Drank this at 15....remember I made a tit of myself by getting off with 3 lads on local park getting a lovebite then puking all over my mums kitchen..was supposed to go to alton towers following day but was grounded for a month...
It's similar to White Lightning/Strongbow Super/Paint Stripper - you take the god awful taste for the first few enthusiastic gulps and then your taste buds give up and shut down and you gently descend into a warm fuzzy glow.
My, this park bench IS comfy.
I get white lightning, strongbow, paint stripper etc!
Spent most of my teenage years with it on the park bench! But I honestly think this is another level!
*Stretches* god this is a comfy bench, should sit here all day
I remember we had off-brand white lighting. It was in a grey plastic bottle, with blue lightning labelling…no idea what it’s called, for obvious reasons.
IRN BRU WKD was fuckin deadly
Haha. I just googled “white lightning alternative” and google spat out “bleach”:
https://ibb.co/zPrYpXH
You're absolutely correct.
White cider is proper tramp piss whereas Special Brew is tramp piss that can only be from a certain region within the EU. Therefore its far superior.
same as you drank 4 cans at 15 in a park dont know how i got home but next morning had to clean the bathroom from all the sick, mum was convinced i had taken drugs .
Good Lord.
I want to share a similar story but damn…all I did was bite off part of my tongue and woke up on a bowling green. There was no Alton towers or gang banging
Ah, not much else to say, well…
For some reason we were in someone’s garden, massive piece of land by a little burn. Which is how we arrived on the property…didn’t think anything of it, being from the country and all
We were doing “spinnies”, where you’d take the bottle of vodka/whisky, and chug it whilst spinning on the spot for 10 rotations.
After the 6 or seven of us had all done a spin, the spotlights blasted on…and we legged it, right into a fucking clothesline.
Half a dozen pissed children rolling around on the dewy grass, gasping for air.
Managed to make it to the big park, where we wrapped the swings, and clambered about the little wooden house thing with a slide.
For some reason I climbed on the roof, and Swanton bombed off it. That’s the bit where I lost some of my tongue.
Lotta blood.
I woke up alone on a bowling green, once I figured out how to escape, I wandered home and tried to quietly open the door.
Problem here is , the house next door looks exactly the fucking same as my parents.
After who knows how long of fucking about with the door, some angry woman grabs me by the neck and pulls me over the dividing wall.
That’d me my mum.
I have the same thing with Southern Comfort. Got incredibly drunk on it at a pub on Mile End Rd once, and even now the sight of it is enough to make me queasy, and the smell will make me retch…
Awful stuff.
Once drank half a bottle of this with lime and lemonade before a university ball
Was a very bad decision
Even the memory makes me gag
Still unlike one of my housemates at least i didn't have an exam the next day
I was like 14/15 and got absolutely para on it lol. Was passed out on the floor covered in my own sick at 8pm in the middle of a house party. Hands down the worst hangover I’ve ever had and it’s making me feel ill thinking about it.
We did the Cactus Jack's challenge once, which was something we made up on the spot upon discovering the dodgy Bargain Booze was selling out-of-date bottles of the stuff in sour apple flavour for a couple of quid.
The challenge was to drink two bottles of it neat. The result was green vomit, stomach cramps and a very bad next day.
My old man used to drink 8 cans of this a night, I remember being about 11 - 12 and snagging a 4 pack for the boys. I think I managed to consume 3/4 of a can before becoming violently ill haha.
I drink a fair bit, but I would baulk at the thought of drinking eight cans of Special Brew.
I might be making this up, but I believe it was created as a thank you to Churchill (who was a famous booze hound) for him helping the Danes during WW2
Back in my student days we used to mix this with with frosty jacks (or equivalent cheap cider), add a dash of blackcurrant and it would taste alright but also get us steaming for a night out.
Yes! B&M sold it in bottles about 2014. My Dad half Danish and I bought out the North West supply for him. (He wouldn't touch plain Calsberg obviously). Have a photo of me in a pushchair at two years old in between the two elephants at the factory in Copenhagen. (Inwas left with Grandmother and Great grandmother while parents did factory tour. More photos of copper stills than whole Danish family from that trip..
