Friday Night Booze Bloggging

 

1. as a marine, i’ve drinked rum all over the world. will stay with cuba’libra’s thank you
   the lime or lemon stops scurvy and you can put captain morgans on pancakes!

   Posted by Rancino       05/16/2008  at  09:08 PM  



2. Chocolate martini?
   Being from Kentucky, I’m more read up on bourbon rather than gin, but chocolate martini sounds like a joke. A bad one, at that.

   Posted by Severa       05/17/2008  at  08:49 AM  



3. froofy girly drink?
   Bill

   Posted by Doctor DETH       05/17/2008  at  02:47 PM  



4. I make what I call a martini with a splash of vermouth, a splash of the olive juice from the bottle and a jigger of gin.  (I keep the vermouth and olives in the refrigerator and the gin in the freezer.) I prefer several olives.

   I’ll look up and try the Noilly Pratt vermouth.  What the heck, I can still learn.

   However, Brother Drew, could you be a little more exact about the amounts of gin and vermouth at play here?  How many parts of one to the other, perhaps?  Or how much vermouth per jigger of gin?

   The Chocolate martini sounds like a sad mis-use of gin and a terrible waste of chocolate.  I am just not a ‘sweet drink’ kind of guy.

   Posted by Archie       05/18/2008  at  10:33 AM  



5. Drew, you should have asked me. You should always ask a Brit if you want to know about gin. The best brand is Gordon’s.

   Here’s how you mix a really dry martini:

   Churchill drank the driest martini possible. He always paused to look toward France as he passed (never poured) the vermouth bottle over his gin. A traditional martini was never made with vodka.

   Also, you chill it in the fridge, or for a few hours in the freezer (being 40% w/v alcohol, it should not freeze), not pour it over ice.

   Rancino, have you drunk spiced rum? Takes it into another league.

   Posted by DWMF       05/19/2008  at  06:07 AM  



6. Gordon’s? Ok, there’s another brand I’ll just have to try. Such a chore.

   Posted by Drew458       05/19/2008  at  06:42 AM  

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