The worst tasting liquor I've tasted!

Being Greek, I must say the following:
1. Ouzo, hands down, is the worst tasting excuse for a drink that ever existed.
2. Before Pasteur and germ theory came out, we found out that rosin kept the wine from turning to vinegar. Hence retsina.
3. The absolute best, though, is Metaxa brandy.
 
I did find a new one that was pretty good. It's called "Birddog" and is blackberry whiskey. Not flavored, but actually made from blackberrys. (possibly I'm confused about this last part, as my investigatory skills rapidly diminished) I will investigate further.
 
The absolutely worst I ever had was Unicum, the national drink of Hungary. Medicinal and disgusting. Comes is a little round black bottle. If you ever are offered any, run.
 
george minze said:
Absinthe !!!!!! O my God I tried it once due to an article in a a gun mag of all places...Had to go to a liquer store that has every thing. Bad mistake Obie the guy who owned the store said he can't sell it but he had a bottle in back opened and old...Being the dumb butt I can be on accassion I tried a sip.....Bad, Bad, Bad mistake....Who drinks this stuff?? I have had Ky. moonshine that was smooth compared to Absinthe. What is that stuff I understand it can not be imported legally, some that is around isn't the same stuff from overseas......I did see Anthoney Bourdan the TV chef try some in Europe and it even made him wether and growl.
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It actually is supposed to be poured into a glass, then cold water with a suger cube strained through this slotted spoon thing and turns kind of milky green. It is extracted from wormwood, which is an herb with some toxic components in it. It has been used for years as medicine. The old stuff was not properly processed to rid the toxins, hence it was illegal here in the US. But now it is available for any willing adult at the local liquor store. It isn't like being drunk per se, or at least not in the whiskey/tequila/vodka type of drunk you'd expect because it is like 45 proof or something.

My wife yelled at me one night because I was peeing off of the upstairs balcony onto the living room couch. The absinthe had me take a left instead of a right and I thought I was in the restroom... Can't say that ever happened while drinking beer or vodka. Not even Jaegermiester... Proceed with caution with the absinthe.:eek:
 
For me it was BeefEater. That is some nasty stuff. I cannot believe people buy it!

James
 
THEEE WORSE - By far
Drink a 5th of Sloe Gin -
Then remove it from your stomach into into your toilet or a bush, a ditch, under a table, or what ever's handy.
Now try to drink some again :(

Tequila works the same way - In case you were wondering.
 
Absinthe is way over 100 proof. Maybe your bottle was 45%. The stuff here in the states is made from southern or "baby" wormwood. Customers that had the real stuff in Europe told me it is entirely different in taste and effect. I don't know. I was never offered the real stuff and never drank the legal stuff because I saw what it did to people. Most who drank it were kids in their early 20's.
 
A friend brought back from Mexico a bottle of Aguardiente (sp) which translates to fire water. Burns going down, while it's there, and on it's way out. One shot and I threw the bottle down has hard as I could at him as I felt he was trying to poison me. Nasty stuff. Second worst was a pint of shine brought to the college dorms from a guy from Lexington Kentucky. I dipped my finger in it and it burned. I was afraid to try it so I opened the window (we were on the 2nd story) and poured it out. Unfortunately it landed on a cat sleeping in the bushes. Felt bad because it took the hair off the cat and he screamed something horrible. One guy who tried to drink it all we found the next morning naked sleeping about 20 ft up in a tree. We had to call the Fire Dept. to get him down before he woke up.
 
george minze said:
Absinthe !!!!!! O my God I tried it once due to an article in a a gun mag of all places...Had to go to a liquer store that has every thing. Bad mistake Obie the guy who owned the store said he can't sell it but he had a bottle in back opened and old...Being the dumb butt I can be on accassion I tried a sip.....Bad, Bad, Bad mistake....Who drinks this stuff?? I have had Ky. moonshine that was smooth compared to Absinthe. What is that stuff I understand it can not be imported legally, some that is around isn't the same stuff from overseas......I did see Anthoney Bourdan the TV chef try some in Europe and it even made him wether and growl.
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"any of the absinthe drinkers try it the way it is meant to be used or just out of the bottle? major difference in taste that way. you can buy the real stuff in europe. made in switzerland and czechoslovakia is the real deal."


You aren't supposed to drink it straight out of the bottle!!! You put some in a glass, then there is this little spoon with a bunch of holes in it that you put over top the glass and place a few sugar cubes on...then slowly drip ice water {cold as you can get it without freezing} down thru the sugar cubes and into the glass of Absinthe. The green Absinthe will turn an opalescent white. Cut roughly in half with ice cold sugar water, then you drink it. The original stuff from Europe back in the day had a halucinogenic compound derived from an herb called wormwood. It dont look anything like wormwood, it is called that because it is so bitter. The sugar was supposed to take away some of the bitter taste. Eventually, they outlawed it because the real stuff really did make you halucinate. The wormwood has now been deleted and it is really nothing more than licorice liquor. It will get you pretty wasted pretty quick though...it's about 140 proof.
 