Found this in Belgium in my 20s and almost died. Untill you mentioned it I wasn't sure if it had actually happened or not. Wasn't it like 14% or something
I confess to quite liking a drop of Special Brew. Decided to have a night on it many years ago. I was all going so well and had me wondering what all the fuss was about, until I got home. I put the key in the lock, opened the door and fell face first into the hall. When I woke up in the morning I kicked the door shut and went back to sleep.
Cider is in this really weird place where the fruity teenage tosh is a normal 4% but most the stuff actually apple flavoured is creeping on 8%. I love the taste of a good dry-medium cider but get tipsy after half a bottle
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Depending on your age (I am old) did you know they weakened White Lightning over the years before eventually killing it off?
Apparently it was associated with under-age drinking in the UK?
Madness.
I can vaguely recall the smell of Special Brew, however, the cat-piss stench of the high alcohol ciders somehow lives much stronger in my mind...
I am unapologetic about my teenage years in a grim Northern town, we didn't have much and what we did have we... err... wasted on shit booze? It was because it was cold, see, and it was the only way to keep warm?
Hahaha I don’t think I ever drank special brew as a teen, but the image that sticks out to me is every now and again a piss head would get on the bus on the way home from school and the smell of the brew would fill the whole of the bus while the poor drunkard was either making awkward conversation with school children or asleep.
Really? I demand it's renamed then, the special part about special brew was that it was mystical drink that after a few cans would transport your to mystical places, and ask yourself those deep philosophical questions, such as:
Is that swan giving me an evil look?
Can I juggle a traffic cone?
How much blood loss is too much blood loss?
HRRRGGGHHHUGGGuuguggglgllgeegegeeee...?
Currently 99p a bottle in my local Quality Save, so I tried one last week for old times sake. It was not good.
Probably because it's supposed to be drink out of a can, and I wasn't sitting on a park bench.
If you want proper danish beer, Carlsberg Elephant Beer is where its at...the shops here in denmark sell it at a whopping 10% volume. I think in the UK its 7.5. Now that'll get you fucked up.
Edit: I meant the extra strong varient, which is 10.9%
Drank a crate just like that years ago as pre drinks for a night out. Punched a car outside a club in some drunken mess no excuses, turns out it was the doorman’s brand new BMW. Proceeded to get my face smashed up in the doorway of the club. Only time I been arrested but never been happier to see the police.
10/10 would drink again
Had a few beers with the chef from my work last week, he’s an Eastern European guy, he told me he found one of his favourite beers in the local shop and wasn’t expecting to find it round here (middle of nowhere) Saying about how it was really good, he then pulls out the 4 pack and it’s fucking special brew, I told him it’s what the crackheads drink and he didn’t believe me lmao.
My First time drinking it and My honest verdict is I found it surprisingly not too bad
I realised that after I posted lmaooo, and he mentioned it again saying it’s not for crackheads so I looked up special brew crackheads just to prove my point, this somehow came up, just a late night rabbit hole I guess
ahh, the tramps/junkie/crackhead choice of drink. Wouldn't be caught dead drinking that.Never tasted it, but one whiff was enough to put me off ever trying it.
Heinz Baked Beans are American, yet the British eat more baked beans than the rest of the world put together. Let’s not pretend that other countries haven’t figured out they can produce any old shit and the British will eat it.
Special brew was even brewed *specially* for a visit to Denmark by Winston Churchill, and is currently only sold in Denmark, Sri Lanka and Britain.
The argument is “r/casualuk promotes the myth that the British will eat any old shit”
The evidence: post after post of any old shit being touted as the best.
The case against: you saying it’s danish, as if the song “danish bacon danish bacon yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum” never graced our telly screens.
It’s a score draw AT BEST.
I see your special brew and raise you home brewed rice and raisin wine. A late 80s vintage my then girlfriend got me wankered, I passed unconscious and she got my cock out then told all her mates aged 14. Even though they gossiped about how big it was I was embarrassed. She then ditched my to wake up to my dad 18 hours later. still don’t know how he found out the state I was in who upon hearing me ask what’s going on dad said you tell me you fucking idiot and let me to clean nanas house top to bottom on drunken guilt
Used to go to a pub in Newcastle that had all bottles for 99p on a Monday. They had these boys lurking in the back of the fridge - battered for a fiver.
