And I thought Buckie was a town on the Scottish coast

[the white rabbit]

As a keen pro-am drinker, this has passed me by:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5381360.stm

Quote from BBC News:
''At £5 for a 750ml bottle, it is cheap but powerful - alcohol content is 15% - and considered a rite of passage by many an ambitious young drinker.
"It tended to precede a rather spectacular night, because it's horribly potent," recalls Paul, a former student at Manchester.
But it is the drink's prevalence in the so-called Buckfast Triangle - an area east of Glasgow between Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld - that has raised concerns....
...More seriously, there have been calls to have it sold in plastic bottles, because of the mess created by broken ones on the street, and, in court, it has been implicated, along with vodka, in one car crash death in Doune, north of Stirling.''

Have to give it a go, if it can be got hold off after this bigging-up. Anything to help along a 'special' evening :drink:

[Duck-man]

It rotten stuff!!

I was away in the middle of nowhere and we ran out of beer!! :shock: (clearly an amture move but we didnt think we would drink THAT much)

And someone had a bottle of it.

It was rank!! so we mixed it with milk! (i still hav no idea why?? :roll: ) went sort of pink like strawberry milkshake!!

Needless to say it was still as bad!! :smt078

[the white rabbit]

It was rank!! so we mixed it with milk! (i still hav no idea why?? :roll: ) went sort of pink like strawberry milkshake!!

Quality attempt :thumbsup:

[El Saxo]

I've been known to partake of the odd bottle of bucky during my student days - makes for a very cheap night, but the hangovers are f***ing excruciating!!

I can only liken it to downing about a litre and a half of vodka & red bull, gets you really ****ed but the high caffeine content means you're completely wired at the same time...

:smt078

[northwind]

Devil's own drink... Except it can't be, it's made by monks :)

[chazzyb]

Buckie - not many boats left in the fishing fleet in the harbour when I was last there. Shame, Morayshire's nice.

Booze: weight for weight, whisky's cheaper!

[the white rabbit]

Buckie - not many boats left in the fishing fleet in the harbour when I was last there. Shame, Morayshire's nice.


Shame indeed. I used to like it all along there (lived in Rothes aged 5-9) and been back but not for ages and ages.

[husky03]

vile minging stuff-spill it at your own risk-smells as bad as it tastes-one bottle and never ever again :reaper: !!

husky

[timwilky]

Reminds me of Benedictine that became popular in the ex serviceman's clubs of east Lancs after the great war. Many of the Pals regiments found that the only alcohol they could get their hands on was Benedictine from the local monastery. Those few who survived the horror came back with a taste for it.

[Sir Trev]

If you can find it try the Cuvee van de Keizer from Het Anker. You may have to go to Mechelen in Belgium to get it (nice town - worth the trip).

http://www.hetanker.be/pag_en/index_nl.html

Lovely taste and 12 percent. The other beers in their range are also great. I'm lucky that half my team are based there and get to visit every now and then. We had a guided tour once which was excellent and they said that the weakest beer in their range, the Blusser, was given to sick children. I'm not entirely sure if our host was joking or not...

Part of the site is a hotel too. Cheap and cheerful but some rooms look into the brewhouse!