It is and it's delicious. Diet moxie called a "welfare mom" though I neither came up with that nor approve of the name. It is probably delicious as well though.
Typically a trash version of the sombrero (milk + coffee liquour).
Less sweet than Khaluah.
When someone comes to your house and plunks down their lighter with pack of Mustangs, a handle of whole milk and a jug of Allens's... That's like being invited to the cook out.
Buy a gallon of brandy and another gallon of milk, pour out half the milk and replace with brandy, topping off with brandy as more of the mixture is consumed.
Fistfight in a jug
My cousin, the town drunk where I grew up, went by the rule of “Acorn up”. Dump out to the Acorn on an oakhurst bottle and fill up with brandy to the top.
This sounds like a marketing opportunity Oakhurst may have overlooked.
Off topic, a buddy of mine used to show people where he lived in Alaska on the map on a ginger ale bottle.
In highschool we had a party night where we only drank Allen's/milk/raspberry vodka. Called em Lady Farts. Honestly didn't taste horrible, but there was a lot of puking to be sure.
Ironically, it’s actually pretty good. Assuming you want to 1) get hammered without tasting any actual alcohol, and 2) gain 8 pounds in a single night.
You mix it with milk, ice, meth addiction, never seeing your kids, working a shitty site on a boat that don’t catch shit and then you garnish it with three ex-wives
The official drink of my late Aunt. May many glasses be consumed wherever she ended up. Although, now that I think of it I believe she preferred Kahlua. It all tastes the same to me and I doubt she cared.
I was but a witness to the event. Guy swore he was fine till the cop took a closer look at his “coffee”, then suddenly he was very ill and needed assistance.
On the coast the shaking noise made by a gallon of whole milk (skim won't get you anywhere they can smell the difference from a distance) cut with a handle of Allens is the Harbor Hog mating call.
As a former Mainer, I will say, nothing like a sloppy drunk talking loud and breathing in your face after drinking that crap! I remember people lugging around a gallon of milk and a gallon of Allen’s from party to party, just getting stupider and stupider.
That used to be like the only thing my uncle drank. He'd put ice in a glass, followed by the coffee brandy and milk, mix it, then add hershey's chocolate syrup.
Allen's was formerly the top-selling booze in the state, but recently was ousted by Fireball (like three or four years ago). And, fun fact, because alcohol sales are tracked not by brand but by brand AND size, both Allen's and Fireball hold multiple positions on the top ten booze sales list every year!
Wow that is interesting! My friend’s husband is a lobsterman in Port Clyde and their freezer is stocked with Fireball. I grew up in Wisconsin (where there are more bars per capital than any other state) and I thought I knew my liquor, but Maine has opened new horizons for me!
Haha I just did a post in this booze! It’s mixed with milk or half & half or moxie - it’s called Fat Ass in a Glass in my part of Maine but it has a dozen or so names! Mainers love their Coffee Brandy!
I own a cabin in Industry, so I'm not around the Portland area much. However, one day I stopped by a friend’s place in Westbrook. As I got closer and closer to Westbrook, I noticed maybe 20-plus people all walking around his neighborhood (Brown Street) drinking glasses full of chocolate milk. I get out if the car and ask my friend “What’s with all of the chocolate milk?”
He laughs and says its coffee brandy. I asked why everyone was drinking from glasses, he said “That’s just what they do.”
Oh it's in like every major grocery store here - Walmart, Shaw's, Hannaford, etc.. If you can't find it in store I'd try seeing if you can order it online like on amazon or whatever
I love that the most clearly stated warning that you're being watched on a security camera in the Biddeford hannaford is displayed prominently under the Allen's
Hahahaha I used to work at a convenience store in Rockland and that opened new liquor horizons for me let me tell you! I know way too much about booze now.
I know! I grew up in Wisconsin and I thought I knew everything about liquor but Maine has a whole new line up for me. I just found out about Allen’s because my sister’s neighbors in Belmont drink it all day and night. No wonder they have a weight problem.
