no, he meant he's dying
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
just my luck, i thought i'd finally found an easy crowd
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
national drink of Argentinian teenagers or something like that
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
you are living a halflife
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Ahhhh, fernet. #memories
― Chief Queef - Vaginally Rich (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― Chief Queef - Vaginally Rich (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
you have fernet #memories?
the only time I've drunk pink gins I fell over on the way out of my house.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:39 (eleven 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 09:02 (4 years ago) Bookmark
this sounds like absolute fucking filth tbh, the man's a wrong un
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:43 (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 (four years ago) link
if they don't like it they can send it to me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 25 May 2019 13:51 (four 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 (four years ago) link
I vote no.
― Yerac, Sunday, 26 May 2019 20:22 (four 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
lol
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 00:20 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
during a snowstorm
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 December 2020 04:37 (three years ago) link