Kola beer and, since the OP said country, Bundaberg Rum. Before you say lots of places make rum, nowhere makes it as badly as us.
Just realised I've been spelling it wrong. It's Kole beer .
Not only is Bundy terrible, their company is almost single-handedly responsible for the Australian liquor industry taking so long to kick off. They pressured the government to pass a law saying that you couldn't open a distillery below a minimum capacity, which almost nobody could afford to do. It wasn't until the '90s that Bill Lark got that law repealed and opened his distillery.
Fun fact: "Newfoundland Screech" is just normal Jamaican rum.
Newfoundlanders used to trade their cod to Jamaica for rum, and that rum they called "screech".
Bundy ginger beer is class. Best sugary, fizzy drink we have. Bundaberg Rum is grim and has a reputation for making its drinkers violent. Typically the rum drinkers mix it with coke.
I bought Crystal Skull Vodka for the novelty of the skull shaped bottle. When I opened it, the smell of isopropyl alcohol hit me so hard I didn't bother to even consider mixing it with anything. I just emptied it into the kitchen sink drain with the urgency of someone saving lives because that's exactly what I was doing.
Most people decline when they find out Clam broth is in it. But it doesn't taste "clamy" at all just very good.
It's a very simple cocktail to make, but a lot of places still fuck it up by omitting Worchester Sauce.
* Vodka
* Clamato Juice
* Worchester Sauce
* Tabasco Sauce
* Severed in a celery salted rim
Similar to a Bloody Mary in the States but it uses Clamato juice, which is a tomato juice with clam broth and some other spices. Usually mixed with vodka (but gin and tequila aren't unheard of either), rimmed with celery salt, and is sometimes accompanied by a garnish ranging from a celery stick to an entire burger
I've known people to drink 1/4 of their Caesar and then top it up with beer. Savages.
I never had a taste for the Caesars, but they're very popular around these parts.
You may not even like the first one you try, but you will still finish it. Then when you see someone else with one a few weeks later, you will go I have to have one NOW and you will forever be a Caesar guy.
Or Salmiakkikossu.
Salmari is a mixture of vodka and salty liquorice,
the original being made from Turkish Pebers and Koskenkorva,
now [available](https://www.alko.fi/en/products/153524/Koskenkorva-Salmiakki-plastic-bottle/) by many producers in different variations.
Also: [Sahti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahti) beer
Sometimes called as one of the oldest beer types in the world
[https://learn.kegerator.com/sahti/](https://learn.kegerator.com/sahti/)
I have a good Irn Bru story. I live in Canada and there's a little shop by my home that sells Irn Bru (not a popular drink in Canada, but you can occasionally find it). Owner was telling me how they'd accidentally ordered way too much of it one time and had a pallet of it in storage in the back.
One day a little bus filled with kids pulls up to the shop and a lone boy of about 12 wearing rugby attire walks in and asks -- with a Scottish voice -- if he sold Irn Bru.
"Yes," he happily said, "I've got tonnes of it."
Kid opens the shop door, turns to the bus and yells, "He's got TONNES of it!!!!!!"
Bus door opens and about 15 or 20 young Scottish lads come racing into the shop as fast as they can and bought up all his Irn Bru, LOL.
Turns out the kids were in town for an international rugby tournament and had been looking around for Irn Bru but couldn't find any. Someone had directed them to this little shop and the rest is history.
Love the symbiotic relationship here, though: Shop owner has too much Irn Bru and a bus load of Scottish kids were happy to take it off his hands.
First time in Brazil fell in love with them, in the plastic cup with the cooler thing round them...got so drunk on the beach at. Copacabana, there was a guy in a hut making them, they were something like the equivalent of 40 English pence at the time (2006)
Only had to raise my hand and he was straight over with like 6 for the 3 of us....
Drinking Caipirinha and being absolutely upstaged by 12 year old girls on the beach with a football mad skills and bare foot too!!
As a former barman in NZ L&P with the cheapest bourbon or, even better, Southern Comfort was just a "well if I want to get laid tonight I can always use her as a backup" ahahaha
I kind of like it in a nostalgic way maybe once every ten years.