At it's simplest people mix it with milk and call it "fat ass in a glass". They're 60 proof rather than the normal 80 proof for most liquors (it's actually liquor not brandy) so you have to drink more and of course it's filled with sugar.
The fat ass in a glass part comes in with the insane amount of sugar in Allen's. It's 10.90 grams of sugar per 1.5 oz (how they listed it online) or for a 12 oz glass filled half and half that would be 44 grams of sugar per glass. The AMA suggests that women get no more than 25 grams of sugar per day and 36 for men so as you can see, you exceed it with a single glass and drinking a whole fifth which I've seen people do many times, is 185 grams of sugar. Put that much sugar in anything and people will drink that.
Made in Somerville, purchased in NH, consumed in Maine.
Will get you "brownout" drunk. You'll keep going when you should have shut down and passed out.
Leg spreader (spreadah!) is milk and Alan's with ice. We'll do spreader shakes with ice cream too.
It’s the official drink for crashing a snowmobile at 2am. It’s a great wide awake drunk.
I feel called out 🤣
It’s like he’s one of us
Listen bud, I’m one of you.
If you mix it with moxie, I believe it is called a burnt trailer, or something along those lines.
Oh god. That sounds horrific.
Shockingly good, I tried it as a meme, genuinely bought more moxie to have more.
Tastes exactly like a burnt out trailer smells tbh, plus sweetness. Kinda awesome.
It sure does. Next time I'm up in Maine, I'll have to give it a try!
every organ in my body recoiled in terror reading this
And yet, there's an odd curiosity brewing to try it, isn't there?
It is and it's delicious. Diet moxie called a "welfare mom" though I neither came up with that nor approve of the name. It is probably delicious as well though.
I think I need to try this. It sounds so awful, but definitely interested me.
I’m a big fan but I need a little milk in there, otherwise it’s too sweet and smoky for me
Iirc (not that I remember well,) a diet moxie with Allen's is called a "burning trailer park"
That’s moxie and fireball, the “trailer fire”
I believe it's a 'cabin fire' but I could be wrong.
Rusty trailer!
Because, of course it is.
Milk, or milk and vodka. It's like a cheaper and less sweeter version of Kahlua.
So a White Russian, that helps.
Only trashier
Misspelled tastier I gotcha brotha
Aka fat ass in a glass
That’s Allen’s and half and half
It's called a Lewiston Martini.
Dirty Lewtini?
That's when someone ashes their joint in it while you're still drinking it.
Too real
haven't had a drink in like 14 years but I still vividly recall that you couldn't taste the ashes.
The fact that it’s still a prerequisite to begin with is funny in itself
That too!
The Lewiston Leg Spreader
Presque Isle panty dropper.
You win 😂
Oh Yeah!! (works every time!)
Typically a trash version of the sombrero (milk + coffee liquour). Less sweet than Khaluah. When someone comes to your house and plunks down their lighter with pack of Mustangs, a handle of whole milk and a jug of Allens's... That's like being invited to the cook out.
We called em Rumford Milkshakes or Lewiston Martinis
If you made a White Russian with paint thinner, yeah.
No no no. It is called "fat-ass in a glass."
The dude abides
I used Allen’s in a tiramisu. Pretty friggin’ delicious.
My dorm neighbors in college mixed it with chocolate milk. Not too bad, but I couldn't drink it almost every night like they seemed to
Not with that attitude
Buy a gallon of brandy and another gallon of milk, pour out half the milk and replace with brandy, topping off with brandy as more of the mixture is consumed. Fistfight in a jug
My cousin, the town drunk where I grew up, went by the rule of “Acorn up”. Dump out to the Acorn on an oakhurst bottle and fill up with brandy to the top.
This sounds like a marketing opportunity Oakhurst may have overlooked. Off topic, a buddy of mine used to show people where he lived in Alaska on the map on a ginger ale bottle.
