How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

oh fuck had I but known this information.

think didn't call in sick partly because of LIE, but if I'd known about housewive's fave Charlie sooner I'd've sacked it off.

and this from a professional skiver earlier in my life (but then people who think they're good at this sort of thing are usually v bad).

oh god -

couldn't find you!

Let me know, in which part are you on?

Now at the front.

I think , I have to come back to 4 parts back

Jesus wept now.

think I went to see some sealed knot types dick around on the mall this time last year iirr in fact.

Fleet! what a crypto-wealthy hole.

ok see you at fleet - seems easiest!

That's right.

That's right.

wonder if he'll send me confirmation of my rightness again. I hope so I could do with it.

yeah, them's the boys. I nosed about a couple of years ago, this year looking to get in to the mass, hear a crazy sermon & see what they have in the way of relics. Prob just hankies etc, I suppose. No fingers.

this drink is absolutely vile

It is 10:04 and i am therefore :04 late oh well

god, sitting talking software development with a programmer - head is hurting like hell. anyone got the gen on text edit software design? need to filch rather than reinventing the wheel.

I must stink of fernet - still half drunk + hangover.

Fernets past theorem

dying.

ah it wasn't that funny tbh

no, he meant he's dying

just my luck, i thought i'd finally found an easy crowd

I bought some Fernet Branca a couple of weeks ago. I don't mind it straight, but I'm looking for some simple cocktails I can make with it. The best one I've come across so far is the Toronto: Fernet Branca, whiskey (some recipes specify rye), simple syrup, and Angostura bitters, with a orange peel garnish.

Actually, the first time I had Fernet was in Buenos Aires, where they mix it with Coca Cola, so I guess that's an option, too.

national drink of Argentinian teenagers or something like that

fernet with coke sounds like a gustatory black hole. only possible cocktail is fernet + more fernet imo. doesn't combine. like one of those.. oh god I just asked my tech colleague what an element that doesn't combine easily with another element was called and he just gave me a full-blown but barely conprehensible account of the periodic table and protons and electrons which gave for my head to throb in agony. so I'll just say fernet's like the opposite of an alkahest, whatever the term for that is, but I'm not going to ask colleague as do not fancy a lecture on Paracelsus during which I'll have to wear my mask of attentive understanding, which feels like it's generating an aneurysm. ye gods, he's just started on about molecules. Rly nice chap, but please stop now.

still dying but it's happening slowly, oh so slowly.

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.

xpost jesus

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