Colin
05-09-2008, 09:02 AM
Alcoholic or connoisseur?
Well, I do have about 100 bottles of liquor in my home bar so the question was certain to arise. The fact that I can mix a cocktail from memory that involves nearly a dozen ingredients (some including seemingly bizarre ingredients such as falernum) does speak in favor of the latter, though my propensity to include 151 Demerara rum on the top of myriad concoctions doesn't do much to dissuade the former.
At certain points in my life, I have favored tequila, gin or vodka, but I have no come to see rum as the ultimate spirit. And about a third of my current collection is made up of my newfound love — light, medium, dark, overproof, flavored. I discriminate not when it comes to the many lovely forms of this beverage. And I hope this board that I stumbled across continues my tiki education. I love the rums that Cruzan makes in particular — so cheap and high-quality for a good mixed drink. Lemon Hart and Appleton are my other favorites.
I live in Seattle and my name is Colin as the user name intimates. I'm 31 and a copy editor/page designer at a daily newspaper. I fix grammar, write headlines, lay out pages, etc. Don't hold any drunken typos against me as I'm off the clock (and onto my second Hemingway Daiquiri). In the past, such occupation was rewarded with complicity in the unspoken truth that a flask was ever-present in the depths of one's desk. Nowadays, keeping 80 proof liquors in one's drawers is frowned upon, but I always smile when I come home to a Zombie or a mai tai or a bahia.
Remember, I'm a connoisseur, not a drunk. :)
Well, I do have about 100 bottles of liquor in my home bar so the question was certain to arise. The fact that I can mix a cocktail from memory that involves nearly a dozen ingredients (some including seemingly bizarre ingredients such as falernum) does speak in favor of the latter, though my propensity to include 151 Demerara rum on the top of myriad concoctions doesn't do much to dissuade the former.
At certain points in my life, I have favored tequila, gin or vodka, but I have no come to see rum as the ultimate spirit. And about a third of my current collection is made up of my newfound love — light, medium, dark, overproof, flavored. I discriminate not when it comes to the many lovely forms of this beverage. And I hope this board that I stumbled across continues my tiki education. I love the rums that Cruzan makes in particular — so cheap and high-quality for a good mixed drink. Lemon Hart and Appleton are my other favorites.
I live in Seattle and my name is Colin as the user name intimates. I'm 31 and a copy editor/page designer at a daily newspaper. I fix grammar, write headlines, lay out pages, etc. Don't hold any drunken typos against me as I'm off the clock (and onto my second Hemingway Daiquiri). In the past, such occupation was rewarded with complicity in the unspoken truth that a flask was ever-present in the depths of one's desk. Nowadays, keeping 80 proof liquors in one's drawers is frowned upon, but I always smile when I come home to a Zombie or a mai tai or a bahia.
Remember, I'm a connoisseur, not a drunk. :)