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There must be a few Buckfast drinkers here. I’ll start with my findings over the past (nearly) two years since I started drinking it

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You got to be checking your batch numbers man.

Also sampling the difference between British and Irish Bucky.
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Nope, only had it once, when I was 18 or so. A girl took advantage of my incredibly drunken state. Never again.
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I used to drink it all the time :lol:
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I can’t even remember what it tastes like!
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Tastes like port, tried it once, never again..
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I know I started this Fred, but I’ve only ever had a sip to taste it. Very Port/Sherry like. Never drunk it as such. Manky liquid :)
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The name tonic wine "does not imply health giving or medicinal qualities"

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Hasn’t it now been under cut as tramp fuel by Tennets Special?
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If it tastes like port/sherry what's so wrong with it?
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Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:42 pm If it tastes like port/sherry what's so wrong with it?
It does not taste like port/sherry. What port/sherry is to wine, bucky is to TCP. Syrupy and medicinal/industrial.

The thing I didn't know about bucky before I moved to Scotland is that a bottle has more caffine than a vokda red bull. Hence why it's fighting juice.
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Ah! :lol:
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I've never understood why a drink from about as far south as you can go in the UK is popular in Scotchland when you can't find it in most of the area inbetween.
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I've never seen it for sale !

It's strange how it even became a Scottish thing 😃
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It’s cheap and it gets you messed up. I’d bet it used to be available in more places but fell out of fashion, whereas it’s always been popular up here.

Like I say, I used to drink loads of the stuff but I haven’t touched it for years.
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I saw a bottle in my local shop the other day, tempted to give it a whirl. :lol:
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It used to be the highest % alcohol per price you could buy hence the tramp love but I think it has been undercut now.
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It’s more expensive then just getting cheap wine but all the caffeine has it’s own appeal :lol:.

Minimum pricing killed the cheap onion cider market.
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Nefarious wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:39 pm
Swervin_Mervin wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:42 pm If it tastes like port/sherry what's so wrong with it?
It does not taste like port/sherry. What port/sherry is to wine, bucky is to TCP. Syrupy and medicinal/industrial.

The thing I didn't know about bucky before I moved to Scotland is that a bottle has more caffine than a vokda red bull. Hence why it's fighting juice.
Apparently it's the Irish market version that has that much caffeine - same caffeine as a shot of espresso/100ml . The UK version is half that - same as black tea/100ml.

Still :shock:
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its fucking rank.
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