Goon!!!

[FOC21]

Yes im bored cbf studying for law...it open book anywayz i should be right...maybe.....anywho my question is...wat do u pplz think of goon...yes thats right that cheap potent liquid that can get a fully grown man smashed to bits...personally...i hate the taste but its cheap and it does get u pretty dam hammered....im partial to it only coz its cheap....

[Seeker]

WTF is Goon?

Everclear or something?

[BlueBoy]

Moved to Food forum.

[Canalien]

Goon = Cask Wine

[dwarfthrower]

With the glut of grapes that the country is currently experiencing, a lot of the wineries are dumping their vintage into whatever form they can sell. So we're finding that a lot of locally produced cask wine is as good as, or better than, some fo the bottled wine that was around five years ago. That said, it still tends to have salt added to it as a preservative which affects the taste and tends to be fairly young wine to boot so if you're a serious wine drinker you would easily pick the difference between $10 per cask wine and a $20 per bottle equivalent. But casks are great for parties and barbecues where you know people are going to be too pissed to really care about what they're drinking and the whole thing will be gone by morning, it certainly doesn't keep as well as bottled wine. I find it handy to keep a small cask of chardonay and one of cab-merlot in the cupboard for those times when a recipe calls for a half-cup of red or white whine and I can't be bothered cracking a bottle.

[Cassa]

I find the banrock station variety of cask wine is actually fairly decent. Yeah I know that bottled it's not gourmet or anything but it does the job.

[dwarfthrower]

Banrock station is a perfect example of a manufacturer putting perfectly good wine into casks instead of bottles. It's exactly the same product that would have been in bottles a few years ago, but thanks to the boom in grape production they just can't sell as many bottles as they would be able to make. It comes out of the same vats.

[RedMaN]

Comes in a box
It will fuck you up
It speaks so softly to you
tell you to have a sup'
It's moselle, chablis, rose, reisling

When you think it's gone
Well you know it's not
Just blow it up
Because you know it's all you've got
It's cheaper than the box it comes in
4 Litres...

Choke on number 1
Retch on number 2
When four comes around you know that it's all good news
Only buy claret if it's the last goon in the shop
4 litres...
sup' the goon
sup' it

+rep to anyone that knows that track without googling ;)

[pliskin]

redman,
not to sure, but im going to guese frenzal rhomb. sounds very much like a lyrics they would write.

man at work we use 15 litre casks of red and wite wine, just for cooking with.

[nrejones]

As a fellow student I am very fond of the stuff. The 4L Lindemans Soft Dry Red is good. I have a couple of glasses with Dinner each night and it lasts for weeks ( also good for making mushroom sauces etc). V good anaesthetic!

[Scumbag]

Yalumba unwooded chardonnay ftw. Banrock station aint bad either.


Im just dissapointed that all the 4 & 5 litre varieties taste like horse piss. I can still drink them though as they are much better value than 2 litre casks.

Heres a cool tip for hot summer days I discovered while I was on the dole:

Place a space bag full of white goon in the freezer for about half an hour or so till it gets really really cold.

Take it out, lay down on the couch, put the cricket on, and place the bag over on your chest.

Once it gets too cold to handle, take a big gulp, then move the bag down over your crotch

Repeat until your whole body is nice and cool and your pissed as a parrott :)

[munganah]

Holy crap, this thread actually got serious there.
Now for me to ass that up:Dj/k.


I remember 'shot gunnin' this shite as a teen, of course back then it was just that....shite. Fruity lexia, mmmmm yummy:)

As previously stated in this thread the quality of cask wine has increased dramatically over the years, which can only be a good thing for society:8:

[RedMaN]

redman,
not to sure, but im going to guese frenzal rhomb. sounds very much like a lyrics they would write.
+rep for you sir.
One of my faves before the band got cunted up :swear:

[hazza]

the yalumba / banrock station are the most popular cask wines which go around. most of the others we sell are utter shit.

coolabah, berri, stanley are fucking disgusting.

if you are going to buy cask wine to get drunk on , consider mixing it with fanta, sunkist, solo or something which will normally take the vinegar / sour taste away that you get with cheap wines.

[Vardsy]

Fruity Lexia, the orginal 2 buck chuck is the only way to go - then you get your mates to stand around a hills hoist - tie the silver bag to it and play "spin the goon"

[nrejones]

Fruity Lexia, the orginal 2 buck chuck is the only way to go - then you get your mates to stand around a hills hoist - tie the silver bag to it and play "spin the goon"

Worst night of my life started that way.

[Canalien]

back in my bottleshop days the Coolabah Chablis was referred to as 'The Lady In The Boat', by those denizens that drank it.

"Hey brudda, give us two ladies in the boat" they'd say.

It was reference to the nostalgic paintings coolabah has on their casks. not sure why Chablis was the most popular, but I'm damn sure it had something to do with little miss nautical.

[Canalien]

also reminds me of a girl I knew at uni named Emily.

Emily 'The Goon Queen'.

she was famous for her ability despite her small stature to polish off a whole 4L cask of wine during her many parties. they became known as Emily's "Silver Sack Saturday Nights" because you could sometimes find her asleep in the wee hours of the morning, resting her head on the inflated empty wine bladder.

[Scumbag]

they make great pool floaties too.

[muppet]

and footballs..

i drink cask when i'm wanting a cheap nite on the grog, otherwise i prefer a bottled sweet white (brown brothers make some awesome wines)

[oggy]

I find the banrock station variety of cask wine is actually fairly decent. Yeah I know that bottled it's not gourmet or anything but it does the job.
Banrock in a cask is really good...Sem Chard is very popular in this house...
apart from the fact my missus works at Hardys and brings home shitloads for free!

[tomsyman]

King_Crud has been hitting the goon a bit lately...

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Goon is great. After you have finished it you have a makeshift pillow to crash out on.

[Snapple]

Some of it is ok, but some is total crap, cant think of the one I sometimes get but it is a real nice merlot. wine in general wipes me out, good stuff it is.

[Snapple]

I just had a flash back of highschool, where 5 of us would chip[ in and buy a cask of the crap skull it, and be plastered all night.

[Salted_Chipmunk]

Goon of fortune is also the greatest of games ever created.

Attach your bladder to a rotatin washing line, have everyone sit down underneath, and spin the line.

If it stops above you skull! Then spin it again.

Its better if you sit down cause after everyone is pissed, when they attempt to get up they fall on their face.

[Frau Farbissina]

Some uni friends had an even more piss-head version of Goon of Fortune.. four different bladders of goon, one on each corner of the washing line. Four people, one in front of each bag of goon. Everyone drinks every round, but you never know which goon you'll get!

[FOC21]

bloody hell now that is pretty damn cool...im gonna have to try that now lol