Alcoholic Drinks from yesteryear

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Happily opened the first can around 11 am and following a full days drinkin including the obligatory tour of the pubs and then 2 nightclubs (them were the days!!) with plenty of shots and mad cocktails

went back to the house party and continued with the Oranjeboom even though it’s basically cat p1ss in a can

Some hangover the next day I can vouch for that

Don't think you can really blame the brand of the beer for that one tbh.

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

The little syringe.

That was Bottled Draught Guinness. Or heroin, depending on where you lived, round my way there was both

MyLove4Satan wrote: »

I also recall something called Beo? Or something like that.

Breo

Massive advertising campaign. Looked like a pint glass of Elton Johns phlegm with Barry Manilow's sperm on top.

I wouldn't know but thanks for the expert opinion

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Are you thinking of stiegl? It is massive in Austria, often drank it over there. It’s ok, inoffensive lager

Steiger was mid 80s and had an unusually tall tap like a steel quarter circle. IIRC after a month it was connected to Harp or Carlsberg in the pub I worked in as despite being 10p cheaper, no one drank it. Most bottled beer (Guinness, smith wicks, macardles and various lagers) were sold off the shelf then, very few refrigerated.

L1011 wrote: »

Bottled in Guinness-branded (embossed harp) pint bottles at one stage in my drinking lifetime (albeit very, very early in it).

Carlsberg Export had a few goes as being a "premium" lager here actually, silver cans, 5%, presumably the same product as is sold as just Carlsberg/Hof in Denmark.

Mid 80s, a common glass bottle was used for all Guinness brewed/bottled products. They were sent back for washing and relabelling along with refilling. You could mix and match the bottles as long as you didn’t include any Stag bottles which had to be crated separately as they had a more intense process to remove the gold foil before reusing. I find it funny that all bottles are sent off for recycling rather than reusing these days.

Ashbourne hoop wrote: »

Yes. Had impressive TV ads as I recall, but never drank it, bit before my time (drinking wise).

The ad was an electrician in Las Vagas afair. I drank it but can't remember much about it, would have been late 70's or very early 80's.

So true ... when I used to be out in pubs and hotel bars years back you would see the crowd trying to get after hours drinks esp in the hotel bars from night porters ... if someone mixed up urine and left over vodka from someone else's glass they'd settle for it !!

Some awful forms of booze have existed ... Orchard thieves and other such sickly sweet stuff is proof it still does ....

Poteen. The neighbour stopped making it. Other than that Furstenberg ( which was lovely ) , baby sham , a girls drink and Jager bombs.

Anyone remember a brand of cider called Ma Pucker? Label had a badly drawn picture of a stereotypical granny standing in an orchard holding a pitchfork. Only came across it once, mid 90s.

The alco pops of the late 90s/early 00s- Woodies (?), Bacardi breezer, Smirnoff ice…I’m sure there was plenty more I can’t think of

I've asked this in another thread, but here seems to be more activity here.

Does anyone remember a pint bottle similar to Bulmers, called Irish Knights, or Knights Irish Cider.

Came out around 98/99 I think, didn't last long. I remember my local clearing them 2 for 1 around then.

Also Coors (not Lite) an amber coloured can, used to buy them in Dunnes late 90s early 00s. Was about 5%

Wine!

A light German white wine.

This modern version might still be on the shelves gathering dust somewhere but is different to the 1970s one.

If you want an approximation of what the 1970s one was like, look for Liebfraumilch in LIDL or ALDI which is semi sweet.

And on offer to beat the January blues :)

Kaliber.......non alcoholic piss in a bottle

Is Fosters still popular at all? I remember (as a kid) the Crocodile Dundee ads with Paul hogan! Which goes to show the power of advertising

I tried it once. It was muck. Put me off non alcoholic beers for years.

But over here in germany there's some really great non alcoholic beers now. I keep a load of them in the fridge during summer so I can have one at lunch (I work from home here). On a scalding hot day they're lovely.