Anyway, recently the Post dedicated several pages of its food section to stocking a bar. So, again, I ask you, does anybody drink anymore? I mean, yes, I enjoy my vodka, and I might even reach for that before the beer. Especially now that summer is here and I can make vodka collins. So, do you have a full bar at home? What's in it? While you go check, fix yourself the semi-official drink of Bermuda.
Dark & Stormy
- ice
- 1 to 2 coin-size slices peeled ginger root (optional)
- 2 ounces dark rum, preferably Gosling's Black Seal (from Bermuda)
- 3 to 4 ounces chilled ginger beer (be sure to use ginger beer and not ginger ale)
- 2 thin lime wedges, for garnish
Fill an old-fashioned glass with ice and the ginger. Add the rum and stir. Top with the ginger beer. Squeeze the lime wedges over the drink and drop them in.
If you leave out the ginger and replace the dark rum with vodka, you'll have made a Moscow Mule.
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I'm not going to drink a dark and stormy, but here's what's in the bar:
2 bottles of Boodles gin, 1 bottle Maker's Mark; 1 bottle Knob Creek; 1 bottle dry sherry; 1 bottle Sauza gold; 1 bottle Cristal rum; 1 jar olives (unopened); 1 bottle dark rum (Martinique); 1 bottle Ketel One; Rose's cosmo mix; Godiva liqueur (I think that should be in the fridge); 1 bottle port I bought on my 30th birthday, so old and probably skanky; 1 bottle dry vermouth; 1 bottle sweet vermouth; 1 bottle chocolate and curacao liqueur; 9 nip bottles of flavored rums from the Caribbean; 1 nip bottle Edradour scotch; 1 bottle Oban; a bottle of Pimm's; highball glasses, wine glasses, champagne flutes, liqueur glasses, pilsner glasses, and martini glasses
I hope someone's still drinking! Or is it just us?
Since we throw a holiday party most years, we've got a fairly well stocked bar. Of the 6 essentials listed in the article, we're only missing the tequila. Since we fix caipirinhas instead of margaritas, no one misses the tequila.
I never really got into drinking heavily. I'll have the occasional glass of wine or a single bottle of beer, but any more than that and I start to feel uncomfortable.
I've always suffered from the most appaling hangovers whenever I've drunk too much and it's far outweighed any enjoyment I could have had the night before.
This is the only reason I never became an alcoholic.
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