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Whatever happened to After Shock?

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  • #62
    ArchXStanton
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    Collie D wrote: »
    I actually thought they were quite tasty :)

    Pure chemical ****e though I’d imagine full of artificial colouring and preservatives and other muck.

    Do you remember mugshot and woodies, first bottle went down a treat... Anything after that felt like your teeth were rotting in your head


  • #63
    IamtheWalrus
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    It’s noticeable that most of the posts are reminisces of old shot-drinking days. I haven’t read many posts of what today’s aftershock is. Are shots a thing of the past or is it that the youngsters don’t know what aftershock is to be in this thread?


  • #64
    Bill nye
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    It's too bloody expensive. It will be minimum of a fiver a shot in most places


  • #65
    endacl
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    It’s noticeable that most of the posts are reminisces of old shot-drinking days. I haven’t read many posts of what today’s aftershock is. Are shots a thing of the past or is it that the youngsters don’t know what aftershock is to be in this thread?
    It’s Sunday morning. Give them a few hours!


  • #66
    thelostboys23
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    Reati wrote: »
    Anyone remember people making “fatfrog”? Smirnoff ice, blue wicked, bacardi orange mixed.

    When i did bar work it was all the rage.

    A cousin of mine used to drink turbo fat frogs. Was a double vodka in on top of the fat frog...needless to say he was a pig.


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  • #67
    RasTa
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    Bottle of bucky + 6 cans also did the same job


  • #68
    Sofiztikated
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    It’s noticeable that most of the posts are reminisces of old shot-drinking days. I haven’t read many posts of what today’s aftershock is. Are shots a thing of the past or is it that the youngsters don’t know what aftershock is to be in this thread?

    Jaegar or whatever cheap equivalent the pub has in stock.


  • #69
    colm_mcm
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    Muckka wrote: »
    Absinthe was very popular when I lived in Edinburgh in the late 90's

    That stuff was potent and similar to shrooms, I seen some odd things when binging that stuff.

    Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.


  • #70
    road_high
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Its still available. Its just not particularly popular.

    https://molloys.ie/after-shock-red

    The price of it, not wonder that toilet cleaner isn’t as popular as it once was


  • #71
    duffman13
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    Mickey Finns back in the mid noughties seemed to be a bit of a thing! Tasted ****e and did nothing for ya!


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  • #72
    road_high
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    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    It’s noticeable that most of the posts are reminisces of old shot-drinking days. I haven’t read many posts of what today’s aftershock is. Are shots a thing of the past or is it that the youngsters don’t know what aftershock is to be in this thread?

    I’m mid 30s so I was going out in the heyday of AfterShock, fat frogs etc (Aftershots as me parents called them lol).
    I don’t think kids are drinking as much as we did- they’re more focused on exercise, looking good etc. I could be wrong but the kind of binge drinking my peers used get up to isn’t at the same level. You don’t see as many falling around on the streets literally pissed out of their tree (thankfully) and vomit everywhere


  • #73
    begbysback
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    30% vol?

    and they call kids these days snowflakes


  • #74
    road_high
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    DaithiMa wrote: »
    Who can forget Woody's and Mugshot...a staple of many teenagers in the mid 90s

    I vaguely remember Woodys, were they a cheap alco pop in all kinds of flavors?
    Naggings of vodka used be a big thing


  • #75
    L'prof
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    Does nobody drink Green Diesel? Blue Aftershock and Red Bull. It tastes like those old Frosties sweets, very tasty and easy to drink


  • #76
    road_high
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    Girls drink Prosecco a lot now, seems to be the thing. Gin also very mainstream where it wouldn’t have been 15-20 years ago


  • #77
    Adyx
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    blindside88 wrote: »
    Geoff’s in Waterford still sells chartreuse as does Tully’s in Carlow.
    We sell it too. It's mainly a cocktail ingredient these days and it's far too expensive to be used for shots ~ €8 - €10. There is a green Aftershock too, but I can't remember what flavour it is.


