So what do you all drink these days?
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Yeah the dark rums are the best. Lambs probably my fave, Though i am partial to the cheap (£11 a bottle) stuff from Lidl. It's very palatable. I'd say better than most supermarkets own brand stuff, which i also quite like. Dont tend to go for more expensive stuff as it doesn't last long enough.
Rachael, every month when she gets paid likes to go online and buy a random bottle of some flavoured stuff normally spending £30 to £50 a bottle, some are nice, most are too sweet for me.
Have you ever tried a smoked Rum? Bacardi Oakheart was a winner but they stopped making it a few years ago, and 'Cut to the Smoke' is a good one too.
Same for me but in my case greek Metaxa.The one brandy I can't drink (no, can't even smell) is Asbach (German brandy) on account of getting extremely ill on it whilst on exercise in Germany
I've been trying to remember, for the past couple of days, the name of an excessively strong Austrian rum that I tried as a teenager.The one brandy I can't drink (no, can't even smell) is Asbach (German brandy) on account of getting extremely ill on it whilst on exercise in Germany
It finally came to me: Ströh Inländer rum, 80%.
At the time of the OP I was on instant coffee with milk. Nothing fancy. Occasionally I drink single malt or a nice sipping rum drunk neat.
BTW when touring (on bikes) in a distillery area (was on Islay a few years ago) it is tradition for us to get a small bottle of the local stuff. We then drink it with a smidgeon of the local water. The idea is that water is different around the country so to truly get the real experience you should drink neat or mix with water from where the single malt comes from.
I think the idea with water is that by slight dilution you will be more likely to detect the more subtle components of the flavour.
BTW I got into good rum at about 19 or 20 yo or possibly younger when my parents got a 2 week 4 star holdiday in Jamaica for the price of a main airline return flight once. They came back with a local single estate Rum that was dirt cheap out there in all supermarkets but over here was rare as and often only at independent off licences that specialised in rum. However the Greek islands the same rum was in supermarkets at a cheap price too!! So I got another one off them from another holiday years after the first.
Back then even Booths hardly stocked any rum but now the UK is more open to rum which I think is down to the rise of designer gins and boutique distilleries for gin. Plus flavoured rums which I would not go for personally. Now these nice rums to be drunk neat are now appearing more and more in places round here. Once I used to buy cheap single malts at Booths when they are on offer before xmas. Now I do that with sipping rum.
BTW to anyone who does not rate rum should learn a bit about it. Good rum is single estate and has a character and flavour that is as much about the place it was made in (the soil the cane was grown in down to the still used and the barrels aged in). IMHO Rum should be treated like single malt in that it should be appreciated highly when it is good and respected as a drink.
Currently I have a Venezuelan rum and a Barbadan rum on the go IIRC. I also have something bought in Scotland but I can not remember what the rum is. A bit too rough for my liking that one. Hard to fully appreciate a bit like heavily peated malts are IMHO. I quite like Cane Rock rum at the moment. It has a pottery turtle embedded in the bottle near the neck.
BTW I do not agree with coke and rum. If you have a good rum adding a coke to it is wrong. If you have a cheap and nasty rum then pour it away and get a good one. Some places recommend ginger with rum (I think they mean ginger wine or tonic, is it Stones?). I think some recommend that with certain single malts too. Not so sure myself.
BTW when touring (on bikes) in a distillery area (was on Islay a few years ago) it is tradition for us to get a small bottle of the local stuff. We then drink it with a smidgeon of the local water. The idea is that water is different around the country so to truly get the real experience you should drink neat or mix with water from where the single malt comes from.
I think the idea with water is that by slight dilution you will be more likely to detect the more subtle components of the flavour.
BTW I got into good rum at about 19 or 20 yo or possibly younger when my parents got a 2 week 4 star holdiday in Jamaica for the price of a main airline return flight once. They came back with a local single estate Rum that was dirt cheap out there in all supermarkets but over here was rare as and often only at independent off licences that specialised in rum. However the Greek islands the same rum was in supermarkets at a cheap price too!! So I got another one off them from another holiday years after the first.
Back then even Booths hardly stocked any rum but now the UK is more open to rum which I think is down to the rise of designer gins and boutique distilleries for gin. Plus flavoured rums which I would not go for personally. Now these nice rums to be drunk neat are now appearing more and more in places round here. Once I used to buy cheap single malts at Booths when they are on offer before xmas. Now I do that with sipping rum.
BTW to anyone who does not rate rum should learn a bit about it. Good rum is single estate and has a character and flavour that is as much about the place it was made in (the soil the cane was grown in down to the still used and the barrels aged in). IMHO Rum should be treated like single malt in that it should be appreciated highly when it is good and respected as a drink.
Currently I have a Venezuelan rum and a Barbadan rum on the go IIRC. I also have something bought in Scotland but I can not remember what the rum is. A bit too rough for my liking that one. Hard to fully appreciate a bit like heavily peated malts are IMHO. I quite like Cane Rock rum at the moment. It has a pottery turtle embedded in the bottle near the neck.
BTW I do not agree with coke and rum. If you have a good rum adding a coke to it is wrong. If you have a cheap and nasty rum then pour it away and get a good one. Some places recommend ginger with rum (I think they mean ginger wine or tonic, is it Stones?). I think some recommend that with certain single malts too. Not so sure myself.
For me it depends who is buying....
At home - Red Wine or single malt whisky Isay for first choice but only when on offer!
On camp - Beer, Speckled Hen or Hobgoblin, Whisky, Rum or home made/flavoured Vodka and home made/blended Port Substitute. Or whatever is being shared by others
At home - Red Wine or single malt whisky Isay for first choice but only when on offer!
On camp - Beer, Speckled Hen or Hobgoblin, Whisky, Rum or home made/flavoured Vodka and home made/blended Port Substitute. Or whatever is being shared by others
Tea or water now. I was a pirate. lolYeah i know, Random question. It is Friday, and i 'm drinking Rum.. (again)
We should all try it, if one hasn't already.
Anyone ever wish they could have been a pirate?
Seriously though.... What we all drinking these days? (if anything) I know, not everyone likes a tipple... but those who do..Whats your poison? What do you take to the woods when you go... what do you savour at home, when you do?
I used to drink lager, had many a night, toting a crate around... sharing a beer with a few friends.. now? Cant be bothered with the weight. Rum all the way for me... Do i have a favourite? Sure. Is that what i buy the most.. No.
Everyone (who drinks) has their own tipple. What ya drinking, given the correct circumstance?
I mean, seriously.. never met a man/woman camping out somewhere, that wasn't wielding a warmer.
While i don't currently possess a vessel fo r plunder and pillaging... i do have a parrot. Well, i mean i have a cat that believes she's a parrot. She's fully grown, But suffers from dwarfism. But she keeps getting on my case to buy a ship, and go plunder the high seas...
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Well someone’s got to do it. Nothing to be ashamed of.
My local Spar is selling late date Dr.Pepper at half price. I bought a load of that!!!!
