Brits Drank THIS As Teenagers!

[@DaveBartlett]

If you have enough WKD Blue left over, and you can get hold of a bottle of cheap Ruby Port, you could try a "Cheeky Vimto" by mixing equal measures of the two. You'd then have experienced one of Amy Winehouse's favourite drinks!

[@Dunkster23]

Cheeky V! Now there’s a throwback.

[@neildenton3821]

Yes to cheeky Vimto. Genius.

[@DronedLove]

Could also have picked up a can of Stella to mix with the Smirnoff Ice for a Turbo Shandy.

[@jamesmason3348]

Cheeky vimto here was a double ruby port and a normal sized bottle of blue wkd.

[@browpetj]

Those cheeky vimtos really do taste like vimto! :) Cheeky Dr. Pepper Disserono and coke.

[@BoomslangSkin3739]

Mad Dag 2020, no-ones favourite, but definitely iconic and memorable!

[@YvonneWilson312]

Oh great, drunk Alanna is back for another visit! Welcome - hope the hangover wasn't too bad....!! Cheers🍺🍻

[@jonshepherd5906]

As you said Lambrini is a perry. Perry is like cider but is made using pears instead of apples. Slightly older people from the uk might remember babycham which was big in the 1980s and is also a sparkling perry.

[@Ally-i1d]

Can you imagine Alanna's partner coming home seeing all the alcohol lined up on the side and asking 8f she's had a hard day in the office 🤣

[@eugeneshadwell6596]

Pretty sure the dudes used to it by now... ;o)

[@mr8ball1st]

Well hopefully they were home to answer the door 😁

[@deanloveridge5515]

I love it when you say "legal drinking age" the rest of us brits think that is cute!

[@andybryson8008]

True that. I first got served in a pub at 15, and was a regular in my local boozer at the age of 16.

[@knightofcydonia07]

@@andybryson8008 are you Wolfie from Inbetweeners?

[@DaveF.]

Ah, Carling - a beer whose best qualities, by far, were the adverts they used to run on the telly. Otherwise utterly unremarkable.

[@jaydivision2071]

Fizz and piss

[@Oxley016]

good thing it's cheap as chips

[@leohickey4953]

Carling also happens to be Canadian (owned by Molson Coors).

[@Oxley016]

@@leohickey4953 It's not Canadian however it may well be owned by Canadians currently.

[@leohickey4953]

@@Oxley016 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carling_Brewery "The Carling Brewery was founded in 1840 by Thomas Carling at London in Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada)"

[@thesunreport]

'Pernod and black' is the real deal for old school teenage debauchery. It has a good alcohol content, and the addition of undiluted blackcuurent cordial (in those days it was full sugar) can give an unusual and extreme 'buzz'. Dangerous stuff. 😁

[@JUANKERR2000]

Re 'White Lightning' and Smirnoff that does not taste of alcohol, many years ago I had a 2 litre bottle of 8•4% 'white' cider that had gone 'flat', so I decanted it into Sodastream bottles, re-gassed it and left the bottles in the fridge to chill. My wife who does not drink alcohol and is thus very susceptible to its effect, drank rather quickly about half a pint of my stash to quench her thirst on a hot day and shortly after wondered why when she tried to stand up her knees no longer worked properly. I was greatly amused, she was not.

[@eze8970]

Top work!

[@TitianTopsyTurvy]

Did you get lucky? 😉

[@christy2679]

I’ve only recently discovered this channel- I’ve watched about 20 different channels that compare the differences between the UK and other cultures- out of all of those, only 2 of them have seemed authentic and came across actually passionate about the subject of the vids they were making. Now there’s a third :) I’m surprised at how much I’m enjoying this channel- also, you are freaking gorgeous!!!

[@Richard_Jones]

A very long time ago there was a thing called Gold Label Barley Wine which was basically an 11% abv beer. There was also briefly in the 80's a cider called Strongbow 1080, which was about 8%. We used to mix these to make a super snakebite that we called a 'Carl Jung.' We were trying to be clever because Jung came up with the idea of the 'collective unconscious'. If we'd been really clever we wouldn't have drunk the stuff at all.

[@keithsummers6139]

i used to do that with a shot of vodka in it

[@Richard_Jones]

@@keithsummers6139 I'm impressed that you can still remember!

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

22:30 The original alcopop was Hooper's Hooch (or just Hooch, Launched in Britain in 1995 by Bass as an alcoholic lemonade), it was deemed dangerous due to it's resemblance to a soft drink, strong alcohol content and was banned, then re-introduced in a lower alcohol content version. Now there's TONS of them. Hooch still has a kind of stigma due to it's original release. 23:46 "Scottish's" ????? Wow, those drinks must be strong.