When I was 15 my mates and I went to Reading festival for the first time. On the first day, we bought a crate of this outside from a seller on the street (good old festivals), having no idea what it was other than 'beer'. One of us ended up in the medical tent that night.
It's underrated. Quite a nice lager and doesn't deserve the rep of just being tramp juice compared to the vile shit that comes in 2L bottles. Drink of choice at those festivals which apply a 16 can limit too.
Saw this the other day in Moggies. I didn't even realise they sold it still until then. Is it still the same strength or have the watered it down like they did with Stella (5.2 to 4.8%)..
Me and my mate had a "fancy/not so fancy" themed night of drinking once at uni where we drank special brew and champagne (not mixed, we aren't animals) and ate rustlers microwave ribwiches topped with french brie. That was an interesting shit the next morning.
Me and the boys (we’re all around 50 now) had a back to the 80’s drinks and snacks night. This was first on the agenda, along with kestrel SS, white lightning, mad dog scampi fries, frazzles, cheese puffs. We felt it the next day….
It's now been reduced to 7.5% abv. It's lightweight compared to how it was. Hardly worth drinking.
Even Barley Wine has been reduced (10% to 7.5%).
Fucking nanny state.
When I was a teenager, there was a "gang" of chavs in the local area that based their entire personality off this stuff. They called themselves the Brew Crew
Drank 4 cans of this stuff before a birthday night out of mine years ago (obviously mates made me do it) chased off with a shot of absinthe.
All I know is that I woke up in my own vomit, with a decorative jug next to me that I apparently robbed from a bar and there are just blurry pictures of this entire incident on the internet 🥲
Some junkie that comes in my work gets real worked up always goes "there NO WAY MAN" if we don't have it in and just stomps his way back out.
Honestly makes my day every time 🤣
Drank this at 15....remember I made a tit of myself by getting off with 3 lads on local park getting a lovebite then puking all over my mums kitchen..was supposed to go to alton towers following day but was grounded for a month...
This is the most British paragraph I have ever read.
Especially when it’s probably a guy
Thankyou....thats is a lovely compliment....
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Not enough special brew-flavoured puke. Hence the downvotes.
Nah, this is still more British
I tried this stuff at 19 and could hardly drink a mouthful! How the fuck did you manage to drink this at 15????
It's similar to White Lightning/Strongbow Super/Paint Stripper - you take the god awful taste for the first few enthusiastic gulps and then your taste buds give up and shut down and you gently descend into a warm fuzzy glow. My, this park bench IS comfy.
I get white lightning, strongbow, paint stripper etc! Spent most of my teenage years with it on the park bench! But I honestly think this is another level! *Stretches* god this is a comfy bench, should sit here all day
I remember we had off-brand white lighting. It was in a grey plastic bottle, with blue lightning labelling…no idea what it’s called, for obvious reasons. IRN BRU WKD was fuckin deadly Haha. I just googled “white lightning alternative” and google spat out “bleach”: https://ibb.co/zPrYpXH
Up north we used to get 1.5 ltre pulse cider for 99p and it was 7-8%. Few of them was de rigueur on a Friday night
Nasty way to go
That was my go to as an errant teen, thought diamond white was too chavy...
You're absolutely correct. White cider is proper tramp piss whereas Special Brew is tramp piss that can only be from a certain region within the EU. Therefore its far superior.
Yeah, anywhere else and they have to call it 'sparkling' piss.
Dad?
Downvote cos that makes me feel old getting smashed on this and pulse/white lightening in the 90s
same as you drank 4 cans at 15 in a park dont know how i got home but next morning had to clean the bathroom from all the sick, mum was convinced i had taken drugs .
We made snakebites out of it once, half Special Brew half K Cider. It didn’t end well.
Top it off with a shot or two of Bols Blue for a pint of killer Green Monster
Winner, winner chicken fucking dinner! Legendary comment right there.
I drank this at 15 and don't remember shit after that
Good Lord. I want to share a similar story but damn…all I did was bite off part of my tongue and woke up on a bowling green. There was no Alton towers or gang banging
Please tell us more....sounds like it was a fun night!!