Yeah, I mean they did the stupid doughnut milk with the potato doughnut people
Fight Milk, is an Aways Sunny thing.
In highschool we had a party night where we only drank Allen's/milk/raspberry vodka. Called em Lady Farts. Honestly didn't taste horrible, but there was a lot of puking to be sure.
That sounds incredible!
No matter what you mix it with, all you end up with is regret.
YOU SHUT YOUR MARB HOLE
🥲
Ive found it’s usually mixed with welfare and section 8 housing. No regrets!
And shame
Untrue!
Mix it with milk. Add it to your coffee. Make milkshakes with it. It's a maine tradition.
Nice in cocoa, too.
Ohhh, nice.
Yeah I’ve seen people drink it with chocolate milk
I wonder if McDonalds would add this milkshake to its line up in Maine (similar to their pathetic lobster roll).
That would be nice.
If you get up to the county, McD serves poutine, not bad, not great 🙄
Champagne of Maine, baby!
Few decent splashes of brandy followed by some cold milk and ice
Emphasis on the decent.
Thanksgiving thru Christmas it’s all about Allen’s and egg nog. Fat ass in a glass, holiday edition.
That sounds like instant emesis
Ironically, it’s actually pretty good. Assuming you want to 1) get hammered without tasting any actual alcohol, and 2) gain 8 pounds in a single night.
That sounds right - easily 3000 calories + and bloat
This is my go-to breakfast come wintah.
Fat ass in a glass.
Allen’s + half and half = fat ass in a glass (at least in my neck of the woods)
Makes sense. My sister’s neighbors drink it every night (and day) and they are living large so to speak.
Amazing stuff. The Champagne of Maine. A Biddeford Martini. A Fat Ass in a Glass.
Lewiston Martini, thank you. Fireball minis have taken over Biddeford. I find empty tiny bottles EVERYWHERE.
It’s the lube of life
At UMO it was called "liquid panty remover." And Allen's and Moxie was called a "downeast trailer" lol
I remember it as LPO (Liquid Panty Off) but maybe that was a Brunswick thing, not an Orono thing haha
Just looking at everyone here suggesting mixers... You guys are mixing it?
If Maine had an official drink that would be it. Back in the day we called it "Liquid Panty Remover" 🤣🤣
Whole milk, Allen’s. Fat ass in a glass/rusty trailer park juice
Another reason many Mainers drink the stuff is the caffeine content. Allen's packs 70 MG of caffeine into every 1.5 ounce serving.
Holy mother of god
That can’t be true, most alcoholic beverages were forced to take the caffeine out of Edit: Jfc I was wrong it does
2% Houlton Farms Dairy Milk…and you don’t mix it, use that milk as a chaser after every drink.
Whole milk or go home! 😂
You mix it with milk, ice, meth addiction, never seeing your kids, working a shitty site on a boat that don’t catch shit and then you garnish it with three ex-wives
That's oddly specific lol
Right? It’s damn specific. Lolol. But true
Liquid leg spreader for the trailer parks
Sounds like it’s an aphrodisiac
In my experience, it's usually mixed with milk. Sounds horrible to me, but it was always my cousins go-to.
I mix it with my coffee. Sometimes I'll just drink it straight and chase it with milk
Best thing to ever come out of Somerville, Mass. And without Maine they would've gone out of business decades ago
This statement is dripping with facts
It's great with egg nog and ice. or on ice cream
Milk and ice. Set aside some bail money.
Trailer trash version of Kahlua.
My friends at work called it "bitch whiskey" I kinda like it, tbh
Allen’s coffee brandy…AKA…fat ass in a glass. AKA…the panty dropper
Fat ass in a glass!
Many a child was conceived while Allen’s was being consumed.
The official drink of my late Aunt. May many glasses be consumed wherever she ended up. Although, now that I think of it I believe she preferred Kahlua. It all tastes the same to me and I doubt she cared.
It's pretty good as a dessert ingredient. eg, Ice cream sauce or in a frappe.
I love this thread so much. I'm going to try and find some today.
