How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

stinky stuff. i had to serve one of these last night. shit smells like cough medicine.

Isn't this the title of some best-selling Englishman-abroad-in-Italy novel?

I think that's Cooking with Fernet-Branca or something.

When asked to describe it to a friend recently, I said it was like Campari plus Jaegermeister. Anyone got a better notion?

that sounds pretty otm to me. what's the other one called, it's similar to fernet-branca?

I dunno, but you must discover it. My love of the bitter knows no bounds.

may i offer you an averna on ice with a slice of lemon/orange? (i think it's bitter, but i could be wrong)

Why, sure! Lemon, please. Bitter + sour are often excellent companions.

that'll be $3789.88, thanks ;)

(NZ dollars only, plz)

Wait, did you say averna or adrenochrome?

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.

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averna... but i think adrenochrome would be more fun...

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

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.

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.

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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.

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2011/3/10/1299772907773/Fergus-Henderson-007.jpg

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.

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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.

you are living a halflife

in retrospect the glass of whisky between the fernets was possibly a bad idea it's true. god this dismal litany of stations feel like stations of the fucking suburban cross - Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Farnham, Surbiton. Just get me to Golgotha already ffs.

shiva has gone to sleep.

I swear by this stuff but I don't even chase it with ginger ale anymore. It's one of those things I find doesn't mix well. Now angostura bitters and gin, otoh...

I have heard that Fernet-Branca is the world's larest purchaser of saffron.

Ahhhh, fernet. #memories

I also first tried it in buenos aires. The porteños who offered it to me did so as if they were handing me a crack pipe in a public information film: "Go on, just try it, it's a little overwhelming at first but you'll love it man, it's wild"

you have fernet #memories?

the only time I've drunk pink gins I fell over on the way out of my house.

ya they and they alone are why saffron is so expensive iirc xxp

fernet was always a weird medicinal thing my mum made me take as a kid but i got somewhat hooked on cynar in the summer and have since revisited the old stuff for a laugh

still fairly unpleasant but i quite like it in coffee, gets u super jacked up if need be

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 09:02 (4 years ago) Bookmark

this sounds like absolute fucking filth tbh, the man's a wrong un

Hadn't heard of Cynar before. Might try it in a year or so's time when this hangover has worn off.

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cure as in cure you stone cold dead presumably.

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.

cynar's great ramazottis great fernets great. these are my drinks

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)

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!

Czech Fernet Citrus (lime flavoured) with tonic is the king of long un fussy drinks

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.

*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