buckfast wine

Truly disgusting, no wonder all the Scots are mental.

:x

it gets you very very drunk and you have the urge to wear a silly dress and want to go marching in a argentina top,hth

tastes good chilled, can also be smashed over someones head afterwards.

The main diet of many people liviing in the Airdire/Coatbridge area is Buckfast. A few years ago a local wanted to erect a statue made out of empty Buckfast bottles but was refused permission by the local council.

slum champagne.

very much a weegie pastime

still enjoy the odd bottle.
lovely with malibu and milk :)

I've only ever had one bottle, pretty much forced to finish it in some kind of mental drinking game. All the bottles are numbered differently can someone explain why?

It also says on the back (or did when I tried it about 12 years ago) 'The name "tonic wine" is not intend to imply any therapeutic or health-giving properties'

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lower the number the better.
although some argue the 5-8 are the best bottles i go for the 1 being best.
most likely some auld sh1te you talk when drinking it.
however the theory is that the bottles are numbered as to when they are taken from the cask.
hence 1 being the 1st , and an argument for the 5th to 8th bottle having better qualities as the top is skimmed off.
down beyond the 17 numbers you are into the dreaded toenails of the cask.

wreck the hoose juice

I've never tried it, but surely it can't be worse than the Pink Zinfandel they put in my Betfair Hamper?

I think the number denotes the number of monks that have knocked one out into the bottle.

Lived in Blackpool, few mates Scottish and asked them but no answer........Why is bucky so popular there?

flatliner 18 Jan 16:53
Lived in Blackpool, few mates Scottish and asked them but no answer........Why is bucky so popular there?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/buckfast-the-iconic-tonic-goes-from-strength-to-strength-914548.html

"At little over £5 for a 750ml bottle, Buckfast is cheap, and with 15 per cent alcohol content, it's potent."

Q.E.D.

When Rangers came to Manchester for the Uefa cup final the streets were littered with empty crates of buckfast for days

It's not cheap. £5.50 is as cheap as you'll get. They could get drunker for less buying vodka, cider or sherry.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hmA0lC67agoS2XSN8hvGJQZNIjow

The tonic wine Buckfast has been mentioned in 5,000 crime reports by Scotland's biggest police force in the last three years, a BBC investigation has revealed.

Almost one in 10 of those crimes in the Strathclyde Police force area was violent, according to figures obtained by the broadcaster under Freedom of Information legislation.

During that period the Buckfast bottle was used as a weapon 114 times.

Police said the figures suggested there is an association between Buckfast and violence.

The findings are revealed in the programme BBC Scotland Investigates: The Buckfast Code tonight.

During the programme Superintendent Bob Hamilton of Strathclyde Police was asked whether the figures mean that Buckfast can be said to be associated with violence.

He replied: "I think it's clear from the figures that there is an association there."

He added: "The figures are fairly clear that Buckfast is mentioned in a number of crime reports and over the period requested, the Buckfast bottle was used 114 times as a weapon."

Buckfast is produced by Benedictine monks in a Devon monastery.

The investigation also looks at the ingredients of the drink and how they may affect the behaviour of consumers, potentially making them anxious and aggressive if drunk in large quantities.

£6 for a bottle here, no it's not cheap at all

I know a Greek red wine with 15% alcohol content for £3 in Asda, and its sweet and easier down the throat than Buckfast.

Buckfast is popular here cos it's very easy to drink and it has a screw top bottle rather than a cork, though quite expensive for a wine.

But also if you pour Buckie down an empty coca-cola bottle, it looks like yer drinking coke, so you can walk anywhere you like and drink out the coke bottle when you're really drinking buckie

I done that today for example

looking at your article, I certainly do not blame Buckfast itself for any violence

any alcohol can cause violence, I don't know why Scottish police blame buckfast??

if buckfast was banned, then the kids/neds/me would move onto mad dog instead which is worse than buckie as it's 20% alcohol content I believe

any excessive alcohol causes violence, blaming the caffeine content is a load of sh!t

by the way, I drink plenty of it, and I don't cause violence, it's the people itself that cannot control themselves while drunk

my mate drunk 2 bottles of this in Mallorca. he ended up trying to take on everyone and anyone. The abuse from his mouth was shocking even at us. That was five years ago I dont think he drunk since.

sky 971 now

what about violence fuelled by alcohol in England and Wales?

there's no Buckfast there, so who do they blame?

bottle of bo in 4 seconds !
couldnt handle that

Anyone rememeber thunderbids can you still get it? Believe there was a choice of blue or red but both tasted foul and got you hammered. Pretty sure that was some kind of tonic wine but could be mistaken.

thunderbird was american.
havent seen it in years.

Sure on Robbie Williams latest song he mentions it so he must of got drank the stuff aswell lol.

when working up jockland a lot of the locals i palled up with supped a bottle before they went on a night out, apparently about 70 % sales of buckfast are sold around glasgow or coatbridge to be more precise

With buckfast it's the caffeine that drives them loopy

I remember thunderbird well, and we used to get the draught ozzie white from Yates in bottles too, but your poor head the next morning. Ooooh.

ive seen some classy pubs up here selling it by the glass, for the more sophisticated ned.

yea they sell it by the glass in pubs in Airdrie that I know of

funny it's popular in Airdrie/Coatbridge and not Glasgow itself?

Cumbernauld is not mentioned here, it should be, it forms the last part of the Buckfast triangle

it's drunk all over the west of scotland, especially in the airdrie/coatbridge/cumbernauld buckie triangle, but also very popular in glasgow. loads of my mates drink it in a sort of semi-ironic way, but it is **1n howfing and does make you completely mental...

programme tonight was pretty good - actually using evidence/studies than anecdotes to make the case to at least reduce the caffeine content...