[@kathybramley5609]

THAT was what we drank as teenagers, well and cider like diamond white, and just ordinary lagers and beers. I'm 46.

[@jackdubz4247]

@@kathybramley5609 MD 20/20, Buckfast, Merrydown, White Lightning and TNT was what we had down my way, back in the mid 90's.

[@SMlFFY85]

Alanna needs her own dedicated park bench for these alcohol taste tests. A bit like Ashens but with a more Broken Britain vibe.

[@eadweard.]

Don't you find that ashens to be a bit of a studenty tosser?

[@eze8970]

She can petition her council? 🤔😂

[@kents.2866]

Lol. Sounds like the guy at a gas station in US sitting on the curb with a 40 Oz malt liquor can in a paper bag asking for cigarettes or a couple bucks.

[@fhmsyndicate5388]

@9:09..... When your gettin' off your head on mixing drinks, you definately need snacks... lots of 'em!!

[@rheostar]

We use Carling lager in slug beer traps, wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole otherwise. Great video Alana.

[@JUANKERR2000]

That's about all Carling is fit for.

[@Oxley016]

found the posh snobs

[@Sierraomega1991]

Carling is piss water and they tried to ruin tennents

[@davewright8206]

slugs just have no finesse

[@cogboy302]

Ewwwwww, Carling. I'd rather drink my own piss. I fixed a neighbour's daughter's car a few years ago, after she'd been ripped off by a 'garage', and she brought me a pack of Carling to say thank you. - I had to smile through gritted teeth as I accepted the gift.

[@craigavonvideo]

I remember drinking "Gin & Hooch" back 25 years ago (Hooch being the first of the new alcopops in the UK in the 1990s). Diluting alcohol with alcohol ... what could possibly go wrong!!! 🤣

[@tomponige1146]

i cant believe hooch wasn't suggested more, as a young farmer it was a huge percentage of what i drank

[@sockington1]

two dogs was the first

[@craigavonvideo]

@@sockington1 I remember drinking that as well!

[@Anvillius]

You can't get it now but we used to buy a fortified wine called Thunderbird, there was a blue label at 13% and a red label at 17%, it was the only drink that got you bladdered from the legs up, weird gear; My favourite club drink was made using a double vodka shot, blue bols & half a lager in a pint pot, we called it a Kermit; One thing of note, after a few of those don't spew on a sheepskin rug, you'll never get the stains out.

[@redmille1000]

Apparently I had some great nights on Thunderbird and 20/20, I just wish I could bloody remember them!

[@philbarkworth9547]

Up on the Yorkshire coast, they used to do a, Half pint of Strongarm bitter in a pint glass, with a bottle of barley wine in. That got you drunk from the feet up too. Many good nights in Whitby drinking that, from what I can remember LMAO.

[@grahamross6397]

@@redmille1000 Hah, hah. Same here... +1

[@AnonEyeMouse]

Thunderbird was awesome. Used to mix it with absinthe and mead to make an S.I.G. SIG stood for Spectrum is green, a quote from captain scarlet & the mysterons. If you pointed out thunderbirds was a different puppet show, you were told to drink it to find out. Can confirm, three drinks of SIG and the logic makes sense to you. Nothing else does but the name does.

[@1daveyp]

THUNDERBIRD! Arrghhh! I remember drinking Thunderbird, well, not actually remember drinking it of course. But I remember it being something we drank, along with Peach Schnapps.

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

Spending the day getting hammered... talk about fitting right in.

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

The go to drink when I was growing up was 'White Lightning' or 'Frosty Jack'. If I remember correctly, it was a 2.5ltr bottle and was about 8% alcohol. We would sit on the park and drink it on a Friday night, no matter the weather. I remember on time (kind of) it was literally freezing out and there was a pond that had frozen over. So, I decided to crack the ice and grab a piece to break with my head... As you do. As you can imagine the result wasn't great. I successfully broke it... But I also cut the bridge of my nose in the process and it started to pour with blood, all over my white top. What made it worse was that my Mum was going to pick me up later on, as I lived out in the country and all in my school mates were not. So I had non way of getting back otherwise. I had to try and clean myself up as best I could.... As well as try to sober up, or more accurately act sober. I remember talking to my Mum about it years later and somehow she had no idea and didn't notice anything odd at all when she picked me up 😆

[@schrodingerscat1863]

Ah, snake bite, now that takes me back to my student days, best way to turn crappy cheap cider and crappy cheap lager into something basically drinkable. That was about the right amount of blackcurrant by the way, one of my personal favourites was to add a shot of Pernod into it too, but only when already drunk.🤣

[@johnatkins-qn2lk]

I thought my group of riends invented a pernod with a snakebite and black ! Make it a double pernod and black in your snakebite and you have a 'Red Bender'!

