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No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:24 pm
by mik
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
Favourites
Buckfast
Very good ones
Buckfast
Ok ones
Meths
Mouthwash
Rubbish ones
Anti—freeze
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:30 pm
by ZedLeg
You got to be checking your batch numbers man.
Also sampling the difference between British and Irish Bucky.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:36 pm
by Gavin
Nope, only had it once, when I was 18 or so. A girl took advantage of my incredibly drunken state. Never again.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:40 pm
by ZedLeg
I used to drink it all the time
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:48 pm
by Orange Cola
I can’t even remember what it tastes like!
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:50 pm
by Foz
Tastes like port, tried it once, never again..
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:53 pm
by mik
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
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:01 pm
by Foz
The name tonic wine "does not imply health giving or medicinal qualities"
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:30 pm
by Explosive Newt
Hasn’t it now been under cut as tramp fuel by Tennets Special?
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 1:42 pm
by Swervin_Mervin
If it tastes like port/sherry what's so wrong with it?
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:39 pm
by Nefarious
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.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:39 pm
by Swervin_Mervin
Ah!
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:53 pm
by Jimmy Choo
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.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 2:57 pm
by Carlos
I've never seen it for sale !
It's strange how it even became a Scottish thing
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 3:39 pm
by ZedLeg
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.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:12 pm
by duncs500
I saw a bottle in my local shop the other day, tempted to give it a whirl.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:18 pm
by Explosive Newt
It used to be the highest % alcohol per price you could buy hence the tramp love but I think it has been undercut now.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:37 pm
by ZedLeg
It’s more expensive then just getting cheap wine but all the caffeine has it’s own appeal
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Minimum pricing killed the cheap onion cider market.
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 5:54 pm
by Swervin_Mervin
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
Re: No Buckfast thread?
Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2020 6:09 pm
by scotta
its fucking rank.
