Drug info - Goldstrike

[Alfa]

FUBAR has never consumed this infamous drink, but many people that FUBAR knows swear that this is different than normal liquor.

This cinnamon schnapps contains 50% alcohol and gold flakes. Does anyone know if the effects of goldstrike are just due to the 50% alcohol or that they are due to the gold flakes or something else.

FUBAR has heard from several people that blackouts are memory loss are frequent on gold strike.

Here is the description:

Bols Gold, also called Gold Wasser de Danzig, is a liqueur dating back to the time of Louis XIV. It is made from a variety of imported woodland herbs, seeds and roots. The main ingredient, however, is the Curaçao peel, which binds all the components together. The flocculent pieces of genuine 24K gold leaf floating in the liqueur are part of its ancient tradition and are harmless when consumed. Bols Gold is sometimes called bride's tears, which are symbolised by the small gold leaves.

[Panthers007]

If I was drinking a liquor containing actual gold, and then got the tab from the bar-keep, I'd probably have a blackout too. But gold metal is, for all intents & purposes in vivo, inert and would be excreted unchanged. Mining in the Men's Room anyone?

[Mint boi]

My ferret has never tried goldstrike, but has been known to enjoy goldschlager once in a while, they seem to be basically the same thing.

He has heard from a few people that the gold flakes lacerate the drinkers throat on the way down and cause more alcohol to be absorbed... as far as he's concerned thats just an urban legend... gold being so soft and there being less than 100mg worth of solids in an entire bottle. He thinks this rumor arose because of the burning combination of alcohol and cinnamon! its a nice drink but I think the rumors about it being something more than that are in the same league are the ones about jagermeister containing deers blood, or an opiate!

[MiMoMo]

Goldschlager was SWIM's mainstay while in the stripclub scene. In fact, the sister club to the one managed by SWIM served alcohol. Despite being in a rather small grimy town, this stripclub's consumption of Goldschlager earned it a special award from the Goldschlager company! The owner of the 2 clubs was wise to only let SWIM manage the nonalcohol club and never the alcohol serving one.

As the case with most sweet liquors experienced by SWIM, high alcohol concentration combined with sugars and spices result in an intoxication that I fondly called 'hypnotic'. Exceptionally long blackout periods of irrational activity usually ended up by SWIM on all fours, barking and chasing people with a dog's eye view of situations (great for upskirts!). Commonly, SWIM would enter a sort of trance state whereby he would insist on covering the bar's tab for the entire evening for everyone. Because of this, customers would generally refrain from kicking SWIM while he was sniffing their legs.

In fact, the Goldschlager marketing slogan is 'Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid', as testimony to the dire consequences of overimbibing on their crazy elixir. SWIM enjoyed the Benedictine, a far more refined liquor, still sweet as all get out. Also the coffee Tia Maria would keep SWIM awake.

SWIMS's wildest experience with Goldschlager was when it finally dawned on SWIM that his girlfriend was being unfaithful and was seeing another woman. This other woman was decidedly bull in nature, bearing a striking resemblance to Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, Keith being way better looking! SWIM's perceived loss to someone presumed to be a woman, replete with leather, chains and scars did not compute at all. SWIM ordered a dozen shots of Goldschlager to be assembled at the bar in front of him. SWIM proceeded to delve into the nether world for solace...

The next thing SWIM remembers is waking up in car to midmorning with people milling around, seemingly inspecting SWIM's vehicle. Finally perceived was that SWIM had driven on automatic pilot, somehow realized that it was impossible to reach home destination before body shutdown and had found a used car lot to park in. Imagine the surprise on potential car buyers' faces when SWIM turned the key and drove off the lot with a car they had been eyeing! SWIM restricts himself to KIJAFA, a Danish real cherry wine, now and NEVER drives drunk anymore.