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How strong are Wetherspoons cocktail pitchers?

55 replies

Funkyslippers · 28/10/2021 16:29

Sorry posting here for traffic. Going out for cocktails and the pitchers have 4 shots of spirit in them. If we drank 1 pitcher each we wouldn't be drunk would we? I try to avoid getting too inebriated! Thanks

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girlmom21 · 28/10/2021 18:32

Why don't you just share a pitcher?

Soupseason · 28/10/2021 18:36

if you're celebrating take her somewhere nice for a decent cocktail.

AllThingsServeTheBeam · 28/10/2021 18:39

@girlmom21

Why don't you just share a pitcher?
May as well just have juice!
Abraxan · 28/10/2021 18:42

4 shots is about 4 units, so same as a couple of big glasses of wine or a couple of pints of beer I'd have thought.

The pitchers are meant to be a few drinks if I remember rightly, so long drinks, diluted and not overly strong.

Maybe have a bigger effect on someone who doesn't normally drink but for the average drinker it's unlikely to make you more than a bit tipsy.

A lot of 'proper' cocktails can have a couple of shots or more in just one glass!

maddy68 · 28/10/2021 18:45

They aren't real cocktails they're pre mixed aodt drink with a couple of shots chucked in

maddy68 · 28/10/2021 18:47

Take her for a nice cocktail somewhere. Not a spoons if it's a special occasion. Get her a porn star

Moooning · 28/10/2021 18:48

@JorisBonson lucky you Grin

I had approximately 8 or 9 'large' ones and a glass or two of wine in the space of a day last week. 20+ shots? I won't do that again in a hurry.

girlmom21 · 28/10/2021 18:49

@AllThingsServeTheBeam I agree - but OP seems worried Grin

Shade17 · 28/10/2021 19:01

They sound terrible! I’d expect at least 4 measures in a single cocktail!

DrinkFeckArseBrick · 28/10/2021 19:02

That's about one unit a glass. Wine can have 3. Even when I've not been drinking I'd struggle to get drunk on that

PolkadotsAndMoonbeams · 28/10/2021 19:05

I'd be very worried about needing the loo!

Theonewiththecandles · 28/10/2021 19:35

4 shots in the equivalent of two pints full of liquid/ice (if they run out of pitcher jugs they sometimes have to serve in two pint glasses)
Most of them are not that strong as they contain spirits like Corky's/Sourz/Morgan's Tiki which are around 15-20%

VividGemini · 28/10/2021 19:38

Can you not get 2 pitchers (to share) and then another 2 depending on how you feel?

guiltynetter · 28/10/2021 19:38

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

I'd be very worried about needing the loo!
I think they have toilets in wetherspoons 😅
VividGemini · 28/10/2021 19:38

@PolkadotsAndMoonbeams

I'd be very worried about needing the loo!
As long as they can navigate the maze like staircases they'll be fine!
suspiria777 · 28/10/2021 19:56

@JorisBonson

She'll get more wired from the sugar in full fat coke. Spoons pitchers are mostly ice and juice!
there's no fat in coke
NigelSlatersXmasTaters · 28/10/2021 20:51

"I think they have toilets in wetherspoons 😅"

They do but you have to go up 3 flights of stairs, down 2, through the crystal maze and then complete a series of krypton factor challenges before you reach them

Againstmachine · 28/10/2021 20:59

Even if it is four 25 measure it depends how much liquid and ice is on there, having had a proper strong cocktail Vs spoons they aren't that strong.

AbsentmindedWoman · 28/10/2021 21:12

How much are these pitchers then - surely they're not charging the same as strong 'real' cocktails?

They sound like something from youthful holidays, feeling nostalgic now.

FangsForTheMemory · 28/10/2021 21:40

Goodness, I used to get bladdered on my youthful holidays.

mumda · 28/10/2021 22:54

4 units is perhaps the same as a pint of beer or cider.

OrangeFluff · 28/10/2021 23:30

I wouldn’t really call Wetherspoons pitchers cocktails. Much better to take her somewhere nice and get some pornstar martinis.

FluffyBooBoo · 28/10/2021 23:38

Does your mum know you're in Spoons??

😂😂

mrsfollowill · 28/10/2021 23:41

Their pitchers are cheap for a reason- I hadn't realised how little alcohol they contain though. Pre lockdown 2 friends and I shared one and I just ended up feeling sick with raging heartburn from too much mango juice. No alcohol effect whatsoever Grin To be fair you can get a double G&T there for £3.99 so I'd leave off their cocktails - go elsewhere for that-most 'proper' cocktails have 2-3 shots in and taste way better!

girlmom21 · 29/10/2021 07:21

@mumda

4 units is perhaps the same as a pint of beer or cider.
A pint of cider is generally 2 units