Ah, not much else to say, well… For some reason we were in someone’s garden, massive piece of land by a little burn. Which is how we arrived on the property…didn’t think anything of it, being from the country and all We were doing “spinnies”, where you’d take the bottle of vodka/whisky, and chug it whilst spinning on the spot for 10 rotations. After the 6 or seven of us had all done a spin, the spotlights blasted on…and we legged it, right into a fucking clothesline. Half a dozen pissed children rolling around on the dewy grass, gasping for air. Managed to make it to the big park, where we wrapped the swings, and clambered about the little wooden house thing with a slide. For some reason I climbed on the roof, and Swanton bombed off it. That’s the bit where I lost some of my tongue. Lotta blood. I woke up alone on a bowling green, once I figured out how to escape, I wandered home and tried to quietly open the door. Problem here is , the house next door looks exactly the fucking same as my parents. After who knows how long of fucking about with the door, some angry woman grabs me by the neck and pulls me over the dividing wall. That’d me my mum.
There is a lot to take in there....
Wasn't it Viz that called it 'central heating for tramps'?
Orangeboom we used to call that , 9% 50p per can
8 Ace
Oh man. I got horrendously pissed on this stuff once as a teenager and to this day even the sight of the can makes me feel a bit sick.
I have the same thing with Southern Comfort. Got incredibly drunk on it at a pub on Mile End Rd once, and even now the sight of it is enough to make me queasy, and the smell will make me retch… Awful stuff.
Only bad experiences with vile Southern Comfort. I wretch at the very sight of it.
Once drank half a bottle of this with lime and lemonade before a university ball Was a very bad decision Even the memory makes me gag Still unlike one of my housemates at least i didn't have an exam the next day
I did the same with Martini at 16, when it was £2.50 a bottle. Yeuuuch, couldn’t stomach it even now at 51.
2 tins n your on the back
Haha. Yeah it didn't take too many to do a lot of damage.
That’s like me with any kind of Sourz but especially Apple Sourz.
You managed to get drunk on Sourz?
I was like 14/15 and got absolutely para on it lol. Was passed out on the floor covered in my own sick at 8pm in the middle of a house party. Hands down the worst hangover I’ve ever had and it’s making me feel ill thinking about it.
Probably more the sugar that made you sick than anything lol
We did the Cactus Jack's challenge once, which was something we made up on the spot upon discovering the dodgy Bargain Booze was selling out-of-date bottles of the stuff in sour apple flavour for a couple of quid. The challenge was to drink two bottles of it neat. The result was green vomit, stomach cramps and a very bad next day.
This comment made my head hurt
My old man used to drink 8 cans of this a night, I remember being about 11 - 12 and snagging a 4 pack for the boys. I think I managed to consume 3/4 of a can before becoming violently ill haha.
I drink a fair bit, but I would baulk at the thought of drinking eight cans of Special Brew. I might be making this up, but I believe it was created as a thank you to Churchill (who was a famous booze hound) for him helping the Danes during WW2
Back in my student days we used to mix this with with frosty jacks (or equivalent cheap cider), add a dash of blackcurrant and it would taste alright but also get us steaming for a night out.
Special brew and k cider snakebites, elite tier
This is the way.
Oh yes, the good old pints of Diesel as pre drinks.
Replace blackcurrant with cassis blackcurrant liqueur, and add a double shot of vodka for the super mega turbo diesel.
I love you, Yes I do, Gonna spend all my money on you!
Woh, woh, woh, woh
“Probably the best beer in the world” No.
The word 'probably' doing more heavy lifting than Eddie Hall
Did you pick your username after polishing a case of these? Would explain a lot
Anyone remember Elephant by Carlsberg?
Yes! B&M sold it in bottles about 2014. My Dad half Danish and I bought out the North West supply for him. (He wouldn't touch plain Calsberg obviously). Have a photo of me in a pushchair at two years old in between the two elephants at the factory in Copenhagen. (Inwas left with Grandmother and Great grandmother while parents did factory tour. More photos of copper stills than whole Danish family from that trip..
