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Tomorrow I am 18 and on Saturday I am going on a pub crawl. I would like to know what drinks would you suggest I should try?

I'd love to help, but I really have no inkling as to what goes on on the pubs over there.

I love that your drinking age is 18 though. The US is rather lame in that department.

Baby Guinness.

Shot glass, fill 70% with Tia maria, then gently top it with baileys poured onto a spoon. Floats on top and creates a white head.

Astounding once drank in one shot, seriously. Jaeger bombs are also fantastic.

Genestealer surprise:
http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/40k_Shots_-_Get_Drunk_to_a_Theme

I second Jaeger Bombs ! Sambuka is a popular shor choice, Apple sourz uhm lager, beer, vodka mixers, wine if your a classy man. Smirnoff ice, WKD, alco pops if your a WOMAN! *ahem* All I can think of at the moment

Word of warning Drink atleast a pint of water before you go to bed, best way to avoid some mega hangovers, especially after your 18th, I had a pub crawl for mine the hangover was not so nice in the morning :\

I could go on, yes I have been on many nights out to know this sort of thing

Enjoy your 18th

Seconding Wolf's word of warning. Another option is to mix hard spirits into fresh smoothie once you start getting tipsy.

It's delicious and the fruit massively prevents hangovers while still getting you completely smashed.

Tried and tested! Large bottle of vodka and 2 cartons smoothie, no hangover

Edit: British again? Auugh D:

Monster Rain wrote:I'd love to help, but I really have no inkling as to what goes on on the pubs over there.

I love that your drinking age is 18 though. The US is rather lame in that department.

REALLY [redacted by moderator] tickling

On my 18th I drank a lot of snakebite (lager, cider and a splash of blackcurrant).

Jagermeister. That or Jager Bombs.

Tried an electric lemonade once. Was quite nice. No idea what was in it I just liked the name.

I suggest you stick to the traditional one pint of beer per pub. You will probably get to around six or eight pubs.

That is quite enough for an evening, especially if you are not used to drinking.

Watch out for your friends spiking your beer with vodka. It is tasteless and colourless so it is hard to detect in another drink, but you will get very drunk, very quickly.

Kilkrazy wrote:I suggest you stick to the traditional one pint of beer per pub. You will probably get to around six or eight pubs.

That is quite enough for an evening, especially if you are not used to drinking.

Watch out for your friends spiking your beer with vodka. It is tasteless and colourless so it is hard to detect in another drink, but you will get very drunk, very quickly.

Yes, I would echo KK's sentiments to the letter. It's your 18th, you sound like you haven't been to pubs before, or at least on a pub-crawl - people will try to get you smashed because they think it's hilarious. Haha. Yes, alchohol poisoning IS hilarious. Not.

A kid of 19 from up my way died after downing a pint of vodka on a night out. Don't let your mates pressure you into drinking more than you can handle. Bearing in mind you might not actually KNOW what your limits are, it's best to err on the side of caution. Of course you want to go and get properly pissed-up with your mates - what Brit doesn't wan't to do that? Hell, I'm nursing a hangover right now from the house/dinner party I was at last night. Highlights include me waving a bunch of flowers around my head whilst dancing and singing to The Smiths. Alone. Erm, but that's another story...

My point is, fine, get sloshed - it's your birthday! Just don't drink something that could send you to casualty purely because your mates think its 'a laugh'.

Have a pint in each pub - that's plenty.

Come to Edinburgh.

Go into The Banshee's Labyrinth on Niddry Street (just down the Royal Mile, a little after George IV Bridge) and get this...



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Didn't get one myself, as being a hairy goth type, my image cannot suffer me being caught drinking a Cocktail!

Albatross wrote:

Kilkrazy wrote:I suggest you stick to the traditional one pint of beer per pub. You will probably get to around six or eight pubs.

That is quite enough for an evening, especially if you are not used to drinking.

Watch out for your friends spiking your beer with vodka. It is tasteless and colourless so it is hard to detect in another drink, but you will get very drunk, very quickly.

........................................................................................Flowery Smiths Dance..............................................................................Have a pint in each pub - that's plenty.

QFT.

Best to learn this lesson now, unless you want to be replastering your shoes in the gutter two hours after you start; learn to stick to you guns. If you don't want it or it smells/tastes funny don't drink it.