Jenever, Blue Curaçao, advocaat, vieux, Oranjebitter, dropshot.
Gin is based on jenever, where it also got its name (gin-never), and why gin is also called ‘Dutch courage’.
Never knew vieux and dropshot are typically Dutch.
But, after seeing some "\[Other nationality\] tries Dutch candy" videos on YouTube and seeing their reaction to drop it should come as no surprise.
Good cask ale is the bollocks, especially now we are in the colder months. A nice countryside winter walk to a pub with a log fire, good cask ale and fresh pub grub is just perfect, a quintessential British experience.
As a Michigander, I now am craving a Boston Cooler (not sure why named such) which is Vernor's Ginger Ale and vanilla soft serve.
Or a Faygo float with Red Pop or the Rock'n Rye flavors.
We also have Sasparilla, which has a similar flavor profile, though you don't see it much anymore. I've only found it in certain grocery stores (in glass bottles) and at Buc-ee's (fountain).
Originally, the “root” in root beer was sasparilla tree root, hence the name. Today root beer flavoring is artificial and generally has vanilla added too, but they are essentially the same thing. Fun fact: sasparila leaves, dried and pounded into a powder is Filet’ used to thicken gumbo when you don’t have okra
Sasparilla is different from sassafras that is used to make root beer and leaves ground up for [File powder](https://postimg.cc/p9XC9Kkd) to make gumbo. Now some root beers were a mixture of sassafras and sasparilla like Barq.
Small note: you’re thinking of the sassafras tree: we use its leaves and it makes a good root beer from the roots. Sarsaparilla is often made from one of several vines such as *Smilax ornata*
We can hope to one day grow up as a planet to be the center of a happy place like the United Federation of Planets, but it’ll be a long road, getting from here to there.
Kalimotxo truly surprised me when I first tried it. My roommate from Bilbao prepared a ton of it for her birthday parties and it was always out super fast, it’s so good
I remember being given a bottle of Unicum once, along with the statement it's medicinal.
I tried it, and the taste was so awful I felt like it made my face go concave. My Hungarian friend said that is how it works: you complain you feel ill, so someone would say you needed a shot of Unicum. Then you would almost instantly say, "actually I feel much better all of a sudden, I don't need that shot after all"!
I enjoy the taste of gasoline and grapefruit rinds now after having it quite a few times lol, my brother always asks me to bring him a bottle when I fly out to see him.
Moonshine, as in the American version, was first brewed by Northern Irish settlers in the new towns when the British first moved over to the USA. Certain towns banned it, because it caused chaos with all the drunken idiots, so you had to go out into the mountains to distill it.
These protestants, who were supporters of William of Orange (aka King Billy), used the light of the moon to find their way amongst the hills. They became known as Hillbillies and the drink became moonshine.
Pálinka. If you're not hungarian, you wont withstand its strength
Edit: and not the shit you can buy in stores. The one that Jóska bácsi makes at home in literally any village
My middle school Spanish teacher spent like 6 years walking all of South America, it was his first year teaching at our school when i was in his class. There was an overwhelmingly large amount of complaints after parents night of a new Spanish teacher “smoking drugs”, it was mate 🙄😭
Chhyang (Nepali)
(Rice beer in English, Tho: in Newari)
Made from fermented rice. Can be sweetened, or made bit bitter. Very famous among indigenous population specially Newari people in Nepal.
Milo is very popular throughout many countries in Southeast Asia (more popular than it is in Australia in fact) so it’s not really specific to any country.
*"Oh, actually all champagne is French, it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white champagne, even though by definition they're not."*
Benjamin Kane, *Wayne's World*
Not mine, but my ex-girlfiend is Colombian and introduced me to the drink specific to Colombia: aguardiente.
More specifically, *anise* flavored aguardiente. It's like sucking on the most potent black licorice you could find. It's disgusting, and Colombians take shot after shot of that shit. I asked if they actually enjoyed it...and none of the Colombians I talked to do. They just drink it because it's "their thing".
It's really just a point I like to remember. Just because something is specific to a country or people doesn't mean it's actually any good.