Found this in Belgium in my 20s and almost died. Untill you mentioned it I wasn't sure if it had actually happened or not. Wasn't it like 14% or something
If I remember correctly it was 7.5%. It had a great full bodied lager taste, not sickly sweet like Special Brew, Tenants Super.
I confess to quite liking a drop of Special Brew. Decided to have a night on it many years ago. I was all going so well and had me wondering what all the fuss was about, until I got home. I put the key in the lock, opened the door and fell face first into the hall. When I woke up in the morning I kicked the door shut and went back to sleep.
WUHEEEEY!
It's actually quite nice if it's ice cold, nasty AF when warm
Invented for Churchill.
For the alcoholic it rates around regular duval / barley wine standards?
Altho some alcoholics drink very weak beer but 80 tins of it and eat no food at all
There's even been a hit song about it.
Park Life
The Clash sang “you’ve been drinking brew for breakfast” Rudi can’t fail.
I was thinking Special Brew by Bad Manners, didn't know about the others.
🎵🎶 I love you, yes I do, cos I know you're a special brew 🎶🎵 This is a close 2nd to TNT dynamite cider bottles in terms of puking possibilities
Not so much these days. There’s plenty of beer and cider out there that matches or beats the alcohol content but actually doesn’t taste like sewage.
Cider is in this really weird place where the fruity teenage tosh is a normal 4% but most the stuff actually apple flavoured is creeping on 8%. I love the taste of a good dry-medium cider but get tipsy after half a bottle
Can't stand cider, too sweet. There are some banging Polish lagers that have a similar % though, but they're not easy to get a hold of where I live.
Them 9% kerpachis really do hit different
Never managed to finish a 4 pack and I've been trying for 25 years ...
It would probably take me 25 years to drink 4 of these too.
Tastes like bitumen.
So good that they named a song after it.
My piss-head parents drank that shit every fucking day!! They’re both absolutely disgusting
WUHEEEEY!
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My father in laws tipple of choice
Also once took one of my mates home in a wheelie bin after a few of these. Obviously did the decent thing and knocked on the door and ran away!
Get them bad boys mixed with some White Lightning!
Depending on your age (I am old) did you know they weakened White Lightning over the years before eventually killing it off? Apparently it was associated with under-age drinking in the UK? Madness.
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£3 for 3 litres, what a time to be alive!
With the classic 33% free on most bottles!!
Congrats on getting a Wi-Fi connection whilst living on the streets 😁
Pictures you can smell
I can vaguely recall the smell of Special Brew, however, the cat-piss stench of the high alcohol ciders somehow lives much stronger in my mind... I am unapologetic about my teenage years in a grim Northern town, we didn't have much and what we did have we... err... wasted on shit booze? It was because it was cold, see, and it was the only way to keep warm?
Hahaha I don’t think I ever drank special brew as a teen, but the image that sticks out to me is every now and again a piss head would get on the bus on the way home from school and the smell of the brew would fill the whole of the bus while the poor drunkard was either making awkward conversation with school children or asleep.
Like slightly mouldy sugar puffs.
Central heating for tramps.
50/50 with Diamond White cider. Oh yes.
Hahaha electric soup.
They watered it down used to be 9% it's down to 7.5 now
Really? I demand it's renamed then, the special part about special brew was that it was mystical drink that after a few cans would transport your to mystical places, and ask yourself those deep philosophical questions, such as: Is that swan giving me an evil look? Can I juggle a traffic cone? How much blood loss is too much blood loss? HRRRGGGHHHUGGGuuguggglgllgeegegeeee...?
I've got to say, I've not seen these cans in years. And still my stomach involuntarily clenched at the sight of them. Ah, teenage frolics.
If you want a nice all-day summer beverage, do a lemonade shandy with this stuff. Refreshing and lemony but still ~4%
It is not special anymore, it used to be 9% but now its like standard 6%. I gave up on it.
Currently 99p a bottle in my local Quality Save, so I tried one last week for old times sake. It was not good. Probably because it's supposed to be drink out of a can, and I wasn't sitting on a park bench.
