Wait, did you say averna or adrenochrome?
― libcrypt, Monday, 6 August 2007 01:05 (sixteen years ago) link
this is one i was thinking of:
Branca Menta is the mint version of Fernet Branca. It's too 40% alcohol and has a very firm herbal, bitterness, but it is supplemented by an intense mint scent. Like Fernet Branca, you can drink it mixed with cola. Or, you can serve it straight on ice. Once it is chilled and slightly watered down, you can either sip it or knock it back in one shot. Either way, it has an icy, crisp taste that is quite refreshing and will also give you a bit of that magic Branca high.
― Rubyredd, Monday, 6 August 2007 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost averna... but i think adrenochrome would be more fun...
― Rubyredd, Monday, 6 August 2007 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
I usually drink it warm but at certain moments a coke & fernet on ice can be very helpful
basically fernet is for people who can't tolerate the sugar levels of jaeger but still miss the slowburn opiate rush that creeps in with the second shot
― Milton Parker, Monday, 6 August 2007 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I like it straight, unchilled, sometimes with a ginger ale chaser and I never have more than two shots. It's a digestive, not a good drink. If you get a chance, try the Fernet Stock from the Czech Republic - same taste but slightly less viscous.
― Michael White, Monday, 6 August 2007 15:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Hm. I'm thinking Fernet is quite good on its own, and that a chaser defeats the purpose. Also, mixers, while tolerable, are like adding water to good scotch. This is against Campari, which requires a mixer for premium enjoyment.
― libcrypt, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 02:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Misogynist!
― wanko ergo sum, Thursday, 16 August 2007 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Friday, 17 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img.radio.cz/pictures/alkohol/becherovka3.jpg
― rollerbeef, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I really wanted to like that stuff when I wnet to Prague, rollerbeef, but I found it undrinkable. :(
― Michael White, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
man i love that fernet shit.. with a ginger chaser for sure. It really does have the same effect as jager except I don't end up fucking some grodey frat boy after drinking fernet. COOL!
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 7 May 2008 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Fernet Stock, on the rocks after a heavy meal and sometimes, mixed with tonic, as an apperitif
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 8 May 2008 07:21 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dr Henderson: equal parts Fernet Branca and creme de menthe, with ice. A hangover cure invented by the father of Fergus Henderson, owner of St John, the London restaurant.
― bham, Thursday, 8 May 2008 08:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I have to try that, I have nothing but respect for the henderson clan.
― Ed, Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I have an empty Becherovka bottle in my kitchen! The lad and one of my mates love drinking bitters and other random odd Eurofag spirits so they tried it out. I cant imagine getting through even one glass and that bottle is huge.
― Trayce, Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:08 (sixteen years ago) link
I love Becherovka! esp wih tonic
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:12 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah fergus henderson has a lot of love for the fernet-branca. i remember some other article where he said it's his first drink of the morning 'to open the eyes, calm the kidneys and start the day'. so cool.
― t_g, Thursday, 8 May 2008 12:02 (sixteen years ago) link
I have a friend that works in the restaurant industry who used to show up to work and ask for a 'cold espresso' (served in a demi-tasse for the sake of discretion) as an eye opener.
― Michael White, Thursday, 8 May 2008 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2011/3/10/1299772907773/Fergus-Henderson-007.jpg
― just sayin, Sunday, 13 March 2011 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Had a bit of a Branca Mental evening last night, brought a bottle to a party and to my amazement almost the whole thing got drunk (and drunk straight). Popular opinion was "it's not as repulsive as Fernet". Some evidence of strange psychological aftereffects today.
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
What on earth???
"You think you’re tasting mint. Everybody thinks it’s mint. But it’s actually saffron, a ridiculously high concentration of it. In fact, some have speculated that Fernet-Branca uses as much as 75% of the world’s saffron and controls the global market. "
― ILM Communication (seandalai), Sunday, 2 December 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
does fernet... hang on a sec... fernet valda go off? i mean if the answer is yes, and i'm not here to thank you record misadventure.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
i mean i don't think it rly matters which fernet obv.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:16 (eleven years ago) link
ok i'm taking a sip.
well it tastes like wormword.. that's good right? it doesn't taste quite right...
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:17 (eleven years ago) link
i mean im listening to this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lEu3smXWPo
that'll be ok right?
actually i'm feeling a little weird. might chuck this and have a whisky instead.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:18 (eleven years ago) link
aw hell
http://youtu.be/7lEu3smXWPo
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
ah what the hell have i become one of those people who can't post youtube links?
see you on the whisky link imo.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:20 (eleven years ago) link
i think you're probably good
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
yes, thanks cad. I mean what can possibly go wrong? it's alcohol and in this partick case alcohol that freezes things harder'n a black hole. nevertheless, I'm going for a chill macallan to set me up for my nocturnal coma.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
who is fizzles tho
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
i mean, really, when u get right down to it
don't ask me, srsly. I wish I fuckin knew.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:39 (eleven years ago) link
Fernet (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈnɛt]) is a type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit.
would fit in well hereabouts n'est pas
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
like black licorice-flavored Listerine.
ah here wtf is this like chartreuse
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
first time i ever got pissed chartreuse was involved i got nothing good to say about chartreuse
I mean I use you as a leitmo-benchmark. the only aroma round here is morbidity tbh, but it's all lol iirc.
