Defunct Alcoholic Drinks

guitars4you · March 2018

Something got me thinking about old beers and alcoholic drinks that are no longer with us

so just for starters - Baby Sham - Worthing E - Double Diamond and can you remember the old add 'Whitbread Big Head Trophy Bitter the pint that thinks its a quart' ?

And what was the beer in a 'party can' (might have been a smaller can as well) that had a 'fizz' thing in it to make it more like a pint - extra bubbles or something like that

poopot · March 2018

John smiths had a “widget” in the can to add fizz...

Think you can still get babysham, also like to add 20/20 to the list!...

Bridgehouse · March 2018

poopot said:

John smiths had a “widget” in the can to add fizz...

Think you can still get babysham, also like to add 20/20 to the list!...

lol - I think Mark is talking about a Party Seven - probly something for the rather older members

fields5069 · March 2018

20/20 is still around, as is Thunderbird which was my cheap loosener of choice when I was in Uni in the late 80s.

guitars4you · March 2018

Bridgehouse said:

poopot said:

John smiths had a “widget” in the can to add fizz...

Think you can still get babysham, also like to add 20/20 to the list!...

lol - I think Mark is talking about a Party Seven - probly something for the rather older members

both as it happens - it is the 'widget' I was thinking about - is it still with us

And I'd forgotten about 'Party Seven'

Does look like BabyCham is still with us - Not seen light nor day of it for so long

poopot · March 2018

Bridgehouse said:

poopot said:

John smiths had a “widget” in the can to add fizz...

Think you can still get babysham, also like to add 20/20 to the list!...

lol - I think Mark is talking about a Party Seven - probly something for the rather older members

Forgot about party seven!... here’s a question, did john Smiths use “widget” before Apple started to? Wonder how many millennials realise their apps were named by drunks!!!!!

guitars4you · March 2018

fields5069 said:

20/20 is still around, as is Thunderbird which was my cheap loosener of choice when I was in Uni in the late 80s.

Thunderbird wine was lethal - tasted horrible - but okay at a barbie if you've already had a skinful

tone1 · March 2018

Watney’s Red Barrel.... ah, the smell of my 70’s childhood

Emp_Fab · March 2018

Torremolinos... torremolinos....

SimonC · March 2018

Colt 45

As in “You’ll love the malt in a Colt........45”

Guitar_Slinger · March 2018

Around the time my little brother was born, my parents and grandparents would sometimes play cards and have a can of Party Seven on Saturday night. I remember them using a tin opener to get into it and the stuff going everywhere.

Babychamis still around (sparkling perry), only called something else and marketed as halfway between cider and prosecco.

The GnR song Nighttrain was about some cheap American drink and IIRC about 25 years ago, Kerrang or Raw said it was like Thunderbird. In my ignorance, I tried a room temperature bottle. Ewww!

Lately I 've noticed small bottles of Cherry B in kids playgrounds. Somebody at work told me they sell it in Iceland and the kids drink it.

Did anyone ever win a bottle of Pomagne at the school summer fair and drink it on the way home? That wouldn't happen now.

JerkMoans · March 2018

The Lager of Lamot. Refreshment for Barbarians.

munckee · March 2018

guitars4you said:

fields5069 said:

20/20 is still around, as is Thunderbird which was my cheap loosener of choice when I was in Uni in the late 80s.

Thunderbird wine was lethal - tasted horrible - but okay at a barbie if you've already had a skinful

Thunderbird was dead cheap and took just enough time to drink when walking from the offy to the pub when my mates and I were at college. An aperitif if you will...

Roysterdoyster · March 2018

Bezique. 1980's short,very nightclubby/Miami Vice.Quite nice with lemonade if I recall.

fields5069 · March 2018

guitars4you said:

fields5069 said:

20/20 is still around, as is Thunderbird which was my cheap loosener of choice when I was in Uni in the late 80s.

Thunderbird wine was lethal - tasted horrible - but okay at a barbie if you've already had a skinful

Taste was never a parameter I recognised over price. I can't remember what the difference between red and blue was, I think one was stronger.