It’s known as ‘Buckie’, ‘Brown Sauce’, ‘Commotion Lotion’, ‘Wreck-the-hoose Juice’, and ‘Bottle of Fight the World’. Buckfast is a fortified wine that is the favoured tipple of Neds (Scottish council estate kids) because it’s cheap, strong and tastes like sweeties.
But Scotland’s health minister wants to ban Buckie because, he says, it encourages underage binge drinking and violence (glass Buckie bottles are said to be responsible for 80 per cent of the head injuries at Scottish A&E wards every weekend)…
The drink is also singled out in a new government film as being the fuel for ASBOs.
But the Benedictine Order who’ve been brewing Buckie for over 100 years are like, "What? File that under ‘Not Our Fault." These moonshine-peddling monks think that they’re being made scapegoats for Scottish alcoholism.
We’ll keep you informed as the battle over Buckie continues.
DOM TUNON











Reader Comments
October 31st, 2006
3:33 pm
Scots are cavemen.
October 31st, 2006
3:37 pm
my ma drinks this when she’s feeling poorly.
eek.
October 31st, 2006
3:58 pm
i love this sorta shit
October 31st, 2006
4:13 pm
What is this, 1997?
October 31st, 2006
4:35 pm
Jesus, half those “nicknames” for Buckfast are put up on Wikipedia by drunk students. No ned would ever refer to Buckie as “wreck-the-hoose-juice” or “commotion lotion”. It’s Buckie, or Tonic.
Coupled with the “Begginer’s Guide To Gangland UK” it’s become clear most Vice UK staffers have probably never left their parent’s houses. Have you ever thought about perhaps doing some “research”, which involves getting “evidence” and “facts” tather than just posting up a 200 word summary of a Wikipedia article?
October 31st, 2006
4:50 pm
i trust wiki with my life. so swivel.
October 31st, 2006
5:28 pm
that shit is vile.
October 31st, 2006
5:29 pm
I Northern Ireland, during the troubles, the area encompassing Portadown, Lurgan and Craigavon was known as the murder triangle. It was also sometimes refered to as the Buckfast triangle. I heard a rumour that during the eighties the monks of Buckfast Abbey donated a quantity of their fighting juice to the people of Lurgan in recognition of their devotion to the elixir.
The nicknames are real. In Portadown Buckfast also goes by the names: “beat the wife”, “Grubber”, “divil’s blood”, “the wine”, and bizarrely, “Dick Van Dyke”.
October 31st, 2006
5:35 pm
It used to be sold in chemists as a tonic for constipation. The active ingredient is caffeine whic when combined with the alcohol brings about a very “up” that some users have described as like being in in your own private bubble of mischievious, energised, anti-social glee.
November 1st, 2006
12:32 am
those nicknames are true, cos thats what me and my mates called it when we were small, it has those nicknames because they describe what it makes you do. ive seen people bottled with buckfast bottles. any fights ive been in, back in ireland were most probably against people fucked up on buckfast. ive never drank the stuff, same way ive never done crystal meth.
November 1st, 2006
1:06 am
You can’t beat a bottle of liquid speed i tell thee. Many hours of talking bollocks in north east wales has been done with a bit of buckie in us.
November 1st, 2006
10:51 am
Pure dead gallas man!, any of ye tried Buckie in yer cornflakes when the milks finished!!
Jeezo man!
Sets ye up for the day!!
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:07 am
my ex flatmate used to keep a bottle of this in the fridge. he was a conneseur. it didn’t make it taste remotely drinkable though
November 1st, 2006
11:42 am
Fuck you Glaswegian Ted you stupid Scot.
November 1st, 2006
11:43 am
Hey Jack - in Northern Ireland during the troubles? You gotta be a little more specific on the time period because the troubles started at the beginning of time and have never really stopped.
November 1st, 2006
11:46 am
Hey JR - “many hours of talking bollocks in north east wales has been done with a bit of buckie in us”… When do people in North East Wales (or all of Wales for that matter) not speak bollocks. Stupid pikeys.
November 1st, 2006
2:08 pm
why doesn’t this shit exsist in america? is there a comparable product? nothing has made me quite as angry that i live in america as seeing that great products like this do not exsist in this country.
November 1st, 2006
2:56 pm
it does exist in america…its called mad dog 2020
November 1st, 2006
3:54 pm
Big whoop yanks got MD20/20, Ripple, Boon’s farm, Wild Irish rose, Thunderbird, Night train.
I do wish we had Scrumpy though.
November 1st, 2006
3:55 pm
Big whoop tee doo, the US has Night train, Thunderbird, Wild Irish rose, Boon’s farm, Ripple, Cisco etc.
Wish we had Scrumpy though.
November 1st, 2006
4:56 pm
Bless tha buckie.
November 2nd, 2006
7:29 am
My Uncle Jim told me another good name for Buckfast: a bottle of “Who the fuck are you looking at?”. Get fucked fast with Buckfast.
November 2nd, 2006
8:32 am
re: scrumpy - just make it! you have apples over there don’t you? Apples, straw, a coupla dead rodents,a coupla gallons of virgin’s piss is all it takes - ENJOY!
November 2nd, 2006
8:34 am
p.s. scots are wankers.
November 2nd, 2006
11:12 pm
Yer ma’s a wanker
November 2nd, 2006
11:13 pm
p.s I’ll knock yer ballix in
November 3rd, 2006
8:23 am
what with? Yer sporran?
Stupid fucking porridge-wog.
November 3rd, 2006
3:22 pm
They’ll never ban it. Freedom.
Buckie + Vodka = a cocktail called Tough Love. Try it, itll make you cry.
November 5th, 2006
12:34 am
That bozzy mckoo is funny as he never got over fucking his ma by accident, and he wasnt even on bucky!!
November 6th, 2006
3:56 am
I lived in Lurgan, co armaugh, N Ireland for 12 months, and drunk lots of buckfast, i only ever heard it called “fuck fast” or creat8ivly “bottle-o-wine” 1 bottle gets you absolutly soozled and for 3 pound 50 you cant go wrong.. damn
November 16th, 2006
5:35 pm
the best way to enjoy this fine beverage is to mix it with champagne (well… cheap cava). it’s called a velvet elvis and it’ll knock yr head off.
and yes i’m scottish.
February 2nd, 2009
1:26 pm
Народ в таких случаях так говорит - Бабушка еще на двое сказала: либо дождь, либо снег, либо будет, либо нет.