[@schrodingerscat1863]

@@johnatkins-qn2lk Unless you did this back in the 1980's then you didn't invent it at all. We used to drink this when I was at university back in the 80s and it was happened upon after a rather drunken weekend when we just started mixing whatever was left after a party, actually tasted decent so it became a thing.

[@hebdenmags]

I got very drunk on barley wine and cider in Liverpool early 70s. 😮😮😮

[@stephenphillip5656]

Ooh er, Alanna's on the lash....and mixing her drinks as well. This isn't going to end well....🙄 Well done Alanna, yet another great taste test. Thanks for all the great entertainment.....😃👍👍

[@jamesswindley9599]

Watching her drink Sourz as a drink triggered me 😂 it’s a shot drink, like… RIP a full glass of that poison 😂❤️🇬🇧

[@stephenphillip5656]

@@jamesswindley9599 I was unaware of Sourz but it didn't look like something you'd drink a pint of in one go. Well, not without suffering the consequences....🤭😳

[@markperry5975]

Snakebite..... Classy 😀 cool though, look at the drinks menu for Spiders rock club in Hull 😊

[@trevormillar1576]

Back in the 70s we used to go "top shelfing"; drinking all the weird liqueurs kept on the top shelf behind the bar; last man to pass out won.

[@davidcollins9335]

Lol, i love watching our little Canadian friend getting pissed, Thunder Bird, mad dog 20 20, Woodpecker cider yeah!!!

[@jfergs.3302]

Ahhh, the cider, stout (usually Guinness), combo. Or black velvet as we called it. I had a phase of drinking this. An interesting pour... If you rushed it, it'd foam up and the 'head' would rise above the top of the glass. But it didn't just run over, it just kept rising rather like watching a soufflé baking 🙂 Happy days.

[@shaunw9270]

Black Velvet yes ! I remember knocking that back , mid 80's too ☺️

[@The45thClown]

Black velvet is Guinness and Champagne, was told with cider is the northern version (not sure if true). Both are nice and prefer the cider version.

[@jfergs.3302]

@@shaunw9270 🙂👍

[@jfergs.3302]

@@The45thClown Yeah, I'd heard that back in the day too. That's why i added the 'as we called it' to cover myself. Our version, very much the poor mans black velvet. As a teen no way i could afford a half pint of champers, and i'm sure my mates would've had something to say when it came to any of their rounds 😄

[@shaunw9270]

@@The45thClown Down here in Bristol ,our Black Velvet was usually Taunton Cider , especially "Natch" with Carling , Carlsberg or .. Hofmeister as I recall. Wasn't much call for champagne round our way ...more like Pomagne 😅

[@antimat7487]

As a 14 year old started on Cider / Scrumpy (still my favourite alcoholic tipple), moved onto Lager top (splash of lemonade in a lager), next came the snake bite 'n' black years (got you so blotto that pubs apparently stopped selling it), the sophisticated late teens Diamond White and then the first alcopop Hooch. Honourable / horrible mentions Blue Nun, White Tower, Port and Coke, Stella, Red Stripe, Hofmeister and Scrumpy Jack.

[@nbclaymore1861]

"...as far as I can remember." :-) In Scotland, the most common teenage lethal tipple is Buckfast Tonic Wine, which is made by monks at Buckfast Abbey in Devon. Never tried it - it's probably vile.

[@lilyliz3071]

Let me assure you it’s not just teenagers,stuff should be banned here tbh

[@craigavonvideo]

Ahh, Lurgan champagne 😀 Had it once and never again. Would rather drink Benylin!

[@charlienewbold9809]

Love Buckfast!

[@afpwebworks]

As an almost-legally drinking teenager, I used to raid my Dad's liquor cabinet to see what I could steal. I found his stash of cider and used to make off with that when I was heading out on a date, or to a party. I found out much later that he would hide the cider in his liquor cabinet in the hope that i'd find it rather than make off with his expensive single malt whiskey or gin or other hard liquor.

[@deathbysnusnu515]

Been watching this channel too long, the scoring system is starting to make sense! Also expected Aftershock. Next time Alana?

