How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

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I really wanted to like that stuff when I wnet to Prague, rollerbeef, but I found it undrinkable. :(

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!

Fernet Stock, on the rocks after a heavy meal and sometimes, mixed with tonic, as an apperitif

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.

I have to try that, I have nothing but respect for the henderson clan.

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.

I love Becherovka! esp wih tonic

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.

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.

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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.

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. "

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.

i mean i don't think it rly matters which fernet obv.

ok i'm taking a sip.

well it tastes like wormword.. that's good right? it doesn't taste quite right...

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.

aw hell

http://youtu.be/7lEu3smXWPo

ah what the hell have i become one of those people who can't post youtube links?

see you on the whisky link imo.

i think you're probably good

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.

who is fizzles tho

i mean, really, when u get right down to it

don't ask me, srsly. I wish I fuckin knew.

it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down

Fernet (Italian pronunciation: [fɛrˈnɛt]) is a type of amaro, a bitter, aromatic spirit.

would fit in well hereabouts n'est pas

like black licorice-flavored Listerine.

ah here wtf is this like chartreuse

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.

I've never had green chartreuse. feeling the lack right now.

it's fantastic value, it was 16 years ago and i'm still retching from the slow finish

it was rhetorical, u drunken windbag, pipe down

oh I missed it.

s'ok you've been drinking innit

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.

oh no Fernet is nothing like Chartreuse...it's nothing like anything

s'ok you've been drinking innit

oh an observational comedian.

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

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.

three of us puking into the sinks in double physics the next morning, don't tell me it was misspent

sorry i'm flighty on remembered drunks

For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.

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

grasping for a bottle in the inner lining of a long-ago given jacket without any due regard for the hiding that went into the f'ing process in the first place is... a thing. I'm listening to some loud music it's making it difficult to...

we had a corporate trainer type fella come into work today. nice chap. complete twat. I mean that's how you think about life srsly?

I swear this fernet is off. drinking macallan

we should have a general 'thread for having drunk stuff that's not really meant to be drunk like that' so as not to spoil this one tbf

I feel like trying fernet again tho. seandelai has convinced me.

*had*

i was looking for this thread iirc my first encounter with fizzles <3

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.

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.

Woah would drink that

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.

^ sounds like hell which suggests it might just work.

Imagine what the mixologist and friends must have gone through to arrive at that

Ha ha. I know. Concoctions out of Tartarus.

Every time this is bumped I get a hangover

tequila, splash fernet, chocolate bitters

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.

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.

bottle of fernet as a wedding present y/n

if they don't like it they can send it to me

y.

“here is some bitter wormwood that will unhinge your head and bring you together in mutual drunkenness”

I vote no.

this is a thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA93AmMF5CI

it’s good, it does the job

Every time this is bumped I get a hangover

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 13:52 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

with gin

https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/238126853930152/

#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.

For most mortals, Fernet is thankfully self-limiting.

― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 00:51 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink

let the record show that this turned out to be unreliable advice

lol

i love fernet and have been drinking... too much of it during quarantine

straight, room temperature, preferably with an ice cold modelo especial

going to go get some now, i decided

fernet on the rocks on the first really warm day of the year >>>>

during a snowstorm

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...

fernet update: drinking fernet on the rocks

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