Post #594675 by TorchGuy on Thu, Jun 23, 2011 6:17 AM

Tikifish, someone on another forum reported that he had been given a very expensive bottle of single malt scotch as a birthday gift. While away on business, his (now ex) wife and her sister decided that they wanted to get smashed, and were determined to do it with whiskey and Coke. That was the only whiskey in the house. They drank the entire bottle. With Coke. Ouch.

The "cement mixer" is NOT a drink. It's a nasty prank one plays on someone else. Anyone ever tries handing ME one, I'll hand it back - and not trust any other drink they ever hand me!

Worst drink? There's a bar in Seattle that I used to like (though I rarely went there) called the Hazlewood. Not a tiki bar. They had loads of uncommon liquor and lots of creative and tasty drinks, with the menu leaning toward pre-Prohibition stuff like Sazerac, Horse's Neck, etc. and the tender, a big stocky gal, is always friendly. I usually go to the Zig Zag, and they've turned me from a gin-hater. They do stuff with gin, citrus, St. Germain and I can't even count how many cucumber chunks muddled together... Fantastic! I told the Hazlewood tender, a different person than I usually saw there, to mix me something with Hendrick's gin, cucumber and St. Germain. I watched her mix it, and it contained one thin cucumber slice. It tasted like a glass of Hendrick's on ice. Awful.

I then asked for a rum drink. I asked them what sorts of darker rums they had, and she told me they had...Appleton, I think. I asked for something smokey and rich with that. She made me something that tasted like cheap rum and water - and I SAW her grab well rum. "I asked for Appleton," I said. She told me, "It's in there." It wasn't. It sucked. How badly did these drinks suck?

I can hold my liquor fairly well, and I don't easily get sick by mixing liquors. I felt terribly sick all the rest of the night. Not drunk, just very ill. I haven't been back.

Now, drinks I EXPECTED to suck? NOT COCKTAILS, but... My boyfriend and I were hunting dumpy old California liquor stores for vintage booze, and we randomly ran across some bottles of Thunderbird. And then some Thunderbird T.C., which was apparently Gallo's attempt to make a "higher class" TBird (as if). We decided to buy bottles of all the so-called 'bum wines' and we bought three of each - two for display and one to actually drink, the latter of which went in his fridge for a while. Thunderbird smells like feet. It's sort of palatable while cold, or when mixed with grapefruit juice (see old commercial for TBird "shake 'em up" on YouTube - it's a TBird Brass Monkey!) but let it come up to room temp. and it's bad. Everyone has had MD 20/20 at some high school party, but the "Bling Bling Blue Raspberry" flavor (which has gold bling on the label!!) is VILE. And "wild eye" AKA Wild Irish Rose is absolutely undrinkable - makes the Blue Raz Mad Dog taste like a fine vintage by comparison! Oddly enough, Night Train Express tastes like a nice dessert wine - I'd hate to get drunk on it, though! Incidentally, if anyone can find me a full bottle(s) of the long-discontinued MD 20/20 flavor "Buck Bunny Twisted Licorice" (a Jager knockoff with a literal 'bunny buck' [jackalope] on the label) you'll have my undying gratitude! Man, I loves me some anise but...licorice wine...?? These bottles now comprise the top shelf of my cabinet, intentionally.