I find unusual spirits interesting, and I want to hear about the ones you have.
Some Victorian kid that died of tuberculosis in the 1800’s. I really wish I could exercise it. Little shit rattles all the bottles at 3am every full moon and it’s annoying as hell.
I’ve heard good stuff about interval training
Linie Aquavit. It is a Scandinavian liquor meaning “water of life”. It is a white spirit infused with botanicals, like gin. Its principal herbs are caraway or dill.
It’s incredible.
I thought you were speaking of ghosts or demons and the like 😂
Yeah I was thinking the ghost of the Windows start menu
A small bottle of the delightfully named Unicum:
Really not sure where it came from, we just found it one day!
Tasted it while visiting Hungary, beloved by the locals. Not being a connoisseur, it tasted to me like the extracted essence from a ton of black pepper seeds into a single ounce of alcohol. Strongest stuff I’ve ever had. They had also a traditional drink with like 85% alcohol. Quite a culture. Lots of warm people.
Hummm, this sure seems like a unique spirit:
It’s exclusive to Hungary. Used as a ‘digestif’ before or after a heavy meal. The formula is a closely held family secret.
They made a movie inspired by the family liquour business: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunshine_(1999_film)
Icelandic lichen liquor. Tastes like forest.
In a good way?
This is the question. “It tastes like the forest: still, slightly sweet air, golden sunlight filtered through emerald leaves, a crystal brook babbling just out of sight” versus “It tastes like the forest. Dirt, rotting undergrowth, and animal shit”.
still, slightly sweet air, golden sunlight filtered through emerald leaves, a crystal brook babbling just out of sight
Honestly, you should write poetry.
Thank you, that’s very kind! However as you can see, half my work isn’t even worth quoting 😋
Is this what you are talking about?
https://www.reykjavikspirits.is/spirits/fjallagrasa-icelandic-schnapps/
Seems interesting
OMG that’s so weird, I need that.
I will see if I can get it myself, sounds very interesting
If you find it, please let me know. I looked around and struck out. It sounds so odd, is like to try it. Perhaps bring it camping to compare its flavor to a forest’s!
I live in Sweden, so our main source of alcohol is the government monopoly Systembolaget, now, I can order alcohol throughout the EU with no customs or any restrictions (as far as I know), but i have no clue where to start, however, Systembolaget are famous for being able to bring in stuff from all over the world on special order, so I’ll probably go through there, but I will keep my eyes open on other sites as I find them.
We could create a community for odd spirits, both for finding and asking about odd spirits…
TheHiddenSpirit could be a decent name…
A corn liquor. It tastes like corn? It tastes wonderful 1:2 with bourbon.
Jeppson’s malort. It tastes like grapefruit and diesel fuel. It’s passable watered down with as much Squirt as you have.
The fellas and I have a gaming weekend once a year. Someone always has Jeppson’s on hand for punishment. Last year you could earn points for drawings every few hours and drinking a FULL shot of Jeppson’s would always get you a bonus entry. The bottle never emptied after 3 days of 20+ lads, it’s that bad.
What if I have a lot of Squirt?
Then you’re in for a very passable Jeppson’s malort.
I have that - Nixta? My sister outlaw gave it to us for Thanksgiving. It smells like caramel corn. I tried it with bourbon, Tuaca, and lemon but the corn flavor was lost in there.
Malort! Ill have another…
I keep this as well, almost exclusivly to torment friends and family. I feel like it tastes like a used wodden clog that somehow got turned into a drink. I dont think its that bad, but I do enjoy playing up its legend.
42 year old schnapps, made by my grandfather in the year I was born.
The most unusual spirit I have in my collection is a raspberry liquer, made from distilled raspberries.
It is called RoslagsHallon and is made a few scandinavian miles borth of where I live by Nortälje Brenneri:
https://www.norrtaljebranneri.se/destillat/roslagshallon/
(Just click “JAG HAR FYLLT 20 ÅR” to get in)
It makes a fantasticly dangerous summer drink when mixed with sprite, you hardly feel the alcohol, but the taste is amazing, with a fairly standard sprite tast first, that explodes into a full raspberry taste with the aftertaste.
I seldom drink, and drink little when I do, but this is brilliant.
Similar to kirchwasser, I’d guess? I love fruit brandies. At various times I’ve drank raspberry, pear, cherry and more common ones like grappa.
I have never tried Kirchwasser, so I don’t know myself, but from the description it is peobably similar
Yeah, I used to get this one. I guess it’s called Himbeergeist?
I have that as well, I have yet to try that one though, and I also have the pear one on one of my lists in Systembolaget and will order it later.