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In order to graduate tech school in the Air Force in 1967 the four of us had to drink the Msgt's home made wheat wine. Made moonshine seem tame. Something he learned to brew in the orient during WWII and Korea. It was then I knew why the tail gunners had a better chance of taking down a zero by having it fly thru the 50 cal cases than actually hitting one.
 
Way back in the 70's when I was a real drinker I was stationed in Germany. Someone will help me get the name right who lived there. Anyway all the German liquors were ok but we picked up thi Austrian rum in think it was Stroh's 151.(151 proof) It hit your tongue like butterscotch and the rest was pure Hell all the way down. Man we were dumb back then.
 
DeadAye said:
THEEE WORSE - By far
Drink a 5th of Sloe Gin -
Then remove it from your stomach into into your toilet or a bush, a ditch, under a table, or what ever's handy.
Now try to drink some again :(

Tequila works the same way - In case you were wondering.
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Despite getting sick from Tequila I can still manage to drink it in sufficent quantity.:D

Sloe Gin on the other hand, will never pass my lips again. Back in high school (mid 70's) I over-indulged in sloe gin and got so ill that to this day the mere sight of a sloe gin bottle makes me wretch...
 
...that Night Train's a mean wine...

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...in college I drank anything that was put in front of me...with predictable results...

...I'm lucky I survived college...

...now I like good imported beer...and when I feel a sore throat coming on...a shot of 12 year old Chivas Regal...works every time...
 
Jaegermesiter... When I was a lieutenant in Ludwigsburg, we used to go to the bowling alley and get German beer and little bottles of Jagermeister. Stuff tastes like really bad cough syrup.
 
ChuckS1 said:
Jaegermesiter... When I was a lieutenant in Ludwigsburg, we used to go to the bowling alley and get German beer and little bottles of Jagermeister. Stuff tastes like really bad cough syrup.
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Jagermeister is still used as an an example of clever marketing and the gullibility of the average consumer in marketing classes and culinary schools.
The man took a vile tasting tonic popular with bilious old men in Bavaria and Germany and convinced the shot and beer crowd in America that what they were drinking was cool and is a veritable hero among liquor merchants and importers.
He is also the same person who got us to pay top dollar for mediocre vodka by putting it in a tall bottle and calling it Grey Goose. Genius!
 
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Monte Alban Mescal. Tastes like a mixture of gasoline and potting soil. Not to mention the fact it has a friggin' big meal worm preserved in it. Come to think of it, maybe it is formaldehyde and not dirt/gasoline I tasted. Mescal makes even the worst tequila taste top shelf.

The worst excuse for Scotch I ever tasted is Inver House. I guarantee it is made from potato vodka and iodine. Scotch my hairy backside!
 
The two worst I can remember are Akadama wine and Tory whiskey. Both brought to us from the japaneese. Talk about a yellow peril. The wine would make you see things that are not there and the whiskey was just plain nasty. Probably aged for about a day before it hit the retail store. Have to admit that they were both cheap.
 
Ahh! Sun Tory whiskey...Brings back memories of Iwakunie...Can't believe a somewhat normal 19 year old got drunk on that ****...A right of passage I guess.....Along with a few other less than Christian endevors that were waiting for the young and dumb in Japan in the mid 50's to early 60's.....
 
I have to agree with Steamloco. Monte Alban Mezcal is the foulest liquor I ever tried. Tastes like bad tequila with cigarette butts steeped in it. My buddy and cracked a bottle during an epic Big Bend-Mexico trip. About 9/10ths was still there when we got home. This was when we were 19 and would drink anything, even cans of hot Carta Blanca.
 
AHH! Akadama. Yuck. Suntory, ditto. I forgot about them. I have to admit that back when I was a drinker, I liked San Miguel beer. Maybe being on that ship for months at a time had something to do with it.
Oh, and I could never understand the attraction people have to Southern Comfort. YMMV.
 
Mogen David 20/20...aka Mad Dog 20/20. Tastes really bad and makes you crazy drunk.

Drank it two times in college (i'm a slow learner). Woke-up in a closet the the first time. The second time I woke-up in my car in the middle of a soybean field ( i said i was a slow learner). :o

Just the thought of it gives me headache.

Don
 
woodsltc said:
Mogen David 20/20...aka Mad Dog 20/20. Tastes really bad and makes you crazy drunk.

Drank it two times in college (i'm a slow learner). Woke-up in a closet the the first time. The second time I woke-up in my car in the middle of a soybean field ( i said i was a slow learner). :o

Just the thought of it gives me headache.

Don
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Here's some wino trivia for you: Who was Mogen David?
 
Mogen David Strawberry-Kiwi flavored wine. Thought I'd buy some-mix it with some 7 up and voila-cheap wine coolers for the missus at the tailgating party. Wrong!!!!!!!!!!! Stuff was so bad even my then 21 year old son wouldn't drink it!
 
I remember sitting around in my frat house and drinking mezcal out of the bottle with some of my "brothers". I got the worm and spit it out on the table. We lit it on fire and it burned for 45 minutes. The Mezcal wasn't that bad but the smell of that flaming worm still haunts me some 32 years later!
 
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