[@Atoning_Unifex]

Aftershock and Red Bull is a fantastic combo :)

[@leecromer3289]

Remember many moons ago, down in Devon I’d heard of a cider called ‘Devon rough’ so doing the ‘while in Rome do as the romans do’ I walked in this pub and asked for a pint of Devon rough, the pub went very quiet and the barman looked at me strangely but pulled a pint of said Devon rough from an old plastic bucket with a tap on it!!! You couldn’t see through the pint glass, I had three pints, then left about half two in the afternoon to meet my wife who’d gone shopping, all I remember is waking up on the bed at half nine that evening, no recollection of anything in between…oh, and I could drink people under the table in those days…😂😂😂🤪

[@Quaker521]

White lightning may be gone but you can still get 7.5% white cider in big 'pop' bottles. Ice and WKD was part of the whole alcopops thing of the 90's/00's that really appealed to younger drinkers. They were really easy to drink given that they tasted more like soft drinks. Great video. 😁😂

[@lukekarts]

Th e reason WKD, Smirnoff and VK "appealed to teenagers" isn't because they were nice, though. It's because they were ALWAYS on buy one get one free or some other ludicrous offer like £1 a bottle which meant it was the only way we could afford to get drunk.

[@paullamb3109]

When I was a kid I used to sneak a can of my mums Carlsberg Special Brew, now there’s a drink for experienced drinkers😁

[@whisperproof7332]

White lighting, tenants super, special brew, MD 20/20 My liver sure doesn't miss the teenage years 🤣🤣

[@majakian]

When she said White Lightning, I was thinking damn...she got her hands on some moonshine. lol

[@devilsolution9781]

Frosty crew

[@ecosid]

The WKD you had reminded me of the Mad Dog 20/20 I used to have as a student (desperate times, desperate measures etc) - it's wine, but with added flavours & blue raspberry was... well... one of them. Then there was Hooch and / or two dogs - similar drinks, basically a lemon alcopop. Oh, and similar to the Snakebite, there was Blastaway - 50/50 cider and another alcopop called Castaway, not sure if that's still available - from memory, it was pretty much alcoholic Lilt.

[@chrislawley5339]

Great to hear the word Pissed used correctly. Was always confused by Saved by the Belll with US school kids saying they were pissed at school 😂

[@peterjf7723]

Just one of the many things that the US gets wrong.

[@klaxoncow]

12:54 Yeah, that would be the Lambrini. It is sparkling, after all.

[@kenlongfellow]

Alanna: "It doesn't taste like alcohol." Him: "That's the plan, baby!" In my youth, Bartles & James Wine Coolers were extremely popular - so popular that we even got it by the keg (along with a keg of malt liquor) for our wild parties so the girls would be able to 'get in the mood'! After all, teenage drinking had a primary purpose of lowering the inhibitions of the girl we were too afraid to ask out directly.

[@wilmaknickersfit]

The best alcoholic drinks are the ones that do not taste of alcohol! 😎🍻

[@paulm2467]

And give a bit of Dutch courage to a spotty youth.

[@sandrabeaumont9161]

Yes I went through a Smirnoff Ice phase. And you are a giggler my girl when pissed! 🤣🤣

[@ShaneH42]

R.I.P Alanna’s stomach, you lived a life beyond your years

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂 🙏🏻

[@littleannie390]

Back in my teen years in the 60s popular drinks I remember were lager and blackcurrant or lime, snowballs (advocaat and sparkling lemonade served with a maraschino cherry), babycham (which is also a sparkling perry) and the biggest hangover giver port and lemon.

[@TitianTopsyTurvy]

@ Little Annie I loved a snowball back in the day, my Mum considered them suitable for children.

[@littleannie390]

@@TitianTopsyTurvy yes I used to drink snowballs but I don’t think I could now. My dad used to drink advocaat on its own but I thought that was disgusting. My mum also liked Cherry B but that turned your lips purple.

[@maukoowo4042]

I don't think Alana will ever return to Canada. She seems absolutely hooked on British culture.

[@roberthindle5146]

Well, British booze.

[@stevewilldo3056]

Fell down a YT rabbit hole of people from other countries talking about the UK today and glad I watched a few other Adeventures and Naps vids before this one. So unexpected, so funny, so many embarassing memories related to those drinks (as a legal teen). Great stuff! The mental image of Alanna getting funny looks walking into her local corner shop and randomly buying Lambrini and K cider instead of the usual loo roll/milk/whatever really made me laugh!

[@mothmagic1]

Yes Alanna is entertaining and that's why we love her videos.

[@kevfquinn]

Haha - I remember White Lightning 🤠 If I remember right, known for being relatively strong... Was waiting for the Green Monster to turn up - but I guess the snakebite and black got there first! A half of cider, a half of lager, and a shot of Blue Curaçao because of course that's the obvious shot to mix in🤪

[@revengenerd1]

Fond memories of when I left home at 17, White Lightning or its equivalent Frosty Jacks was what I drank when I wanted a night out but only had literally about £1-£3, a 3 litre bottle was £4 normally and as cheap as £2 on offer and 2/3 of the bottle and I would black out and do silly things. it put me off cider for life and even apple juice for about 5 years which I used to drink daily.

