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Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:08 am
by ComfiStile
Anyone enjoy this? I lurrve it, but don't drink it at all anymore really. Have you non scottish/N.Irish folks heard of it?

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Don't let the picture fool you. It is in no way a posh drink haha.

It is the drink of the gods though.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:09 am
by bright maroon
I can walk a block and cross the street and get it...
They keep it next to the....Mad Dog

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Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:32 am
by demonzEEK
It's my drink of choice. Nothing better than being at a party and it's hitting around 11am and everyone is starting to get really strung out and you manage to get a bottle of bucky. We had this exact situation during the summer and decided to get someone to do an offy run. He came back with 8 bottles of Buckfast and a bottle of Rosé wine. Needless to say the whole party kicked into full swing again.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:33 am
by Kid_Robotik
cant stand the shit, absoloute fanny fuel

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:51 am
by Plasmic aka Hanlo
Love it. Drink it most nights before I go out - it has magical powers seriously!

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:11 am
by MasterA
I live about ten miles from where it's made. I've seen it in shops perhaps twice down here.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:33 am
by gnome
I love the stuff of course being from Northern Ireland. Had no luck finding it in England all last year now it's literally a walk away to get a bottle.

I love how the bottles are invincible.

Oh and the numbers mean nothing they are bottled outside the monastery, although every bottle does taste different. I remember buying a half bottle that turned out to be fizzy :-?

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:07 am
by antipode
God I wish there was somewhere in New Zealand to get this. sounds low-class and cheap enough to go down well here.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:24 am
by sirjonnyp
I do a camp every year where we meet up with some scots who bring a load of the stuff down. Pretty poisonous! They tried to explain what the numbers mean to us, but I lost track, funnily enough!

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:13 pm
by ComfiStile
Also forgot to mention (although I'm sure the regular drinkers know to a certain extent), that it has 37mg/100ml of caffeine. That's 5mg/100ml more than any energy drinks.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:31 pm
by arktrix45hz
Which explains my many lost nights at the Underworld in Camden kicking hardcore kids in the face (accidentally, I was dancing lol)

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:34 pm
by lloydnoise
It's basically Four Loko for Irish people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8464359.stm

LOL

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:51 pm
by teamhobson
It's lethal stuff. I drank too much when i was younger, even the thought of it makes me ill.

Mates still swear by it though.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:55 pm
by ComfiStile
That four loko stuff looks insane :D

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:32 pm
by Liam92
I'm from Glasgow, Buckfast and MD 20/20 are staples

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:39 pm
by scspkr99
lloydnoise wrote:It's basically Four Loko for Irish people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8464359.stm

LOL
Irish?

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:04 pm
by gnome
sirjonnyp wrote:I do a camp every year where we meet up with some scots who bring a load of the stuff down. Pretty poisonous! They tried to explain what the numbers mean to us, but I lost track, funnily enough!
The numbers mean nothing. The wine is bottled outside the monks pad.

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:06 pm
by kidshuffle
lloydnoise wrote:It's basically Four Loko for Irish people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8464359.stm

LOL
:cornlol:

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:13 pm
by bass_culture
I've never had it but I remember reading about it in Ian Marchant's book The Longest Crawl. He seems to suggest that it is little more than one of those despicable drinks which is consumed pretty much exclusively by the 'tramp' market...

http://books.google.com/books?id=hJudXK ... st&f=false

Re: Buckfast.

Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:27 pm
by ComfiStile
bass_culture wrote:I've never had it but I remember reading about it in Ian Marchant's book The Longest Crawl. He seems to suggest that it is little more than one of those despicable drinks which is consumed pretty much exclusively by the 'tramp' market...

http://books.google.com/books?id=hJudXK ... st&f=false

I read that thinking 'this doesn't make any fucking sense!'. It dawned on me at that point that I was reading an excerpt from each page. /facepalm.