Buckfast?? Or any other tonic wine recipe??

[alawlor66430]

You have to be a fairly flush binge Herbert to get anti social on it down my way. That stuff's getting on for ten quid down my local off licence. The local yoof tend to veer towards cherry lambrini or at a push, hand sanitiser nicked out of the bogs in the library.

mmmmm hand sanitizer yummy lol.

 

[Gayle]

Buckfast is my non-homebrew drink of choice

You wouldn't, perchance, be from Lurgan would you?

Erm.... yes :lol:

 

[DirtyCaner]

The caffeine in Buckfast is a replacement for the Coca alkaloids that were originally present in it, from Coca leaf. Eventually laws changed and they had to find a substitute in the form of caffeine, from yerba mate. You can buy mate tea here, rooibos tea, it's caffeinated herb from south America. This would probably be your best source of the caffeine if your wanting to stay close to the original.

Makes you wonder what Paisley would be like on a Saturday night if they were still making it with the original recipe :shock:

DC

 

[Gayle]

Its high strength (15% ABV/14.8% in the Republic of Ireland), relatively low price and sweetness are characteristics that are thought to appeal to underage drinkers.

At £7.79 for a bottle it's not what I'd call low priced. I am convinced that it must surely be a drug in itself (not in a bad way, for I surely wouldn't want it banned!) for the following reasons:

The company does not advertise, yet they don't seem to have problems getting it off the shelves. It doesn't taste particularly nice, but people drink it anyway. There is a proper "high" from it that does not come with most other alcoholic drinks (which mostly make me sleepy). If you don't have bottle at the weekend, by midweek you'll be wishing you had and craving one. If someone goes into an offy looking for Buckfast, and it is not available there, they will go elsewhere rather than choosing an alternative. There are a few places you can go at any time of day or night to get yourself a bottle at a high price if the offy is closed, and the price doesn't matter because you'll buy it anyway.

 

[D3RF]

the original buckfast recipe used cocaine instead of caffeine :) id say that was ROCKET FUEL haha.

but all jokes aside, i would be very interested in a tried and tested homebrew buckfast recipe, love the stuff :)

 

[Tim_Crowhurst]

You can buy mate tea here, rooibos tea, it's caffeinated herb from south America. This would probably be your best source of the caffeine if your wanting to stay close to the original.

Yerba mate and rooibos are totally different plants

Yerba mate is a holly from south-central South America, and will grow in a range of climates.

Rooibos is a legume (i.e. the same group of plants as beans, gorse, indigo, wisteria and licorice) and only grows in the fynbos, a small and ecologically unique area of the Western Cape province of South Africa.

 

[DirtyCaner]

Aye, right enough, Tim, thanks for clearing that up.

I was looking at another tea that was a blend of the two. Rooibos is caffeine free.

No doubt you'll fine somewhere online that sells yerba mate if you want to go ahead with the experiment. I believe it also contains other xanthine based chemicals, similar to caffeine.

DirtyC