[@davidburton2732]

Watching this on a Sunday afternoon whilst sipping a few large G&T's. Can't stop giggling. Go girl!

[@brianwilliams8436]

Hmmm... I remember when me & my mates made Diamond White and Special Brew snakebites... We called the drink a "Douglas Bader" !!!!

[@Forest_Fifer]

I'd imagine a few younger and/or non UK people may not get the joke there....

[@smavtmb2196]

You were so fun in that video Fun watching as the alcohol took affect. Very interesting rating scale for each drink. Now some crisps to absorb the booze. Those pringles sounded tasty I wonder if that flavor is available here in Vancouver? I got some drunk memories of Smirnoff ice and Mike's hard lemonade years ago. Did the Blue drink taste like blue raspberry? Or Romulan Ale? Ok I'm a dork for referencing star trek. I should be asleep, but got a bit of insomnia. Cheers!

[@johnyoung9822]

Watching you try some of the british drinks and get sozzled at the same time is amazing. When I was younger Snake bite was the normal but with scumpy and special brue i don't remend it now though.

[@elwolf8536]

Thay must of been deadly

[@Jimdixon1953]

Around 1999 in the UK there was an alcopop called Red which had a peppery taste. It was never that widespread and wasn’t around that long. I tended to drink Caffreys at that point which was an Irish beer that gave me some horrific hangovers 🤢

[@alancollier8221]

I remember serving a whole load of the alcohols from behind a bar in the 00’s. Red Bull and vodka was a common one along with Hooch. There were so many knock off versions of these as well.

[@shaunw9270]

Hooch ! Been racking my brain trying to remember that name 🤦🤦🤦🤦😅

[@williammcaleese2709]

That's like in Spain when they banned Red Bull, only to be replaced by their own Pink Fish.

[@jenniedarling3710]

Ooh the 00's that was a great time to be young.

[@nagillim7915]

When you're a teenager you have to buy your alcohol at a corner store. It's part of the experience.

[@Leonard_Smith]

This is the content that makes the internet of You Tubes totally worth it! 🤣 PS, if you ever want to experiment, substitute Ribena for the blackcurrant cordial. then you claim it as one of your "Five-a-day"

[@andrewmcewan8081]

we drank some terrible things as kids ,dimond white and special brew snakebite ,thunderbird red or blue ,md20/20, merrydown gold cider, buckfast and many many more.

[@TusharPankaj]

Great video, drunk Alanna is back again! How much did you regret this the day after filming?

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

I honestly have no memory except sleeping on the couch lol

[@hairyairey]

@@AdventuresAndNaps interesting, alcohol usually makes people more excitable. But of course it just sends some people to sleep. Just don't sleep in bins 😢

[@dave_h_8742]

@@hairyairey Worked with a guy who fell into a hedge one night and woke up to the dew on his face on the grass with the horrified householder staring at them, this was the second time through the same hedge.

[@paulcollins9586]

I remember drinking blast a ways which was a mix of white lightning and castaway a tropical breezer which together tasted like lilt. Like the name suggested it got you there. I expected to see hooch on your list. A classic.

[@petemarshall3512]

This is great, really takes me back to my uni days of cheap booze and hungover lectures. I remember a friend and I getting home late one night and trying Bells mixed with Lambrini for reasons unknown, which may be the least classy drink imaginable. And let me tell you - if you're looking for a drink to fuel bad decisions, this is the way to go!

[@jennetscarborough5145]

For a drink to fuel bad decisions, I recommend a two litre bottle filled quarter of the way with Absinthe, then a quarter of Vodka, then topped up with squash and water. First bad decision was downing the last quarter when we were ready to head to the club. Never tried that again.

[@thebigeasy87]

All the girls on our group drank lambrini but never finished the bottles before they were hammered. I became the minesweeper finishing up the unfinished bottles.

[@kodi1969]

One of the mixed drinks I used to serve was called 'dogs bollocks' it was a White lightning and two dogs alcoholic lemonade it was lethal.

[@frankbrodie5168]

I'll tell you the drink that in my 40+ years drinking that I consider to be the most lethal drink I've had in any quantity. (not including stuff like Absinthe which albeit legal for sale in the UK is almost like a liquid recreational drug.) A shot of Pernod, a shot of Bacardi, in a glass with half a lager... Never mind dogs bollocks, after a handful of those, I had no idea where my own bollocks were.

