How do you take yr Fernet-Branca?

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