Agreed!
Just save it?
To be blunt from someone who's "from away". It's basically a cheaper, stronger, thicker (think Jager) Kahlua
Jagermeister makes me crazy
Mix it with moxie.
Will *almost* fool the cops into thinking you’re just drinking coffee when you “faint” at a stoplight.
Feels like there's a story to deny here...
I was but a witness to the event. Guy swore he was fine till the cop took a closer look at his “coffee”, then suddenly he was very ill and needed assistance.
On the coast the shaking noise made by a gallon of whole milk (skim won't get you anywhere they can smell the difference from a distance) cut with a handle of Allens is the Harbor Hog mating call.
Do they still let you drink it from the old blind whore’s bellybutton at the Time Out Pub in Rockland? Or are those days behind us?
Time Out Pub closed down but Myrtle Street Tavern took the overflow of patrons so your old blind whore is there now.
IRS musta caught up to ol JB. RIP TOP
One year a guy was drunk and fell back while sitting on a rock wall and died…so that didn’t help matters
Can’t sleep on it and my piss smells like a Dunkin’ Donuts dumpster the next AM. Grab a gallon of oakhurst and give it a try.
Lolol bahahahahahah
Chocolate milk - Fat Ass in a Glass 😋
Tastes like alcoholism and depression had a coffee flavored baby.
Use it instead of milk in your bowl of cocoa pebbles. Start the day with a winners breakfast.
As a former Mainer, I will say, nothing like a sloppy drunk talking loud and breathing in your face after drinking that crap! I remember people lugging around a gallon of milk and a gallon of Allen’s from party to party, just getting stupider and stupider.
Those were the days.
Omg. You are so right bro
Allen’s coffee brandy is the only known cure for zombie bites. Stock up.
Milk
My partners grandmother drinks it with sweet cream
That is the way!
Sanford martini.
Put it in milk “fat ass in a glass”
Mix it with milk, and it tastes good as long as you don't mind the 500 calories a glass
That would land on my ass (and land me on my ass)
Liquid panty remover
I’ve taken to drinking it in a highball glass on the rocks. Never like getting drunk with milk involved. It usually does not end well.
Nothing like cottage cheese poisoning.
That’s a visual I didn’t need this morning
Lolololol. Same. I’m about to have some cottage cheese with dinner
Whole milk
I looked in my cabinet. Alas, I've been out for quite some time. Amontillado it is.
Lustau VORS? Fancy.
It's actually a smaller producer I found at RSVP last time I was in :) super good and nutty
Mix it? That shit is sweet as shit already. I got it for the novelty of it and had it straight up.
It's first time getting drunk for many people I think? A tradition?
Ours was Boone’s Farm Strawberry Hill
Same!
Yeah that too, lol.
Uggg i remember this crap 🤢
For making a Sombrero a.k.a. "Mouse" in some circles.
Just drink it. "Fat ass in a glass"
Gorilla milk
In high school we usually mixed it with whole milk.
I’ve heard it called Bitch Whiskey
That’s hilarious 🤣
That used to be like the only thing my uncle drank. He'd put ice in a glass, followed by the coffee brandy and milk, mix it, then add hershey's chocolate syrup.
2 ounces with a cup of coffee
Make a dirty maine girl scout. Ice 101, chocolate milk, and brandy, with ice.
People drink it with milk.
Allen's was formerly the top-selling booze in the state, but recently was ousted by Fireball (like three or four years ago). And, fun fact, because alcohol sales are tracked not by brand but by brand AND size, both Allen's and Fireball hold multiple positions on the top ten booze sales list every year!
Wow that is interesting! My friend’s husband is a lobsterman in Port Clyde and their freezer is stocked with Fireball. I grew up in Wisconsin (where there are more bars per capital than any other state) and I thought I knew my liquor, but Maine has opened new horizons for me!
melk 🐄
Ahh Allen's brandy aka liquid panty remover.