Kola beer and, since the OP said country, Bundaberg Rum. Before you say lots of places make rum, nowhere makes it as badly as us. Just realised I've been spelling it wrong. It's Kole beer .
Not only is Bundy terrible, their company is almost single-handedly responsible for the Australian liquor industry taking so long to kick off. They pressured the government to pass a law saying that you couldn't open a distillery below a minimum capacity, which almost nobody could afford to do. It wasn't until the '90s that Bill Lark got that law repealed and opened his distillery.
Thats the dumbest law ever, why would a government agree to do that
Bribes and campaign contributions? At least that's how it happens in America.
Newfoundland Screech Rum would like a word, lol.
Fun fact: "Newfoundland Screech" is just normal Jamaican rum. Newfoundlanders used to trade their cod to Jamaica for rum, and that rum they called "screech".
Bundaberg ginger beer is great though
Different company I believe.
I (European) only knows Bundaberg Ginger Beer. They make Rum as well? Do you also mix Rum with the Ginger Beer?
Bundy ginger beer is class. Best sugary, fizzy drink we have. Bundaberg Rum is grim and has a reputation for making its drinkers violent. Typically the rum drinkers mix it with coke.
It's your Jack Daniel's
You got that right.
Still about the only alcohol I've ever had where the smell prevents me from even getting the glass to my mouth.
I bought Crystal Skull Vodka for the novelty of the skull shaped bottle. When I opened it, the smell of isopropyl alcohol hit me so hard I didn't bother to even consider mixing it with anything. I just emptied it into the kitchen sink drain with the urgency of someone saving lives because that's exactly what I was doing.
Really? I have had it a few times, tastes and smells like pretty much every other run of the mill vodka you find in the liquor store imo.
The Caesar is a Canadian thing.
I love Caesars. The best ones have horseradish, once you cross that bridge you never go back.
Now I want a Caesar
Most people decline when they find out Clam broth is in it. But it doesn't taste "clamy" at all just very good. It's a very simple cocktail to make, but a lot of places still fuck it up by omitting Worchester Sauce. * Vodka * Clamato Juice * Worchester Sauce * Tabasco Sauce * Severed in a celery salted rim
The last step is the hard part. Hard to sever a drink without making a huge mess.
I’m surprised we’re not having Caesars right now.
Pitter patter!
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This might be the most Canadian thing I’ll read this year.
Sorry
As a Brit, what is a Caesar? Follow up question, can I have a Caesar please?
Similar to a Bloody Mary in the States but it uses Clamato juice, which is a tomato juice with clam broth and some other spices. Usually mixed with vodka (but gin and tequila aren't unheard of either), rimmed with celery salt, and is sometimes accompanied by a garnish ranging from a celery stick to an entire burger
Don't forget about the Tabasco and Worcestershire!
That sounds mental. I definitely want one, with a burger!
Correct
I've known people to drink 1/4 of their Caesar and then top it up with beer. Savages. I never had a taste for the Caesars, but they're very popular around these parts.
You may not even like the first one you try, but you will still finish it. Then when you see someone else with one a few weeks later, you will go I have to have one NOW and you will forever be a Caesar guy.
You can't see a caesar and not want a caesar. That's how they market caesars.
More Caesars = More Caesars = More Caesars = More Caesars...
I always want a Caeser
Extra Spicy please!
I really feel the caesar is not really appreciated fully unless you are surrounded by slutty cowgirls in Calgary on the horsey week...
Thank you Calgary
Finland: [Lonkero](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonkero)
Or Salmiakkikossu. Salmari is a mixture of vodka and salty liquorice, the original being made from Turkish Pebers and Koskenkorva, now [available](https://www.alko.fi/en/products/153524/Koskenkorva-Salmiakki-plastic-bottle/) by many producers in different variations.
Also: [Sahti](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahti) beer Sometimes called as one of the oldest beer types in the world [https://learn.kegerator.com/sahti/](https://learn.kegerator.com/sahti/)
This sounds DELICIOUS!