[@kodi1969]

@@frankbrodie5168 that sounds nasty... Used to serve depth charges to regulars...normally only in half pint glasses... Or the flaming chartreuse challenge... Chartreuse in shot glass, light it , lick palm, then palm on top of glass onto flames forms a vacuum and sticks to palm , hand with glass suctioned on to it around head then drink drunk... ... Quickly followed by three more... Most didn't get to the fourth one... The amount of people I have managed to catch out with 'gorilla snot' , in separate glass a small shot of lime cordial, and another with Bailey's in it. First the slug of lime which they swill around mouth, then the Bailey's again swill round mouth ... Immediately the Bailey's splits and congeals into a thick stodgy mass and seems to expand and fill the whole mouth....very difficult to swallow.. and very funny to see someone trying.....

[@gordonwallin2368]

More fun videos from you! Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[@gordonwallin2368]

Alana , your best cider taste testing was when you were back in Ontario-that was hilarious!! It was so much fun. Cheers.

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!

[@josephturner4047]

In 1971, when I was 14, it was lager and lime. And drinking was only done in pubs. You had to know the right pub.😉

[@Inaflap]

Was it that pub in Hot Fuzz?

[@davidsharpe7644]

This experiment is a two parter Allana, i'll tune in tomorrow for the second part take it easy.

[@stevenclarke5606]

Tomorrow “ never again “ , hangover cure

[@IanHodgetts]

I used to love "K" cider, but it used to be in smaller bottles. I'm guessing it's changed. I'm also fond of a (poor man's) "black velvet" which is stout with cider (not really thought of this as snakebite). The real deal is stout and champagne.

[@georgefoster8133]

Black velvets are deadly, say goodbye to the next day 😂

[@sambressington6229]

You neeeeeeeed to try frosty jacks!! its a 7.5% cider that costs £3 for 3 liters and dosent actally contain apples but it is one of the most infamous drinks from where im from in the southwest

[@DarrellW_UK]

Oh dear, Alanna getting silly again 😂😂😂 Just love these alcohol ones you are soooo funny! We shall have to think of something else for you to have a go at 👍

[@soldeed77]

Great video with lots of terrible memories lol. Pretty sure sourz was better with a mixer, and if not mentioned yet, snakebite and black was a staple at Loughborough Uni - all us students ordered many a "Purple Nasty" 😀

[@revengenerd1]

It was referrred to as "diesel" at my uni.

[@lizrichardson3309]

I recently found a very old bottle of Sourz Apple in the back of a cupboard...... I think it was left by one of my children (who left home a long time ago!) it cleaned my sink very nicely! 😄

[@roderickwhyte240]

When I was 17 I sometimes had Stout & Cider , in pint glasses, and for shorts I sometimes had Rum & Black (blackcurrant juice and rum). Cider was my preferred drink at the time- easier for a teenager to drink being sweeter than beer. This was in 1970 so sometime ago. Those green and blue coloured drinks you had would look good in a sci-fi movie- you know the kind of thing where they have aliens in bar on a distant planet drinking blue or green drinks! Hope your head is alright in the morning, Alanna.

[@paulm2467]

Stout and cider is ‘poor man’s black velvet’ or just black velvet when I was a youngster, it was normally Guinness and cider and was pretty popular. The real black velvet is a cocktail of stout and champagne (or other sparkling wine).

[@Killakatnage89]

Not sure if they still sell it but the sourz we used to drink was called aftershock, that stuff was evil 🤣

[@daveoconnell3833]

Aftershock is much stronger

[@c0l57v49]

Apple sours, vile stuff and your freezies are “tip tops” in Brum (Birmingham)

[@allenwilliams1306]

It is legal to drink in England & Wales from the age of 5. Restrictions apply as to where, and how you acquire it. My first alcoholic drink was given to me at the age of 4: pale ale from one of my grandfathers. and cider from the other. I loved both.

[@revengenerd1]

It's something along the lines its illegal to purchase but not to drink.

[@joshuataylor3550]

That explains your brain development.

[@allenwilliams1306]

@@joshuataylor3550 Exactly: it has been properly and regularly nourished throughout the past 70 years. The earlier training was necessary when I got to College at 18: there was a bar that only opened when the pubs shut, of which there were many within a few minutes walk, and an excellent wine cellar from which bottles could be purchased on credit. Welcoming sherry parties galore, and everybody had cans of beer in their room in case of visitors. Alcohol ran the place. Had I been abstemious previously, I could not have coped.

[@Bernard-np2fq]

Always put a little brandy in teething babies milk.they never complained or wasted any❤❤❤

[@CharlieyT95]

I remember “Frosty Jacks” It was cider that was awful but very cheap so I’m pretty sure it was only ever bought by teenagers trying to get served because they had no money themselves

[@garryfunkgaming5918]

Couple of quid for 3 ltr 😂

[@CharlieyT95]

@@garryfunkgaming5918 Lethally cheap

[@silkyfan]

Remembering back to my mis-spent youth (a long, long time ago), I always thought that Snakebite also had a shot of vodka in it.