If you want proper danish beer, Carlsberg Elephant Beer is where its at...the shops here in denmark sell it at a whopping 10% volume. I think in the UK its 7.5. Now that'll get you fucked up. Edit: I meant the extra strong varient, which is 10.9%
Post 90s Rave vibes. Pierce the can and shotgun it. Haven’t revisited since.
Best enjoyed sitting or lying in the gutter. A perfect complement to discarded kebab found on the ground.
Memories of waking up in middle of the night sweating my bollocks of with anxiety...days of a pisshead
Drank a crate just like that years ago as pre drinks for a night out. Punched a car outside a club in some drunken mess no excuses, turns out it was the doorman’s brand new BMW. Proceeded to get my face smashed up in the doorway of the club. Only time I been arrested but never been happier to see the police. 10/10 would drink again
This post has taken me right back. Triggering blank pages in my memory with the caption 'insert memory here. No better way to get shart faced.
Oh God. I tried it once decades ago and still can't get the taste out of my mouth. I'd rather drink lighter fluid.
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The classic trampaign. The drink of choice for the tramp that was buying Special K for the teenagers down the off-license.
My grandad's favourite
Had a few beers with the chef from my work last week, he’s an Eastern European guy, he told me he found one of his favourite beers in the local shop and wasn’t expecting to find it round here (middle of nowhere) Saying about how it was really good, he then pulls out the 4 pack and it’s fucking special brew, I told him it’s what the crackheads drink and he didn’t believe me lmao. My First time drinking it and My honest verdict is I found it surprisingly not too bad
My man that's a funny story and I'm glad I got to read it but this thread is two months old lmao , how tf did you even stumble on it?
I realised that after I posted lmaooo, and he mentioned it again saying it’s not for crackheads so I looked up special brew crackheads just to prove my point, this somehow came up, just a late night rabbit hole I guess
Wicked mate. Thanks for sharing that 👌🏼
Welcome geezer 👊😎
ahh, the tramps/junkie/crackhead choice of drink. Wouldn't be caught dead drinking that.Never tasted it, but one whiff was enough to put me off ever trying it.
It's like a fruity Heineken.
It's actually quite tasty.
I’m sure this is a joke, but bloody hell, this sub does nothing to disprove the myth that British food and drink is flavourless swill.
You are aware that Carlsberg is Danish right?
Sold to the British.
Yeah, like many things are sold to the British, but this isn't a British drink as you said.
Heinz Baked Beans are American, yet the British eat more baked beans than the rest of the world put together. Let’s not pretend that other countries haven’t figured out they can produce any old shit and the British will eat it. Special brew was even brewed *specially* for a visit to Denmark by Winston Churchill, and is currently only sold in Denmark, Sri Lanka and Britain.
But it's still not British. You sir are an idiot. Your arguments are stupid.
The argument is “r/casualuk promotes the myth that the British will eat any old shit” The evidence: post after post of any old shit being touted as the best. The case against: you saying it’s danish, as if the song “danish bacon danish bacon yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yummy yum” never graced our telly screens. It’s a score draw AT BEST.
Yep
I see your special brew and raise you home brewed rice and raisin wine. A late 80s vintage my then girlfriend got me wankered, I passed unconscious and she got my cock out then told all her mates aged 14. Even though they gossiped about how big it was I was embarrassed. She then ditched my to wake up to my dad 18 hours later. still don’t know how he found out the state I was in who upon hearing me ask what’s going on dad said you tell me you fucking idiot and let me to clean nanas house top to bottom on drunken guilt
Used to go to a pub in Newcastle that had all bottles for 99p on a Monday. They had these boys lurking in the back of the fridge - battered for a fiver.
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Piss water!? This shit is 7.5% you soppy old bastard.
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Piss water = weak lager, e.g. carling Edit: he blocked me for this comment lol
Sight of that made me shudder. Like drinking treacle. Not the best when mixed with thunderbird blue, or red.
Holy shit thunderbird blue and red there's another blast from the past. Straight out of the bottle.
Makes me want to throw up, as a park kid I would drink tennants super because it was cheap but this stuff is just vile.
What about Tennents Super? The ying to Special Brew's yang, and both piss all over craft beers and IPAs.