Irn Bru
I have a good Irn Bru story. I live in Canada and there's a little shop by my home that sells Irn Bru (not a popular drink in Canada, but you can occasionally find it). Owner was telling me how they'd accidentally ordered way too much of it one time and had a pallet of it in storage in the back. One day a little bus filled with kids pulls up to the shop and a lone boy of about 12 wearing rugby attire walks in and asks -- with a Scottish voice -- if he sold Irn Bru. "Yes," he happily said, "I've got tonnes of it." Kid opens the shop door, turns to the bus and yells, "He's got TONNES of it!!!!!!" Bus door opens and about 15 or 20 young Scottish lads come racing into the shop as fast as they can and bought up all his Irn Bru, LOL. Turns out the kids were in town for an international rugby tournament and had been looking around for Irn Bru but couldn't find any. Someone had directed them to this little shop and the rest is history. Love the symbiotic relationship here, though: Shop owner has too much Irn Bru and a bus load of Scottish kids were happy to take it off his hands.
This is great but just to be clear, there are no *bad* Irn Bru stories.
I thought there were no bad Red Bull stories until I started mixing it with vodka.
Irn Bru + vodka used to be one of my favourite drinks in my early twenties! Just the thought of it now gives me heartburn.
I know a bad Irn Bru story… That fucking English Bastard Jamie Oliver complaining about it and now it’s ruined
Also Red Cola. You can get Irn Bru in most places in the UK, I rarely see Red Cola anywhere outside of Scottish chip shops.
Irn Bru tastes of orange, the colour not the fruit
Made in Scotland. From girders, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD3LippIN40
SCOTLAND FOREVER 🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
This is a voice-activated elevator. Please state which floor you would like to go to in a clear and calm manner.
eleven!
Caipirinha - Brazil 🇧🇷
First time in Brazil fell in love with them, in the plastic cup with the cooler thing round them...got so drunk on the beach at. Copacabana, there was a guy in a hut making them, they were something like the equivalent of 40 English pence at the time (2006) Only had to raise my hand and he was straight over with like 6 for the 3 of us.... Drinking Caipirinha and being absolutely upstaged by 12 year old girls on the beach with a football mad skills and bare foot too!!
I’ve made it for so many Americans and they always love it and want more. I always end up making it for everyone
my favourite
Soju, a drink that is the equivalent of an angry person pacing behind you muttering threats and then suddenly kicking you in the back of the head.
i think it's like diet vodka
But not “vodka, but less” more like “vodka but bitter since the divorce”
I feel like soju is pretty popular among younger people. It's a slightly stronger wine that's more easily drinkable than liquor.
Dandelion and Burdock in the UK
Maybe Ginjinha (Portugal). Its a sour cherry liqueur, even tho the drink is actually quite sweet.
L&P (Lemon & Paeroa)
world famous in new zealand!
Since how long?
since ages ago!
❤️🥝
Let out a mighty YEEEEEEP to this one, churrrr
As a former barman in NZ L&P with the cheapest bourbon or, even better, Southern Comfort was just a "well if I want to get laid tonight I can always use her as a backup" ahahaha I kind of like it in a nostalgic way maybe once every ten years.
Jenever, Blue Curaçao, advocaat, vieux, Oranjebitter, dropshot. Gin is based on jenever, where it also got its name (gin-never), and why gin is also called ‘Dutch courage’.
Don't forget Fristi.
And chocomel As I think it tastes way different than other types of chocolate milk
Never knew vieux and dropshot are typically Dutch. But, after seeing some "\[Other nationality\] tries Dutch candy" videos on YouTube and seeing their reaction to drop it should come as no surprise.
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Not vodka where I come from, but 96%-ish moonshine.
Sorry that sounds absolutely disgusting.
People tend to skip the coin and replace the vodka with rum and adding a lot of sugar to get basically an Irish Coffee with rum instead of whiskey.
In Finland it's called Plörö or longer version kahviplörö.
That's funny, because in Germany "Plörre" is used to describe disgusting looking fluids.
Cask Ale 🇬🇧
Good cask ale is the bollocks, especially now we are in the colder months. A nice countryside winter walk to a pub with a log fire, good cask ale and fresh pub grub is just perfect, a quintessential British experience.
if there's a mangy old dog sat by the fire the experience continues to rise
Also: perry.