[@georgeshaw6374]

Ours did, Carlsburg Special Brew, Merrydown cider and Smirnoff blue label, pure class

[@redrumtruecrime]

Anyone remember "turbo shandys"⁉️ Pint of Stella or Carlsberg Export then when you've drank half tip in a bottle of Smirnoff ice, Killer hangover for sure‼️😂😂😂😂

[@seanyoung1151]

Absolutely brilliant rolled back the years with these drinks 😁👌🏻

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

Thanks so much!

[@Kardiac]

Being from Northern Ireland, Buckfast was pretty common as a teen. We used to refer to it as "Lurgan wine" as Lurgan (a town) had a lot of teens who seemed to drink rather a lot of it. Good luck with that taste test, it's nasty stuff! MD20/20 was one of the more common drinks of my youth however I tended to opt for "sensible" drinks such as a pint of Bass or Guinness as pubs were far less likely to query your age. I had my first WKD Blue only a short while ago...never again. Might be worth doing one on drinks people will never touch again (usually after getting blindingly drunk on them). For me, that would be Southern Comfort. That episode in a mates house required a lot of cleaning up! (Incidentally...was that the Ring doorbell from the previous home? I'm sure others hope it managed to move to a better place too! :P)

[@geoffpoole483]

When I was a teenager a friend introduced me to barley wine. Adnams, the local brewery brewed a barley wine called Tally Ho. My 18 year old brain worked out that in terms of alcohol per pence it was cheaper than drinking bitter, with the same consequences.

[@mystified1429]

Nice one - I used to drink bitter with barley wine mix . From our local Sussex brewery.

[@Racernumbersix]

Your website is very nice by the way, very professional. Good job.

[@PHDarren]

Smirnoff Ice always makes me think of soluble paracetamol in water that hasn't fully dissolved but you have so much of a headache you drink it cloudy, because you drank too much Smirnoff Ice the previous night.

[@Oxley016]

never had it, I just know it from that one Arctic Monkeys song where 'But this lad at her side drinking his Smirnoff Ice Came and paid for her Tropical Reef'

[@_Steven_S]

20:00 Well... when you put it like that 😁 And heeellloooo 2004. Never heard of K Cider either.

[@simonhobdell9050]

At one time K cider was seen to be quite fancy and was very fashionable in the late 80's early nineties. My drink of choice if I did not want to see the next day 😂

[@jamesmatthews291]

Or if you fancied picking a fight with a random stranger in a town centre at 18:00 on a Friday... 😆

[@paulchamley]

You should try Wychwood Green Goblin cider - on it's own, it's a lovely cider and appears to be called Thatchers Green Goblin these days. Wychwood Green Goblin with Wychwood Hob Goblin (the unofficial beer of Halloween) was my tipple in my teens IIRC. Love the belch :D

[@jeffgraham6387]

Alanna, I'm sure you'll get many comments regarding the lethality of the snakebite, suffice to say many many pubs refuse to serve it....it's not called a snakebite for nothing, careful! 🤪

[@gavinnorthants]

We used to buy a pint of cider and a pint of beer, and pour half and a half into an empty glass then add the blackcurrant we had smuggled up the pub. Wish Tesco quadruple strength squash existed then, would have been a lot smaller. Alena is right about not being aware of good alcoholic drinks as teenagers, so we used to drink sweet drinks. Like WKD Blue or Smirnoff ice.

[@Killakatnage89]

Aha I remember the local used to serve us them separate to, we just had to mix ourselves 😆

[@cactustactics]

When I saw her reaction I thought "it's gonna be a wild night" moments later: "patreons, I just wanna say I lub u guysh"

[@excessivedetailgaming]

When you said White Lightning was discontinued in 2009, I swear I felt myself age 20 years! Thanks for that 😂

[@SapphireRavenmoon]

So much of this reminded me of everything I drank when I was in Uni, especially the Smirnoff Ice/WKD/Apple Sourz 😂

[@AdventuresAndNaps]

😂 Thanks for watching!!

[@nickfeeee]

Good luck to you for tomorrow, coz ya mixing your drinks, and the hangover is gonna be "entertaining" to say the least!

[@MattBrunton1965]

I think the killer drink in the 80s for us would be something like Pernod and blackcurrant. Great to see your gradual descent into mild intoxication! 👍

[@akgguildford6397]

Mine was a Pernod and pineapple. Bottoms up.

[@patrickfox-roberts7528]

I'd forgotten that !