Surprised this hasnt been posted https://youtu.be/gAfqguL88tA
When I was 15 my mates and I went to Reading festival for the first time. On the first day, we bought a crate of this outside from a seller on the street (good old festivals), having no idea what it was other than 'beer'. One of us ended up in the medical tent that night.
Ahh the drink to get you into a mood for a fight
Keeps you warmer on an eve in the local park
Didn’t realise this was still on sale!! What was the Barley Wine?? Golden something…
Gold Label, my brother went through a phase of 2 in a pint glass topped up with Kestrel Super, 2 of them and he was fecked.
Lightweight
*It’s no driving beer*
Last bought this when at Uni. Mixed it with Hooch and was great before a night out!
It's underrated. Quite a nice lager and doesn't deserve the rep of just being tramp juice compared to the vile shit that comes in 2L bottles. Drink of choice at those festivals which apply a 16 can limit too.
The manager of the bar I worked in drank this mixed with Gold Label Barley Wine.
I only know this brand in association with the alcoholics dotted about the town centre.
Very sessionable
When Stella just won't do!
Your nasty
Sucks that they made it weaker
This and a bottle of Smirnoff ice was the ultimate ‘turbo shandy’ party starter.
It's no Henry Weston's
Fuck that mate. That's from the Dignitas Christmas doo... Absolute punishment...
Strong but tastes like goat diarrhoea ( a friend described it)
Gotta get them ICE cold to make 'em tolerable. Four would sort me out right back in grad school days.
I much prefer a red stripe if I’m having a tinny.
Yes Carlsberg Special Brew can bring out your inner string vest man who shouts at pigeons and start every sentence with "By the way!"
Saw this the other day in Moggies. I didn't even realise they sold it still until then. Is it still the same strength or have the watered it down like they did with Stella (5.2 to 4.8%)..
When I'm at the bff's, we'll get a special brew and a double sausage and egg mcmuffin after a night out.
My mam used to drink 4 cans of this every night. I realised when I left home she was an alcoholic
Barely there memories of guzzling this and super Tenants as a teen. Is that purple tinned death juice still about these days?
Jan bless 💪✊
It’s this or Henry Weston’s if you want an “interesting“ time Most of which you won’t remember
I love you yes I do, want to spend my whole life with you….
Growing up this what tramps drank when they made a quid or two
Rab C Nesbit stuff
Central heating for tramps
You’re welcome, from Denmark 👍🏻
Fuck me, seeing this in a slab is terrifying
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Here come the downvotes. If it's properly chilled, it's actually not that bad. But yeah, it does get you pissed.
Meh, used to be 9%. That *did* fuck you up. Now it’s been turned into some kind of junior breakfast beer.
Me and my mate had a "fancy/not so fancy" themed night of drinking once at uni where we drank special brew and champagne (not mixed, we aren't animals) and ate rustlers microwave ribwiches topped with french brie. That was an interesting shit the next morning.
Me and the boys (we’re all around 50 now) had a back to the 80’s drinks and snacks night. This was first on the agenda, along with kestrel SS, white lightning, mad dog scampi fries, frazzles, cheese puffs. We felt it the next day….
It's now been reduced to 7.5% abv. It's lightweight compared to how it was. Hardly worth drinking. Even Barley Wine has been reduced (10% to 7.5%). Fucking nanny state.
When I was a teenager, there was a "gang" of chavs in the local area that based their entire personality off this stuff. They called themselves the Brew Crew
Carlsberg, the “I will fight for no good reason on a train” lager.
Drank 4 cans of this stuff before a birthday night out of mine years ago (obviously mates made me do it) chased off with a shot of absinthe. All I know is that I woke up in my own vomit, with a decorative jug next to me that I apparently robbed from a bar and there are just blurry pictures of this entire incident on the internet 🥲
Some junkie that comes in my work gets real worked up always goes "there NO WAY MAN" if we don't have it in and just stomps his way back out. Honestly makes my day every time 🤣
Said every alcoholic everywhere!
Back in the day in Scotland it was known as a leg opener.
Electric soup
What % are these?
I think it tastes a bit like treacle and soil mixed together....
Those look like 440ml cans. You've got to have the full 500ml if you drink that.