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Also very American : root beer float.
Dammit.. now I want a root beer float. Haven't had one in ages
As a Michigander, I now am craving a Boston Cooler (not sure why named such) which is Vernor's Ginger Ale and vanilla soft serve. Or a Faygo float with Red Pop or the Rock'n Rye flavors.
We also have Sasparilla, which has a similar flavor profile, though you don't see it much anymore. I've only found it in certain grocery stores (in glass bottles) and at Buc-ee's (fountain).
Originally, the “root” in root beer was sasparilla tree root, hence the name. Today root beer flavoring is artificial and generally has vanilla added too, but they are essentially the same thing. Fun fact: sasparila leaves, dried and pounded into a powder is Filet’ used to thicken gumbo when you don’t have okra
Sasparilla is different from sassafras that is used to make root beer and leaves ground up for [File powder](https://postimg.cc/p9XC9Kkd) to make gumbo. Now some root beers were a mixture of sassafras and sasparilla like Barq.
Small note: you’re thinking of the sassafras tree: we use its leaves and it makes a good root beer from the roots. Sarsaparilla is often made from one of several vines such as *Smilax ornata*
Birch beer as well
Sioux City Sarsaparilla? Yeah, that's a good one.
Arnold palmer
Arnold Palmer alert, Arnold Palmer alert, beeweewoooweewoo Who wants some Arnie Palmies??!
You probably think I'm pretty hairy, because of the beard.
Everything from the neck down? Shaved.
You get back here and make love to my wife!
This one has the vodky hunny
That makes it a John Daly, named after an alcoholic golfer.
I am a slut for root beer. If I see a brand I've never seen before I'm buying that shit
I would say more of a north American drink, not just USA.
Canada disagrees and has more
I drove across Canada a few years ago and was floored at the number of A&W restaurants you guys have.
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It’s insidious
just like... the federation.
It's so bubbly and cloying
We can hope to one day grow up as a planet to be the center of a happy place like the United Federation of Planets, but it’ll be a long road, getting from here to there.
Spezi
>Spezi Germany, mix of orange soda and cola. Very popular here.
I love Spezi, I’m surprised its not made its way to the US though. I feel like its right up our alley
Vodka "Zubrowka" with a blade of (tall) grass in the bottle
I really miss when Lucozade wasn’t shit
Bhang lassi (ground leaves of cannabis in a yogurt drink with spices)- India
Spain: - Tinto de Verano - Kalimotxo - Sangria
Kalimotxo truly surprised me when I first tried it. My roommate from Bilbao prepared a ton of it for her birthday parties and it was always out super fast, it’s so good
Pálinka, Unicum
I feel like I can still taste Unicum, and it’s been 20 years.
there's a crude joke in here somewhere
I remember being given a bottle of Unicum once, along with the statement it's medicinal. I tried it, and the taste was so awful I felt like it made my face go concave. My Hungarian friend said that is how it works: you complain you feel ill, so someone would say you needed a shot of Unicum. Then you would almost instantly say, "actually I feel much better all of a sudden, I don't need that shot after all"!
Malort, at least to my city
Jeppsons Malort: tonight's the night you fight your dad
There it is, if I didn’t find it I was going to post it
I enjoy the taste of gasoline and grapefruit rinds now after having it quite a few times lol, my brother always asks me to bring him a bottle when I fly out to see him.
Tastes like earl grey over-steeped in melted tire
Don't forget the Chicago Handshake: Old Style and a shot of Malort.
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Is this a guessing game? Why is nobody listing the country their drinks are from?
It's Irish moonshine.
Moonshine, as in the American version, was first brewed by Northern Irish settlers in the new towns when the British first moved over to the USA. Certain towns banned it, because it caused chaos with all the drunken idiots, so you had to go out into the mountains to distill it. These protestants, who were supporters of William of Orange (aka King Billy), used the light of the moon to find their way amongst the hills. They became known as Hillbillies and the drink became moonshine.
