Defunct Alcoholic Drinks

randella

Guitar_Slinger said:

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!

@Guitar_Slinger - it was actually called 'Night Train'.  Some sort of fortified wine favoured by tramps, apparently.

Not something you'd serve with dinner given the choice.

Phil_aka_Pip

Party Four and Party Seven - good riddance. Always left over on the kitchen worktop at a party along with the obligatory bottles of Cinzano and Martini.

wasn't Guinness the first to use a widget in a can?

poopot

proggy said:

I can remember a lager called Oranjiboom, and I can remember quite liking it.

“It’s a lager not a tune”

Philly_Q

I remember my dad drinking the occasional half of Worthington E or Double Diamond many years ago.  I remember the adverts too.

Rather more recently, thinking of some of the things which I liked for a while, until they disappeared... Moosehead, Molson Dry and Labbatt's Ice.

Do they still make any of the alcopops - Hooch, two Dogs, Smirnoff Ice, Bacardi Breezer etc?  I think WKD is still around.

Guitar_Slinger

@randella from what I've read in biographies, GnR were tramps when they started out, and were probably advised to change the spelling for copyright reasons. Bottoms up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightrain

proggy

poopot said:

proggy said:

I can remember a lager called Oranjiboom, and I can remember quite liking it.

“It’s a lager not a tune”

Well done, I'd forgotten about the advert.

Fretwired

rawk100 said:

Do they still make Boddingtons? 

It's coming back .. the old brewery is being reopened.

PC_Dave

proggy said:

I can remember a lager called Oranjiboom, and I can remember quite liking it.

They sell that in my local. I tried it once, never again!

JerkMoans

Fretwired said:

rawk100 said:

Do they still make Boddingtons? 

It's coming back .. the old brewery is being reopened.

Required refreshment of the Macc Lads.

Jalapeno

Philly_Q said:

Do they still make any of the alcopops - Hooch, two Dogs, Smirnoff Ice, Bacardi Breezer etc?  I think WKD is still around.

Gin & Hooch - breakfast of champions !!!!!!!

randella

Guitar_Slinger said:

@randella from what I've read in biographies, GnR were tramps when they started out, and were probably advised to change the spelling for copyright reasons. Bottoms up! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightrain

Ah yeah, my bad - I wasn't correcting you on the song, I meant the wine!

Tramps about covers it.  Living in a lockup with their gear.  One of my favourite anecdotes was about them 'losing' Izzy.  Apparently no-one had seen him for a couple of days when someone eventually found him passed out round the back of the sofa.

Dangerous crew and no mistake, but their exploits make for good reading

57Deluxe

This was a good draught beer in the 70s and had a really pleasant hoppy note. This and Watneys Mild were the first beers I got a taste for when out for the night with my 50p !

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57Deluxe

proggy said:

I can remember a lager called Oranjiboom, and I can remember quite liking it.

1671 - 2004





(the sound of the clogs on the steps is V V funny!)

Phil_aka_Pip

I googled for "who first used the widget in cans" and got:

Who invented the widget in cans?

In 1969 two Guinness brewers at Guinness's St James's Gate brewery in Dublin, Tony Carey and Sammy Hildebrand, developed a system for producing draught type Guinness from cans or bottles through the discharge of gas from an internal compartment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widget_(beer)

mudslide73

My biggest miss is Tennent's Extra. Very drinkable but still 5%. Tennent's Super is earwax.

I liked Rik's description of the beast from the lager of Lamot commercials as being "a sabre tooth horse" on the Bad News record. 

martinw

Mackesons Stout
Tetleys Bitter Men
Ind Coope pale ale
Harvey's Bristol Cream (tit lotion)
Barbican

SRich

guitars4you said:

rawk100 said:

Do they still make Boddingtons? 

I was trying to think of the brand - all I recall is the sexy Melanie Sykes and 'you want a flake in that luv' 

Nitefly

Low- and no-alcohol beers - disgusting stuff for the most part.

The only one that tasted any good at all was Swan Light, a bitter at I think 1% abv.  I actually managed 2 pints of it one day.

Nitefly

Got my first hangover from a 2-pint bottle of Whitbread Pale Ale, with a rubber stopper like the old Tizer bottles.

Legionreturns

Diamond White... Breakfast of champions