xpost
or something. I wuz gwine do a Stendhal joek but couldnae be aris'd.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
I've never had green chartreuse. feeling the lack right now.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's fantastic value, it was 16 years ago and i'm still retching from the slow finish
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
oh I missed it.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
s'ok you've been drinking innit
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
you can tell the quality of a chartreuse by the legs of vomit it leaves down the wall of your beloved's parent's house.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like anything
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh an observational comedian.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
galliano, that was another good one, that funny bottle almost designed to be slipped into the inner pocket of a 16 year old's jacket, assuming he was cute/desperate enough to tear the bottom out of said pocket and subsequently lose the whole fuckin bottle round the back of his coat's inner lining
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like /anything/
I wish you'd told me that before I started sd. all I've got is darragh and that's like using shifting sands as a lighthouse.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
three of us puking into the sinks in double physics the next morning, don't tell me it was misspent
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Cynar is made with artichokes, iIrc, and I've only had it served before dinner.
Ramazotti is a good amaro if you find Fernet to be to bitter.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
cynar's great ramazottis great fernets great. these are my drinks
― just sayin, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair to the fernet, the fear that has started kicking in, and which is one of the main reasons I've cut down radically on my drinking, is nowhere near as bad as that of whisky. (yes this is probable mystic bullshit, but I associate different drunks and consequently different hangovers with similar strength drinks - fernet's always been a winner here for me)
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
There's a great chapter on bitters and herbal liqueurs in Jason Wilson's "Boozehound." I guess American tastes run to the sweet and Euro tastes run to the ... gross? Just kidding. But I couldn't imagine drinking stuff like this, Pernod, Campari, absinthe, Benedictine, Chartreuse and other spirits along those lines straight. They're tough enough in a lot of cocktails!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Czech Fernet Citrus (lime flavoured) with tonic is the king of long un fussy drinks
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 23 February 2013 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Has a Fernet Branca Menta, a Mirto and a Amaro del Capo this evening and enjoyed them all. Could make a habit of amari, I think.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
*had*
i was looking for this thread iirc my first encounter with fizzles <3
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
I was in a goth band a year or two ago and we had a habit at every show of everyone doing a shot of this before we played.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Equal parts Fernet Branca, Campari, and Cynar, with a pinch of salt and a twist of grapefruit = the Bottecchia, which makes for a great nightcap.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Woah would drink that
― just sayin, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link
Revive for Christmas. Fernet in cocktails has never worked for me because it just ends up tasting like adulterated Fernet but the other day I had this in Dublin:
FERNET IT**Olmeca Reposado Tequila, sweet vermouth, Green Chartreuse, Fernet Branca, VCC porter, gomme syrup, Orinoco Bitters, with lemon oils
and it turns out that tequila + Chartreuse + Guinness can gang up on the Fernet and come to a truce.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 25 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
^ sounds like hell which suggests it might just work.
― Fizzles, Monday, 25 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Imagine what the mixologist and friends must have gone through to arrive at that
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
Ha ha. I know. Concoctions out of Tartarus.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
Every time this is bumped I get a hangover
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 13:52 (six years ago) link
tequila, splash fernet, chocolate bitters
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
also interesting. i’ve got a large and steadily diminishing bottle of fernet in the kitchen cupboard. steadily diminishing because i’ve got into the bad habit of pouring myself several large slugs of the stuff after returning home from a night out.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
In Madrid a few years ago, my wife ordered fernet at a bar, expecting to get a little digestif-sized serving. The bartender clearly didn't know what the stuff was, even though she had a bottle of it, so she gave my wife a full 8-oz glass of it, no rocks or anything. Just a whole glass of room-temp fernet. Most of it got left behind when we went to the next bar.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
bottle of fernet as a wedding present y/n
― seandalai, Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
if they don't like it they can send it to me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:51 (five years ago) link
y.“here is some bitter wormwood that will unhinge your head and bring you together in mutual drunkenness”
― Fizzles, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
I vote no.
― Yerac, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:22 (five years ago) link
this is a thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA93AmMF5CI
― britain's secret sauce (seandalai), Tuesday, 10 September 2019 22:23 (four years ago) link
it’s good, it does the job
― Fizzles, Sunday, 22 September 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 13:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink
― provisional ilx (darraghmac), Sunday, 22 September 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
with gin
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 September 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/238126853930152/
― coptic feels (seandalai), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
#OnThisDay 1976: Esther Rantzen took to the streets to trial an Italian hangover cure.
Reactions consistent with when I started bringing Fernet to parties 30 years later.
― coptic feels (seandalai), Monday, 11 May 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
let the record show that this turned out to be unreliable advice
― coptic feels (seandalai), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:20 (four years ago) link
i love fernet and have been drinking... too much of it during quarantine
straight, room temperature, preferably with an ice cold modelo especial
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
going to go get some now, i decided
fernet on the rocks on the first really warm day of the year >>>>
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:29 (four years ago) link
during a snowstorm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link
I am not generally a fan of alternative Fernets...but I've been drinking Fernet Francisco and it's pretty good! More open than yr Branca but equally consumable in large quantities...
― timber euros (seandalai), Saturday, 6 February 2021 02:26 (three years ago) link
fernet update: drinking fernet on the rocks
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
we actually bought a small bottle of Jaegermeister recently, something I hadn't tasted in probably 25 years
It was ice cold and it wasn't half bad - nice herbal profile, not too sweet
I'll wait another 25 years and try it again
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 11 March 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link