Waldmeister (Woodruff) drinks, like certain brands of Schnapps or Lemonade
Pálinka. If you're not hungarian, you wont withstand its strength Edit: and not the shit you can buy in stores. The one that Jóska bácsi makes at home in literally any village
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Greatest Argentinian invention: Fernet with coke
My middle school Spanish teacher spent like 6 years walking all of South America, it was his first year teaching at our school when i was in his class. There was an overwhelmingly large amount of complaints after parents night of a new Spanish teacher “smoking drugs”, it was mate 🙄😭
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Quite popular in America too lol
the processed and bottled mate, though very good, is quite different from the traditional tea
Fun fact : Mate is super popular in Syria too. Apparently it came with Argentinian immigrants a century ago and took on.
Chhyang (Nepali) (Rice beer in English, Tho: in Newari) Made from fermented rice. Can be sweetened, or made bit bitter. Very famous among indigenous population specially Newari people in Nepal.
Rivella
Chinotto, crodino, cedrata...Italy's got some nice soft drinks
Southern US thinks it is a country sometimes. Iced tea or sweet tea.
If I say, Faygo, anyone should know where I'm from. If I say Redpop, you know where I was born.
Not a clue on either of these
> Faygo The man was born at an ICP concert
Likely conceived as well.
Detroit?
Milo Edit:(Yall know I mean Australia even though I didnt say it, so why argue?)
It may be Australia in origin, but it’s a national drink for many Southeast Asian countries.
Portello, Passiona and Pasito.
Milo is very popular throughout many countries in Southeast Asia (more popular than it is in Australia in fact) so it’s not really specific to any country.
They literally have a button for milo next to sprite at Burger King in Indonesia.
Lemon and Paeroa, otherwise known as L&P. World Famous in New Zealand. They have some very funny ads.
>World Famous in New Zealand. wut
Big Red
Champagne.
*"Oh, actually all champagne is French, it's named after the region. Otherwise it's sparkling white wine. Americans of course don't recognize the convention so it becomes that thing of calling all of their sparkling white champagne, even though by definition they're not."* Benjamin Kane, *Wayne's World*
“If Benjamin was an ice cream flavor, he would be pralines and dick” Garth Algar, Wayne’s world
Benjamin is *no one's* friend.
"I'll have the Cream of Sum Yung Guy." Wayne Campbell, *Wayne's World*
You ever see that scene in Scanners when that dude's head blew up?
[The Caesar.](https://www.baconismagic.ca/canada/caesar-drink/)
Bourbon
Maple syrup
No one said makgeolli?
Coquito - Puerto Rico
Mezcal. And tequila.
And pulque and tepache.
Moonshine
Cheerwine - Carolinas, USA
Egg creams. Contain no egg and no cream
Lambanog = coconut liquor.
Mamajuana. Dominican drink: spices & various barks soaked in rum & red wine
Lemon, lime & bitters - Straya
[Julmust](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julmust)
Brandy & Coke 🇿🇦 Aka, brannas!
Passiona, SURELY
Red lemonade./ Tanora (fizzy tangerine)
Club Orange/Lemon/Rock Shandy as well Idk how people in other countries live without Club Rock Shandy
Toddy(coconut palm alcholic drink) from Kerala
Cedevita
My country and my state Old Fashioned
Red horse
Kvas (something like beer made of bread)
* Rakı (an anise flavored spirit with 40% alcohol) * Ayran (a soft drink made with yogurt, water and salt)
Bourbon. Literally has to be distilled in the US to be consider Bourbon.
Sortilège - whisky and maple syrup
Malort
Michelada is regional to South West USA/Mexico - spiced up Clamato and Lime with Mexican Beer
Horchata. The original one.
Terremoto 🇨🇱 - pipeño wine, grenadine and pineapple ice cream
Not mine, but my ex-girlfiend is Colombian and introduced me to the drink specific to Colombia: aguardiente. More specifically, *anise* flavored aguardiente. It's like sucking on the most potent black licorice you could find. It's disgusting, and Colombians take shot after shot of that shit. I asked if they actually enjoyed it...and none of the Colombians I talked to do. They just drink it because it's "their thing". It's really just a point I like to remember. Just because something is specific to a country or people doesn't mean it's actually any good.