sr72 said:
zoiderella
At my student union (London, not Bristol) they did a scrumpy called "Old Rosie", was about 9%. Evil stuff, drank several pints of it once and was chucking up the remainder of the weekend!
One night a barman at the union was serving a young lady I was seeing, and in his (failed) attempt to impress her came up with an unholy concoction... so evil, so taboo... so, so WRONG, yet so, so GOOD.
Snakebite and black, made with half a pint of Old Rosie, half a pint of that Elephant Brew beer (8% or thereabouts), plus a shot of blackcurrant. I suppose he could have used Cassis, but that would have been rough.
It tasted just like any other snakebite and black, but it did what it did far more quickly owing to its double strength!
As I recall, around 1998 lots of pubs wouldn't serve snakebite and black, claiming it was illegal. But lots of other pubs did, and still do. Must have been one of these urban legends, that a lot of barstaff/managers heard and assumed to be true. Either that or they just didn't like the people who drank it! I never figured out how a blend of three perfectly legal drinks would then become illegal