5 Drinks That Changed Our Brain Chemistry
Some drinks in the world have the power to fundamentally alter a person. Others change so many people that they change the culture. Everyone has a story or hazy memory of downing very specific drinks shortly before making questionable decisions on a crowded dance floor. These drinks taste like the nights we’ll never remember. They funked us up so much that they shifted how we see the world and ourselves.
We’re diving headfirst into the wild world of drinks that straight-up mess with your head. Every drink on this list is like a one-way ticket to the twilight zone of brain chemistry.
So grab your glass and brace yourself for the drinks that have fundamentally altered us all.
Goldschlager
Although no one remembers the rest of the night after a Goldschlager, the life-changing effects can not be diminished. We were all told that the tiny flakes of gold in the liqueur were meant to cut the inside of your throat so that the alcohol could make it into your bloodstream and get you drunk faster. Even if that’s not technically true, the placebo effect alone knocked many of us on our collective asses, and we’ve never been the same since.
Jager Bombs
They came; they saw and conquered Dublin and the world at large. From increasing “high-risk” sexual activity to inflating male egos and head injuries, these bad boys turbocharge the worst human behaviours, and they legitimately do fugg with your brain chemistry and make you rely on them. Lord knows we did in 2016.
Elaborate G&Ts
Jaysus, there was a time when you couldn’t spit without hitting a goldfish gin bowl in Dublin. They dominated like only a drink nicknamed ‘Mother’s Ruin’ could. We all lapped it up, which legitimately changed how we drink as a culture. Whether they were decked out with cucumber or with grapefruit, we all went through this phase and know ourselves a lot better for it.
Belfast Coffee
This is the cocktail that launched a thousand ships. 1661, they not only changed the game but made it their own since they opened in 2019. Anyone who has had any and every one of their cocktails remembers is, but their signature drink blows the mind and leaves bits of your brain on the wall behind it
Naggins
These change everyone’s brain chemistry as a right of passage. It could be a naggin of anything, but more often than not, it was a naggin of vodka that you tried to force into you in whatever way you could. No matter what you cut it with, the results are the same. No one is the same person they were before they first naggin-ed
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