    I don't work in the bar as much anymore but I order all the stock and products like WKD and Smirnoff Ice sell f**k all these days. We don't even stock Bacardi Breezer. There's no demand for those kind of drinks anymore apart from West Coast Cooler. It's all gin and cocktails. The first bar I worked in had Huzzar, Gordons, Jameson, Teachers or B&W and then whatever shots. Now we have about 7 vodkas, 25 gins and 40 Irish Whiskies alone.


    It's a completely different market these days.


  • #78
    brianregan09
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    Had 3 or 4 shots of Aftershock at my work xmas party , not fun the next day


  • #79
    worded
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    worded wrote: »
    How many shots approx in a pint?
    .

    Approx


  • #80
    Bill nye
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    worded wrote: »
    Approx

    It'll take you about 13 or so shots to fill a pint glass.


  • #81
    Sardonicat
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    bluewolf wrote: »
    I still see the bottles of it on the bar shelves
    It's true you don't see people ordering it now though. used to be the business in college as well as Chartreuse. Can't get chartreuse anywhere now though
    Chartreuse? Is that the stuff you set on fire? Once in my life. 29 years ago. I barely drank at the time. Was desperately trying to impress someone and down she comes front the bar with 2 flaming glasses. I still regret it.


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  • #82
    brevity
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    gandalf wrote: »
    God I hated Aftershock. Whatever happened to Goldschlager, that used to be the shot of choice during the Celtic Tiger years.

    With the bits of foil that cut your throat so you can get off your tits.

    I’m not allowed that stuff as I get “a bit handsy”


  • #83
    TerrorFirmer
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    duffman13 wrote: »
    Mickey Finns back in the mid noughties seemed to be a bit of a thing! Tasted ****e and did nothing for ya!

    I never understood people paying €4 for a shot of that. It was only something like 12% strength and was really sticky and sugary.

    I did have a fondness for red Aftershock, had a shot of it a while back for nostalgias sake, still pretty good but my shot days are past me.


  • #84
    Ipso
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    Is Jagermeister still on the go?


  • #85
    bodhrandude
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    bazz26 wrote: »
    The most expensive mouthwash you will every drink. :D

    No that would be absinthe. Your not supposed to drink neat you louch it with chilled sparkling water and you make it the strength of a fortified wine. I heard in the Czech Republic its always drunk neat.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • #86
    Mint Sauce
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    Red Aftershocks, Cheery, and Black Sambukas. Ah them were the days nights. Well from what I can remember.

    Anyone else remember the tales that three (aftershocks) would kill you?

    As for Mickey Finns, they were a poor mans version.


  • #87
    freshpopcorn
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    road_high wrote: »
    Gin also very mainstream where it wouldn’t have been 15-20 years ago

    My relatives who'd be older can't get over the gin thing to them gin was always drank by lonely women!


  • #88
    lbc2019
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    freshpopcorn wrote: »
    road_high wrote: »
    Gin also very mainstream where it wouldn’t have been 15-20 years ago

    My relatives who'd be older can't get over the gin thing to them gin was always drank by lonely women!

    Still is! They’ll end up alone!


  • #89
    Sofiztikated
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    Bill nye wrote: »
    It'll take you about 13 or so shots to fill a pint glass.

    16 shots of 35.5ml to fill an imperial pint, which is 568ml, not the wanky US pint, that's only 470 something ml.


  • #90
    nim1bdeh38l2cw
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    Sardonicat wrote: »
    Chartreuse? Is that the stuff you set on fire? Once in my life. 29 years ago. I barely drank at the time. Was desperately trying to impress someone and down she comes front the bar with 2 flaming glasses. I still regret it.

    No, that's Sambuca. Chartreuse is green and tastes exactly like you'd think petrol tastes


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  • #91
    Beechwoodspark
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    Had a shot of the blue aftershock in the Turks head the Friday before Christmas.

    Still the mouthwash flavour. Prefer it to the red.


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