This scenario happened to my mate last night down the rugby club after his best mate spiked his yard of guiness. The tosser put a pint of port in with it and suffice to say the birthday boy didn't make it past 8PM, not a great birthday! We're all early to late 30's so have quite a bit of drinking under our belts (and hanging over in some of our cases ) and I'm happy enough to admit that 6-8 pints will get me rockin' and I'm 6'+ and 20 stone. So don't rsh to get smashed, it a marathon not a sprint as my old man would say.

That being said the drink du jour in the more salubrious saloons of Essex is the Magnarbomb - Pint o cider + Jagerbomb

I was drinking these with the young dandies of the club last night and they seemed to be thouroughly enjoy them going down, not so much coming up though.

Good luck and happy birthday

P.S.

Hands up who actually remembers their 18th themselves?

Mine involved someone getting almost thrown in a river, me spidermanning it up the side of the pub, breaking a Train Seat, and pebble dashing the dancefloor in a dive the next town over.

All this has been relayed to me by third parties. I recall nothing.

Hmmm 16 years ago. I'm geting ..........................nothing?

Mr Mystery wrote:P.S.

Hands up who actually remembers their 18th themselves?

Mine involved someone getting almost thrown in a river, me spidermanning it up the side of the pub, breaking a Train Seat, and pebble dashing the dancefloor in a dive the next town over.

All this has been relayed to me by third parties. I recall nothing.

I don't even know what pebble dashing is, but it sounds spectacular.

Pebble dashing is texturing a wall with pebbles, ussually on the exterior of a house. How you do it on a dancefloor on your eighteenth I don't know.

Well, in the opposite of normal gravity, what went down had to come up on my 18th, and as I meandered to find the lavvy, I crossed the dance floor, got bumped, started spinning and like Nurgle's own Lawn Sprinkler, leading to me thoughtfully and selflessly shared the bounty of my stomach. With everyone in a 6 foot radius.

And apparently didn't get chucked out.

Edited for appalling grammar and prose.

Oh I see so "pebble dashing" is a metaphor for a kind of tornado vomit, got ya.

Well it's any kind of vomit really, just mine was particularly spectacular.

!8th birthdays in the US usually involve cigarettes and porn; whether or not you actually smoke.

Europe, and Canada, does it better.

Porn? What because legality and porn are best of friends now?

'Hmm, I do want to watch Revenge of the Anal Craving Crack Whores 5 but something tells me I'll enjoy it much more when it's legal for me to do so. In fact why don't I have a big ol sesh on my eighteenth brithday to celebrate this right of passage into an age of guilt free adult entertainment!.'

Mr Mystery wrote:Well it's any kind of vomit really, just mine was particularly spectacular.

Ah, where I'm from 'pebble-dashing' is what you do to a toilet bowl several hours after a particularly potent curry.


@notprop - So what you're effectively saying is 'don't drink like mattyrm did at Warhammer World during Silver Sorceror? Gotcha.


Seriously - 13 pints, and literally 3 stolen chips from Legoburner's plate to eat all day, leads to walking home in the pouring rain having lost an entire Ultramarine army, then falling into a naked drunken stupor at 8pm in your (SHARED! ) hotel room. Saying that, I found it pretty amusing - but then I'm a total arsehole.

whatwhat wrote:Porn? What because legality and porn are best of friends now?

'Hmm, I do want to watch Revenge of the Anal Craving Crack Whores 5 but something tells me I'll enjoy it much more when it's legal for me to do so. In fact why don't I have a big ol sesh on my eighteenth brithday.'

It's fun to buy at a store, legally though. At least at that age. Same with anything that you can't buy until you reach a certain age.

I would drink lots of Vodka and gin.

RUM!! ARRGH!

whatwhat wrote:Oh I see so "pebble dashing" is a metaphor for a kind of tornado vomit, got ya.

That made me laugh. Nice one.


OP enjoy your birthday. And REALLY follow the not too much drinking advice. On my 21st, I drank to much and to many varieties and got really friggin sick. It took a good week, and a doctors visit to get better from it

Good to see some sensible posters here advising just a pint or 2 in each pub. I would also suggest trying some traditional ales. Of course if you are feeling ok at the end of the night it's fine to end the night with something special.

I've always been partial to starting the night with a screaming dead nazi. Its a double shot thats made of equal parts Rumple Minze, Bacardi 151, and Jagermeister. Just limit yourself to one though since you intend on going to multiple pubs. They pack quite a punch.

As I revealed yesterday to the DCM mosh pit forum in the current alcohol related thread; the one and only drink of true champions is methylated spirits and red cordial.