Yep. Never had it before last Thursday and had the pear one at my 21st, loved it and then got the crushed apple on NYE, so good.

The Apple and Pear blend is pretty awesome too. Slightly higher alcohol content and they come in a longneck.

What's the best thing to add to cheap crappy vodka to make it taste less cheap and crappy?

Orange Juice

More cheap and Crappy vodka.

Cranberry Juice is meant to be good for mixing where you don't really want to taste any alco.

FNQ lager is woeful. Slight beer taste in otherwise a bottle of mineral water. Townsville Bitter on the other hand is a good drop. Shame DMs don't stock it.

Yeah, nah, tastes like cough medicine :lol:

Will give both orange and cranberry juice a go in future (Y)

Been drinking a lot of American Honey and Coke lately.

My English ancestors are disgusted in me.

Need an idea for alcohol during Uni thats fairly cost effective, but is good. Staying away from the usual stuff, recommend me some solid beer and spirits!

Had a few Growler American Brown Ales the other night, very delicious. I think they're made by 2 Brothers brewery in Melbourne

TLDR;

Black Russians <3

-PB

Cheap crappy Vodka is going to give you a nasty hangover. Mix it with a good orange juice (something like Nudie Juice), which will give you a buttload of vitamins and ease the hangover. Unless that Vodka is Mishka, in which case you're doomed.

Best value for money is either Russian Standard Vodka and Pure Blonde.

If you mix American Honey and redbull together it tastes like Frosty Flakes.

I don't drink enough to get a hangover :lol:

For some reason I LOVE CC and Dry but when I have Canadian Club and Coke I really don't dig the mixture... CC just goes really well with Dry only for me.

Can confirm I spent first year at uni living off Pure Blonde, second year goon was the staple and probably will be for third too. I know it tastes like shit and pretty much is shit, but you do get used to goon eventually and as far as cost and potency goes it definitely does the job, I've found Multi V juice to be an excellent taste masker, or once you get used to the taste cut it with some flat lemonade.

Lemonade or OJ are the way to go if you don't like the taste of your shitty goon.

CC and dry is a billion times better than with coke. Have you had it in a bottle v can? It goes flat so much faster in a bottle for some reason :? There's a place in Melbourne that has CC and Dry on tap. It's amazing.

:lol: righto. I can drink Vodka or Cider all night and have no problems. 2-3 gins and I'm seedy the next day.

Pure Blonde is by far one of the best Aussie mainstream lagers out there. They're great out of stubbies, but I can't stomach it off tap. :-&

I actually don't mind it off tap. Out of a can is pretty horrid. Mind you, most beer is horrid in cans.

Where I work it's horribly watery. Can't ever get a decent head on it either. Yeah, most beer out of cans is bad, Blonde goes flat in minutes. Carlton Draught isn't too bad out of cans.

I'd say that'd be down to your work watering down the kegs more than anything.

Recommendations for good but not too pricey cider + spirits?

Mercury Cider is cheap as and i'd rate it as above average

Depends on what you'd call "Good". I know people who like Strongbow. What's your budget/slab?

I'm a fan of Rochdale cider at the moment.

My local Dan Murpheys doesn't appear to be stocking imported beers anywhere near as regularly as they used to. While the likes of Carlsberg and wife beater have gone, now the likes of imported Becks and Heineken are rarely found too. The only imported beers at my local Dan Murphey's are now Peroni (hey at least that's back), Hollandia and Lowenbrau both of which are made only in Holland and Germany respectively.

So, my question to you is this: is it just my local Dan Murpheys? Are you noticing the lack of imported beers?

The problem is that many of your larger European Breweries have had their brewing rights purchased by Lion Nathan and subsequently most of these euro-lagers (Stella, Carlsberg, Heineken and Becks as well as the likes of Kirin and Budweiser) are brewed in Sydney "under licence". Which results in inferior product, added foaming agents and preservatives, and a cataclysmic hangover (hence Afro's recent affinity for NZ ciders).

They used to have the licensed rubbish and the imported beers though, now it looks like they're phasing out the real imported beers.

I would've been about 2 weeks ago and it seemed like they still had all they usually do but i'll usually go something aussie so i probably wouldn't be as perceptive to changes

They've been phasing them out gradually over the past couple of years.

I'm just worried that this may be the last few months we see imported beers. Used to be able to get them regularly even while they had licensed beers but now that choice is disappearing. Haven't found an imported becks or heineken for at least a month now.

First Choice usually stocks the imported beers.