Isnt Mulled Wine the Most Disgusting Drink ever?

keith16 · 23-12-2015 09:38PM

bnt wrote: »

The German shops (Aldi & Lidl) have it for sale under the name Glühwein. I think the only real difference is that they might use cardamom instead of nutmeg.

bluewolf wrote: »

Tried it before at a german xmas market, couldn't stand it
Apfelwein though yes pls

What the hell is wrong with you people? Glühwein from a proper Xmas market is an amazing tipple.

bodice ripper · 23-12-2015 09:46PM

What, seriously? No one has mentioned Pernod? It's French for "I'd rather be sober".

Crumpets · 23-12-2015 10:50PM

I was at a few Christmas markets in Germany last year and I'm telling ye, the mulled wine was absolutely gorgeous! We just make a balls of it here

Andy From Sligo · 23-12-2015 11:01PM

Crème de menthe - tastes like Night Nurse!

23-12-2015 11:28PM

Mulled wine is lovely!
I don't know what the most rotten drink ever is but sambuca is surely a contender. *shudder*

wakka12 · 23-12-2015 11:58PM

I didnt know I was in such a minority of people who thought it was a lovely drink? Never even considered it a very acquired taste..

hairyprincess · 24-12-2015 12:05AM

I'm another lover! Hate wine but I love mulled wine. I make a pot of it on Christmas Eve and keep it warm in the slow cooker during Christmas Day. I'm usually the only person who likes to drink it so its all for me!

JupiterKid · 24-12-2015 12:07AM

If made right, mulled wine can be lovely. If made wrong, it can be rank.

24-12-2015 12:08AM

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

honestly what do people like about Mulled Wine? - I have always passed up Mulled wine in the past but I tried a glass the other night for the first time ever. it taste like the worst type of cough medicine ...... heated up!

i wont be drinking any of that ****e ever again!

whats EggNog like?

What most people miss when reading the story Georges marvelous medicine is when the conjecture was heated up

Ask some of them sometime about the difference between GMM2 and GMM3

But tongue out of cheek - a well done mulled wine is one of lifes best pleasures. Suffice to say that you do not want your first one to be from someone elses hand - you need to make it yourself

KatW4 · 24-12-2015 12:10AM

I usually can't stand it but we got some at our work party and it was lovely. Tasted rotten when it was cold though!

fullstop · 24-12-2015 12:12AM

No.

SlowBlowin · 24-12-2015 12:15AM

I would prefer to siphon petrol and get a mouthful.

Cortina_MK_IV · 24-12-2015 12:16AM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

No.

That award goes to root beer. Tastes like the liquid used to clean hospital floors

In the states years back we thought we'd try that root beer that they had in the movies. We sipped it and almost as one said, "TCP," f**king awful stuff.

24-12-2015 12:17AM

bluewolf wrote: »

Tried it before at a german xmas market, couldn't stand it
Apfelwein though yes pls

You are on the right track

24-12-2015 04:07AM

SlowBlowin wrote: »

I would prefer to siphon petrol and get a mouthful.

You really wouldn't though.

Graces7 · 24-12-2015 05:31AM

There has been a bottle of this atop my freezer years now. was given it and just do not fancy it but then I am not a drinker.

pickarooney · 24-12-2015 06:05AM

Sarsi gets my vote.
All the goodness of Deep Heat in a handy 330ml format.

Shenshen · 24-12-2015 08:11AM

I've tried shop-bought mulled wine here once, and will not do that again.

Home-made it's beautiful, though. If you want an extra bit of theatre, check out Feuerzangenbowle!
Looks incredible, tastes amazing and is guaranteed to give you the worst hangover you've ever experienced.

Montgolfier · 24-12-2015 08:28AM

I've had at the xmas markets in Berlin it was -10 degree outside at the market the gluhwein went down lovely. There was red and white gluhwein.

I made some myself after it went down a treat mind you I had a bottle of captain Morgan it

24-12-2015 04:24PM

At our work Christmas party we had a mulled wine reception. I very happily went to get myself a glass and a colleague who'd never had mulled wine before also took a glass. He took one sip, grimaced a bit, and handed me his glass. Two mulled wines before dinner; as good a start to a night as one could hope for!

Montgolfier wrote: »

I've had at the xmas markets in Berlin it was -10 degree outside at the market the gluhwein went down lovely. There was red and white gluhwein.

I made some myself after it went down a treat mind you I had a bottle of captain Morgan it

Didn't know white Gluhwein was a thing! I don't like white wine in general so am not too sure how it would go down with me. Depends what it's mulled with, I guess?

colossus-x · 26-12-2015 08:02PM

I guess it would depend on if you like red wine in the first place. Years ago I hated it now I love it. As for mulled wine I wouldn't fancy more than one glass of it. It's quite rich and hardly something you could drink glass after glass.

Edit: and I'd prefer something you can drink glass after glass.

lisasimpson · 26-12-2015 09:36PM

I like mulled wine but make it yourself, its quite easy to make

Azalea · 26-12-2015 11:29PM

wakka12 wrote: »

I didnt know I was in such a minority of people who thought it was a lovely drink? Never even considered it a very acquired taste..

Same here. Love mulled wine.

yabbav · 26-12-2015 11:33PM

Mulled wine for mugs. Mulled Cider is the way forward if done my way.

Shenshen · 26-12-2015 11:41PM

yabbav wrote: »

Mulled wine for mugs. Mulled Cider is the way forward if done my way.

Ever had mulled mead?

yabbav · 26-12-2015 11:43PM

Shenshen wrote: »

Ever had mulled mead?

go ahead i'll listen to anything. not tried yet.

Arbiter of Good Taste · 26-12-2015 11:47PM

yabbav wrote: »

Mulled wine for mugs. Mulled Cider is the way forward if done my way.

Please elaborate. I'm looking for a good mulled cider recipe

Shenshen · 26-12-2015 11:53PM

yabbav wrote: »

go ahead i'll listen to anything. not tried yet.

Oh, I've no recipe.
I just had it a good few years ago at a medieval Christmas market in Leipzig. You can get mulled anything on a German Christmas market these days - red wine, white wine, apple wine (or cider), mead, non-alcoholic ones, in Bamberg they were even selling a green one.

yabbav · 26-12-2015 11:54PM

1 litre of good Irish craft cider. add between 60-80 ml dark Jamaican run depending on how much you like. 4 cloves, 1 cinnamon stick, 4 crushed cardamon pods, 2 star anise, 8 clementine segments, 8 apple segments cut the same, 40 g muscovado sugar, 2 bay leaf, one vanilla pod cut down centre and grate in 1\4 of a nutmeg. Heat don't boil and serve making sure some fruit and maybe the odd ingredient is in the glass for the look. A cinnamon stick is always nice to pop in the glass.

Don't scrimp on the ingredients as it will be totally different.

Isnt Mulled Wine the Most Disgusting Drink ever?

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