[@marcharris7394]

Hi Alana, lovely watching you getting slowly sozzled! Lol! In my youth we would drink lager, of course, but sometimes went for the exotic. You should try sweet Cider with Guinness, called a black velvet. Or, if the lager was poor quality, which a lot of it was in the 70s, we would mix it with Gold Label, a Barley wine which when mixed half n half made a pint that was 12% alcohol! I'd like to tell you a story which is typically English. I lived in Harrow for many years and commuted every day on the Jubilee line from Stanmore to Trafalgar square, in the days before it was extended east, so it stopped at each end. Coming home one time in mid December, I got on a full train and saw one guy staggering on-board, obviously coming from his office Christmas party. He slumped across two seats and prompty fell asleep, snoring loudly. You could see the odd murmerings of people making disapproving comments to each other. However, what was hilarious was when we got to Stanmore, a few people moved past him quite quietly, not wanting to wake him up. Before you knew it everybody was tip-toing off the train in the hope he would stay asleep and go back to Trafalgar square.

[@andyleighton6969]

Carling - of the weird metallic aftertaste - founded 1840 in London Ontario. Blame the Canadians!

[@ljmrecords2564]

😂😂😂 she drinking SNAKEBITE without blackcurrant your face while drinking it made me laugh😂

[@Medcanuk]

Memories of eating a full English breakfast sandwich then getting drunk in the car park on pink lambrini then throwing up pink vomit with with sausages and mushrooms in. I miss being 14 lol

[@hairyairey]

No sweetcorn and carrots? How strange!

[@martinhughes2549]

Better out than in..... The mushrooms must have been off...

[@hairyairey]

@@martinhughes2549 you missed the part about being drunk...

[@martinhughes2549]

@@hairyairey A bad pint?

[@hairyairey]

@@martinhughes2549 vomiting comes with drunkenness, it's your body's way to try to reject the alcohol

[@happydog4929]

Thanks, you always put a smile on my face.

[@LaughingAndy]

We used to have a drink called Hooch. Like the WKD it went down far to easily. You could get very drunk and not know about it.

[@colinstock325]

Hooch came out in the 90s and was marketed as alcoholic lemonade.

[@drcl7429]

Remember its not illegal to drink in the UK even under 18. You just can't buy it or drink in pubs (with a couple of well known exceptions)

[@MagnaLynx21]

I'm 29 and I had something like 10 sours shots on Friday and now I feel both sick all over again and judged! Funnily enough the first time I ever had apple sours the first thing I said was "we've found the cure for the common cold" so I'm glad its not just me.

[@DaveBartlett]

Lager Snakebite is still a go to drink for me, when I have some mediocre lager in the house, and an otherwise undrinkable cider. It goes down surprisingly more smoothly than its separate constituent ingredients would do, but for some reason, has a more alcoholic effect!

[@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1]

I once had a spirit made out of Olives. You can't imagine how bad it was

[@tobiasmills9647]

Frosty Jacks is a comparable replacement for white lightning. Both arrive in a 3 litre bottle for less than a litre of water, and neither have seen an apple in their life.

[@tonycasey3183]

I am an old man! As a teen drinker, there wasn't an option for sweet drinks in the 1970s like there is now. Black and Tan was popular pale ale topped with Guinness - Fill a glass halfway with pale ale then add the stout. In West Yorkshire, old men and teenagers would order a pint of Mix - half bitter, half mild. To get hammered (and to see how financially flush their date was) girls would order a brandy and Babycham. Those girls didn't get many second dates unless they flattened some grass with their date!

[@davewright8206]

K best thing you pulled out today , cold very refreshing on a summer day (should be chilled though

[@josephturner4047]

I lived in the East End of Glasgow for a couple of years. Brig'ton Cross. Carlsberg Strong Brew was the refreshment of choice among the deleterious class. I once saw two philosophers knocking seven bales out of each other. They were being watched by a couple of upright and outstanding officers of the law. I approached and enquired as to their intentions? They replied "we're going to arrest the survivor" .

[@thecraggrat]

Think that's actually Carlsberg Special Brew!

[@zapkvr]

Nice story

[@johnmunro4952]

14:00 a lot of booze was reduced in strength in the late 00s. Stella Artois ( wife beater)for example was reduced from 5.2% down to 4.8% . I'm pretty sure Smirnoff Ice was cut from 5/4.5% down to 4%. It's a tax/duty thing which is why Cider ( which is taxed less) is still stronger.

[@davidcox2264]

The favorite from my youth was MD20/20. Can't get it anymore. Sadness. Alanna get a 9 1/2 out of 10 for best burp.😁

[@se4307]

You can still get it. At least you can here in Glasgow.

[@phoenixwills1271]

I love mad dog 20/20 😍... Fruit flavored petrol

[@mikepxg6406]

I love it when you say "not bad" so British...👍