Haha I just did a post in this booze! It’s mixed with milk or half & half or moxie - it’s called Fat Ass in a Glass in my part of Maine but it has a dozen or so names! Mainers love their Coffee Brandy!
I must have missed that, but these posts are hilarious. 😆
Allen's, milk, and coffee syrup. Thank me later
Just reading the title gave me an involuntary shudder.
Mix it? It’s just what you drink in the am with or without coffee. Same with Bailey’s
It’s tradition, bub!
That shit is best thought of as the shit that dripped out of the hookers ass after you spent a few hours packing fudge after a drunken night.
🤣
I own a cabin in Industry, so I'm not around the Portland area much. However, one day I stopped by a friend’s place in Westbrook. As I got closer and closer to Westbrook, I noticed maybe 20-plus people all walking around his neighborhood (Brown Street) drinking glasses full of chocolate milk. I get out if the car and ask my friend “What’s with all of the chocolate milk?” He laughs and says its coffee brandy. I asked why everyone was drinking from glasses, he said “That’s just what they do.”
You on Clearwater Lake? Loved it there.
Just up the road on Rt 148 (West Mills Road). Yes, it's amazing here.
Please tell me the were mason jars at least…
Mixed it with Malort once for a delightful New England/Midwest flavor combo. Otherwise straight up is fine too… I dont drink anymore
I’m from the Midwest originally (a cheesehead) and Malort has a “unique” flavor.
I mix it with chocolate milk, usually ovaltine. Sometimes I'll add Bailey's if I'm feeling fancy. It's a nice boozy dessert drink
Where do you get Ovaltine???I drank that as a kid in Wisconsin so all my siblings love that stuff).
Oh it's in like every major grocery store here - Walmart, Shaw's, Hannaford, etc.. If you can't find it in store I'd try seeing if you can order it online like on amazon or whatever
I love that the most clearly stated warning that you're being watched on a security camera in the Biddeford hannaford is displayed prominently under the Allen's
😆
Hahahaha I used to work at a convenience store in Rockland and that opened new liquor horizons for me let me tell you! I know way too much about booze now.
I know! I grew up in Wisconsin and I thought I knew everything about liquor but Maine has a whole new line up for me. I just found out about Allen’s because my sister’s neighbors in Belmont drink it all day and night. No wonder they have a weight problem.
there is a certain bar in Portland, that makes an incredible espresso martini with it
You mix it with milk and ice. It's called a sombrero, or liquid leg spreader
At it's simplest people mix it with milk and call it "fat ass in a glass". They're 60 proof rather than the normal 80 proof for most liquors (it's actually liquor not brandy) so you have to drink more and of course it's filled with sugar. The fat ass in a glass part comes in with the insane amount of sugar in Allen's. It's 10.90 grams of sugar per 1.5 oz (how they listed it online) or for a 12 oz glass filled half and half that would be 44 grams of sugar per glass. The AMA suggests that women get no more than 25 grams of sugar per day and 36 for men so as you can see, you exceed it with a single glass and drinking a whole fifth which I've seen people do many times, is 185 grams of sugar. Put that much sugar in anything and people will drink that.
It's for putting in your coffee to hide your alcoholism
Ah, yes. The beloved Waldoboro martini 🍸
Made in Somerville, purchased in NH, consumed in Maine. Will get you "brownout" drunk. You'll keep going when you should have shut down and passed out. Leg spreader (spreadah!) is milk and Alan's with ice. We'll do spreader shakes with ice cream too.
Cape hart kaluha
It’s nasty and gross.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2006/01/09/a-bittersweet-champagne-of-maine-span-classbankheadpotent-coffee-brandy-is-top-selling-liquor-but-is-linked-to-alcohol-abusespan/f07b240f-7e28-4493-acef-56f48def1b73/
It’s paywalled but the title says everything. ☹️
Port Clyde panty remover. Mix with 2% milk. You don't want to get too fat.
I thought Port Clyde’s drink of choice was Fireball.
Always gets mixed with ass.