Have you had buckfast wine?

Question

Buckfast wine is a cheap high alcohol wine with a high caffeine content much loved by Scottish alcoholics and heavy drinkers. It'll get you drunk really quick and you won't be able to sleep it off. While red bull gives you wings this gives you the wings of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

I drink it for the high alcohol

I drink it because the high caffeine keeps me awake on long drives

I drink it because some unqualified rightwing nut on youtube claimed it cures covid19

I drink it in the hope the high alcohol/caffeine content will inspire poppy standard questions

I'd rather drink out of the urinal in my local std clinic

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Answer 1

glutton4punishment

Xper 4

Though I've never actually tried it and have no doubt of it's potency... I think you're giving it a little more credit, then it deserves.

I haven't been drunk in about 4 years now but I used to drink like a fish. I'm not proud of that fact or anything but it would be my reason for (knowing) there's stronger wines out there..

I think I was 16, the first time I tried Cisco. Beins I was young and poor, would be why it became my "go to", for a while. As all it took to obtain, was $3 and the balls to walk into a liquor store. Since that seems to be mainly an East Coast concept, that's a store where you can buy beer AND liquor... in the (same) place! ... kooky, right? Lol

Anyway, this tasty beverage came in 3 flavors but only 2 of which, were actually drinkable. "Orange" being an abomination so atrocious, I've yet to see (anyone) who could drink more then a sip... before setting it aside to be used as turpentine, at a later date. Usually accompanied by several, "I told ya so's".

The other two were Red and Grape, their palatability in that order. If ya managed to gag down half of either though, you're taste buds would then be eviscerated for the evening... at least. The bright-side of which, of course being, that it then allows for the chugging of the 2nd half! One bottle, usually being enough to put even the highest of tolerances, in their place. Toward the end of my run however, I could usually drink two of em, before reaching blackout status.

And while I may not be very proud of my alchy days and whatnot, anyone familiar with the effects of Cisco a. k. a, Liquid Crack... knows they (GOTTA) tip their hat, to that shit! Lol Have you had buckfast wine?

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purplepoppy

1 y
Well done on giving it up
glutton4punishment

1 y
Thank you.. though my reasons for having done so, are less then admirable.

I'd tell ya why that is but most don't take it very well. Which is (sorta) understandable but given the fact it can and probably would work for anyone... sucks no one ever takes me seriously.
glutton4punishment

1 y
Oh jeez, I just re-read that. Now I feel like I'm trying to sell something, I'm not.. it was due to drug use. One drug in particular, really.

It wasn't just me that it effected, had a buddy that drank hard liquor, like water. He ended up quitting for a long time as well and neither of us, were trying to..

Dont get me wrong, I'm not trying to advocate drug use but there (is) an ingredient in it, that "re-wires" an alcoholics mind and should REALLY be studied further.

Though my friend reverted back to drinking after a year or 2, when this particular crap couldn't be bought anymore... as I said, been 4 years and counting for me. I even (try) to drink from time to time, I've yet to finish an entire beer. I've completely lost my taste for it... which if ya knew me, is nothing short of incredible.

Answer 2

purplepoppy

Well done on giving it up

Answer 3

glutton4punishment

Thank you.. though my reasons for having done so, are less then admirable.

I'd tell ya why that is but most don't take it very well. Which is (sorta) understandable but given the fact it can and probably would work for anyone... sucks no one ever takes me seriously.

Answer 4

glutton4punishment

Oh jeez, I just re-read that. Now I feel like I'm trying to sell something, I'm not.. it was due to drug use. One drug in particular, really.

It wasn't just me that it effected, had a buddy that drank hard liquor, like water. He ended up quitting for a long time as well and neither of us, were trying to..

Dont get me wrong, I'm not trying to advocate drug use but there (is) an ingredient in it, that "re-wires" an alcoholics mind and should REALLY be studied further.

Though my friend reverted back to drinking after a year or 2, when this particular crap couldn't be bought anymore... as I said, been 4 years and counting for me. I even (try) to drink from time to time, I've yet to finish an entire beer. I've completely lost my taste for it... which if ya knew me, is nothing short of incredible.

Answer 5

Angelo75

Xper 7

I haven't drunk it... "yet".
A while ago my older brother introduced me to rum-redbull.
The idea of being tipsy-yet-alertish totally blew my mind.
Since redbull will give you a heart-attack more or less, I switched to less intense cocktails.
Like homemade white-russian.

Recipe:
-1/3 part milkpowder
-Nescafe instant coffee (maybe 1 teaspoon just enough for aroma and to keep you awake)
-1/3 part rum
-1/3 part vodka

That vodka will make you sing in Russian... without understanding Russian. :P

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Answer 6

EssenceOfLight | 341 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Explorer

Nope, never had that.
Port wines with 15% aren't uncommon. But... how comes caffeine in this mysterious substance?
I think red bull wings fueled with vodka give better start in an longer evening.

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Answer 7

Tyrael

Yoda

Good ol' wreck the hoose juice. I don't drink it much anymore but I still enjoy the odd bottle out the freezer from time to time. The connoisseurs choice, a fine vintage.

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Tyrael

1 y
Also absolutely not cheap anymore either.

Answer 8

Tyrael

Also absolutely not cheap anymore either.

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DJB72 | 158 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Yoda

I lived up the road from Buckfast Abbey for ten years. Thankfully they make more than tonic wine there.

I'd rather buy a jar of their honey 🍯 😊

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Answer 10

TCredo

Yoda

Never had or heard of it but my answer was quickly done as D - if it gives me the inspiration, knowledge and power to ask questions like you do, I'm down :)

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Answer 11

goaded | 177 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

No, but I used to live near there, a long, long time ago.

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Iron_Man | 3.3K opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Master

I don't drink but if I am going to have a drink I'll have Mad Dog 20/20 right out of the bottle

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roastbeef

Xper 5

I can't give an opinion on it because I never drank it.

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CreamySeed | 51 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Xper 7

“this gives you the wings of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.”
😂😂🤣😂🤣
Thanks now I have to clean the spit off my phone screen

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Answer 15

Tea-Spaghetti

Explorer

I don’t like caffeine and alcohol together

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joeldalton | 799 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Guru

Sounds like a wonderful disaster.

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I-have-a-biscuit

Xper 6

I drank fast and I drank buck but never buckfast

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Answer 18

gandolph3

Yoda

it cured donaldt rump

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Answer 19

Pete671 | 103 opinions shared on Food & Beverage topic.

Yoda

15% isn't very high,

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purplepoppy

1 y
For wine it is
Pete671

1 y
fair point, not compared to spirits though, all part of the conspricay to keep us all addicted to alcohol lol,,,,
Tyrael

1 y
Combine that % of alcohol with the several cans of red bull worth of caffeine in it though and you've got rocket fuel