Sounds great!
I had a bottle of Arak from Palestine, that a previous boss had imported, and then gifted to me. It’s anise flavored, clear when warm, looks like a snow globe if you refrigerate it, and turns white when poured over ice. So neat, but it tasted like anise :-P
There’s a liquor from south/southeast Asia also called arak but it’s totally different (not anise flavored, made from coconut or palm sap). Wonder if the etymologies are the same.
I love that stuff! Helps that I like anise. It’s a lot like Ouzo, of course… I first ran into arak at a college bar in Lansing, MI. It’s cool how it turns milky when you add water. A similar spirit is aguardiente, the national liquor of Columbia. Arak is hard to find but I located it in a couple stores in Denver.
Man, I don’t know if it was as potent as it felt, or if it was just the anise flavor making it feel more so, but it seems like a good fit for college town bars 😄
I was so happy to hear that it’s not unusual to serve it on the rocks and/or watered down. He referred to it as some kind of “milk”… “Lion’s milk” maybe? (I maybe should have paid closer attention, but he was kind of a creeper)
I for sure wouldn’t trust some weird dude serving me “lion’s milk”, ha ha. And yeah, in Lansing they served it in a small tumbler on the rocks. It is very strong, I think the bottle I got (which was very ME style and looked awesome) was 90 proof.
Hucked - A Huckleberry Bourbon that is as good as it sounds. It’s by Lolo Creek Distillery out of Lolo, Montana.
Isopropyl
Thats the spirit!
I don’t recommend drinking that…
I don’t drink alcohol of any kind. Hence the submission of the close I have to such.
My uncle doesn’t drink, but still collects small bottles of spirits, but I get you, I mainly find the bottles and liquid beautiful and only drink occasionally.
I will never drink ever again. I have done plenty of dope and no shortage of alchohol quite a while ago. I don’t miss it one bit and If I’m after dope it’ll never be booze.
Drinking alchohol is synonyms to a slow suicide and and self destruction. It makes you stupid and it is like saying out loud that you have shitty memories you can’t, but want to, forget. Not that you will but you will stop caring about yourself and wanting to forget memories.
Come here, I got this big club. I can handle your desire to forget. Just don’t talk about the club, okay?
I see where you are comming from, and while I disagree with some points you make, I am truly happy for you that you have managed to be clean, and I wish you all the best.
I meant no disrespect to your struggles with this thread, but since this is one of the largest communities on lemmy threads about drink and drinking will show up, so I don’t know what you want me to do.
I have no desire to forget in this case, I have never mentioned any club, so I think you are a bit confused.
Again, I am very happy to hear that you have got clean, and I really wish you a bright future, but if you are in this situation, perhaps this thread isn’t for you?
Oh I couldn’t help but take the opportunity to explain the truth of certain decisions. I’m just a complete prick for that kind of thing. And for club, let me just say that this isn’t a real fight beyond this here and now moment. Take it with a sense of mutual respect if you can handle the truth I already laid down. I’d say more but I just want you to see this fight & club. There’s a fantastic movie all about it and if you haven’t seen it, you should and then you’d understand why I just can’t talk about the fight club.
We have a friend who says “There is no problem alcohol cannot make worse.”. I do like cocktails but just one is usually my limit as I don’t really like being drunk. It’s more part of food culture for many of us.
Not for me. Or my respect. Ever.
I’ve been using it (70%) to prep my face before hair removal sessions, soaked onto a cotton ball. But the effect is that I can somewhat taste the stuff. Not terrible, but not good. Intriguing. Which got me to thinking, I wonder how desperate a person would have to be to drink this…
Habanero Brandy Liqueur from Flying Leap Vineyards & Distillery in Elgin, AZ.
It uses a derivative from the production of their Habanero chili wine, the neutral grape spirits they use to sterilize the habaneros that would normally be discarded. The result is undrinkably hot, but they found they could dilute it and combine with a grape brandy and cane simple for a nice spicy result. Not as spicy as you’d think to be honest considering it is habanero.
Goes really well in hot chocolate this time of year.
https://www.flyingleapvineyards.com/product/habanero-brandy-liqueur-200-ml-/
Milk & honey gin. Doesn’t taste like milk, but once the dregs have evaporated, there’s a lingering smell of sweetened condensed milk.
You guys have homes?
Home is where the heart is
Or in this case, the bar.
They tend to be pretty common
Less so, lately.
Depends on the location, but yeah, they have gone up in price…
Becherovka, it’s an herbal alcohol, kind of a cousin to Jägermeister.
Best described as “Christmas in a bottle.”
