How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

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

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