Your Favourite Cheap Tipple?

brianthebard

There's tons of different types of absinthe. I think wormwood is supposed to a key ingredient in some but not all, and supposedly accounts for the trippy effects. Personally I think the huge amount of alcohol is the key. I think (but am not sure) that if you see the absinthe lady on the bottle it should be fairly genuine stuff, they sell 65 or 70% stuff in an offie in Sligo. If you go abroad as you are no doubt aware you can get much stronger stuff.

dSTAR

Wasn't it illegal at one stage?

(Must keep that in mind about the absinthe lady)

Jigsaw

Local Tesco does tin of 500ml Carlsberg for 72p. I think that is pretty good.

When I lived in England there was cheap and nasty red wine that was £1.50 in the local Aldi. When times were hard 3 bottles of that soon got rid of the pain. Of course, I was merely deferring the pain and getting it and then some the next day.

Of course these days I only drink in hotels and drink exclusively Dom P.

jill_valentine

Absinthe tastes absolutely awful, but it makes you feel like the smartest person on earth for a few hours, which is nice.


I don't think the stuff you can get now gives you hallucinations anymore. That's a good thing, because the stuff you can get now is still strong enough to get planets drunk.

Jigsaw

jill_valentine wrote: »

Absinthe tastes absolutely awful, but it makes you feel like the smartest person on earth for a few hours, which is nice.


I don't think the stuff you can get now gives you hallucinations anymore. That's a good thing, because the stuff you can get now is still strong enough to get planets drunk.

Absinthe ruined my New Year's celebrations in 2001. I had an absinthe with every pint of Bud and by 11pm I f*cked off somewhere babbling about about needing to get some Haribo.

I arrived back at the house at 3am with a bag of Haribo, box of eggs and toilet roll and then picked up my guitar and played Placebo covers naked in my living room with a raging boner lurking behind my guitar.

dSTAR

jill_valentine wrote:

Absinthe tastes absolutely awful, but it makes you feel like the smartest person on earth for a few hours...

Jigsaw wrote: »

... picked up my guitar and played Placebo covers naked in my living room with a raging boner lurking behind my guitar.

[Note to self] - must pick up bottle tonight

jill_valentine

Jigsaw wrote: »

I arrived back at the house at 3am with a bag of Haribo, box of eggs and toilet roll and then picked up my guitar and played Placebo covers naked in my living room with a raging boner lurking behind my guitar.

Boner aside, yes, that's about par for the course. I started trying to write a book last time. I was sure I'd have it finished by morning.

It's weird though, Absinthe just divorces your brain from your legs completely. More, it divorces your brain from your brain completely, it's like there's somebody else at the controls. Somebody sexy and awesome though, so it's alright.

brianthebard

dSTAR wrote: »

Wasn't it illegal at one stage?

(Must keep that in mind about the absinthe lady)

In some countries.

The guys above sound like they enjoyed absinthe, I just remember feeling cross eyed drunk.

dSTAR

brianthebard wrote: »

The guys above sound like they enjoyed absinthe, I just remember feeling cross eyed drunk.

Isn't that always the case after a skin full of booze or was it a different kind of buzz?

m@cc@

jill_valentine wrote: »

I love me some Warsteiner.

That's your favourite CHEAP tipple? Aren't you the girl was eating a can of chickpeas for dinner? I can see where your priorities lie.

jill_valentine

Warsteiner is currently 99c a bottle in my local Centra. It's cheaper than milk.

EDIT: Although it's not a very big bottle...

EDIT 2: Do not put Warsteiner on your cereal, not matter how tempting that may sound.

Korvanica

dSTAR wrote: »

Bavaria is cheap and nasty. By the time you get halfway through the can its flat and you get that metallicy taste in your mouth which makes you want to gag.

Put it in a pint glass or drink faster. Problem solved.

Tesco Value Cider, something like €4 for 2 lt or somet, tastes like ... bad, basically undrinkable unless you are already plastered

JoeTheDumber

Druids, 6%, and 6 for €8.

You can get hammered for €8 but try and feed yourself for that. Welcome to the Soviet Union.

hamsterboy

Schofferhoffer..........1.75 a 500ml bottle from Aldi

Class stuff, prefer it to Erdinger

HB

Borneo Fnctn

I love buckfast. It's not cheap anymore though.:mad:
Tuborg is good as well.

helen1506

Baywood White Zinfandel Wine from Lidl DELISHHHHHH........:D

AnonoBoy

FINKBRAU!!!!!!

For the name alone.

Tuborg is still the beer of kings for me.

DenMan

Agree with you on Fink Brau. Love the little bottles. They always make a nice long overdue appearance at Christmas/New Year. Also fond of Bavaria cans and Carlsberg bottles.

truecrippler

Bavaria can be ok... 8 cans for 9 quid in Dunnes

knird evol

JohnCleary

jackpalance wrote: »

I love buckfast. It's not cheap anymore though.:mad:
Tuborg is good as well.

Buy it by the case, save a fortune. Been doing it for over a year now

yupya1

Bavaria is class, but a cheap drunk is white wine mixed with vodka, 1 bottle of each and drunk for the whole night

The Real B-man

murphym7 wrote: »

Totally agree.

Its great just cheap Carlsberg!

Thomas_S_Hunterson

deise gal wrote: »

A friend is on college in St. Pats Drumcondra and the local offie (Cant think of the name)sells vodka for €2 a naggin and €10 for a 1litre! As a student where would you go worng! also it has passed my taste test and i dont like huzzar and only drink Smirnoff!

cheap vodka & Orange Juice pls:D

I don't think that's possible if it's standard strength vodka. The tax would be more than the price.

In an offie near UCD I have seen naggins for about 3 euro, but they were only about 15% if memory serves me correctly.

dSTAR

Buckfast ... more like chuckfast.

I am gagging just thinking about that chocolatey, syrupy taste.

/pukes

hopalong85

bavaria! pravsky and tuborg are ok too. dutch isn't that bad either. actually, cheap beer in general is just a good thing!:)

Browney7

God i love a bit of buckie!!!:D

dSTAR

Its funny that certain European beers that would be considered average in Ireland are much more expensive here because they are 'imported' beers. I must becoming more refined in my old age because I very rarely get on the piss (beer variety) all night preferring to drink a quality bottle of sparkly or cab sav and then have a beer later at a late night bar or club. Sometimes cheap and nasty is the go because it gives me the sh!ts paying $40 for a bottle of wine in a bar or restaurant that tastes no better than a $5 bottle.

mcauley

Jigsaw wrote: »

When I lived in England there was cheap and nasty red wine that was £1.50 in the local Aldi. When times were hard 3 bottles of that soon got rid of the pain. Of course, I was merely deferring the pain and getting it and then some the next day.
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Absinthe ruined my New Year's celebrations in 2001. I had an absinthe with every pint of Bud and by 11pm I f*cked off somewhere babbling about about needing to get some Haribo.
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I arrived back at the house at 3am with a bag of Haribo, box of eggs and toilet roll and then picked up my guitar and played Placebo covers naked in my living room with a raging boner lurking behind my guitar.

Posts of the year there for me

dSTAR

mcauley wrote: »

Posts of the year there for me

Tip of the year for me

* Rushes out to procure said drink