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QUOTE (Tex @ Nov 6, 2010 -> 08:51 PM) ALright, anyone want to help me with some ratios? I am thinking of a Eggnog Vodka Whipped cream Monin Gingerbread syrup I also have available Kahlua, Godiva white chocolate liquor, ameretto, cream, half and half. Outback is serving the Gingerbread martini that follows and I have no Bailey's or whisky in the house. She who must be kept happy enjoyed it and I'm trying to mix up something similar. We are knocking back a couple bloody mary's right now so I may need to only get close. 1 ounce Ketel One vodka 1 ounce Baileys Irish Cream liqueur 1/2 ounce Kahlúa liqueur 1/2 ounce Monin gingerbread syrup 1/2 scoop vanilla ice cream — semi-melted Whipped cream Gingerbread cookie Those ratios look good — a gingerbread mudslide without the Bailys. I would up the Kahlua to a full ounce (or half the other liquor allotments to match if you want to keep the drink on the lower alcohol side) and pull the trigger.

The Ron Atlantico and Matusalem Gran Reserva produced one of the best mai tais I have had in a while. As for coconut cream recipes, I divide them into two groups — the ones with lime juice and the ones without lime juice. Lime juice and coco lopez is an unusual flavor combination that not everybody likes and I wasn't even so sure about early on but one that I've grown to love. The go to no-lime coco lopez drinks for me are the painkiller you already know, and the ubiquitous piña colada that is quite a good drink when it's made right. Here's a bulletproof blended piña colada recipe: • 1 1/2 oz light rum • 2 oz Coco Lopez cream of coconut • 2 oz pineapple juice blend smooth with 1 to 1-1/2 cup crushed ice, depending on how good your blender is (you can blend smooth using less ice with a quality blender). To mix things up I'll often also do Coruba coladas by subbing dark Jamaican rum for the light rum as well a Kahlua coladas by subbing Kahlua. Both are excellent. For vodka drinkers, subbing vodka for rum turns your piña colada ito a chi chi. If you want to try an unblended spin on a piña colada, Trader Vic's Bahia is a nice drink: • 2.5 oz unsweetened pineapple juice • 1 oz Lopez coconut cream • 2 oz choice white rum (or 1 oz white and one oz gold for more rum character) Shake with ice and pour over ice in a 10 ounce glass. A dirty little secret of mine is that it was the scary, Windex-colored Blue Hawaiian that first got me into tiki drinks. It's still a good one, low alcohol and quite suitable for low-octane consumers: • 3 oz pineapple juice • 1 oz gold rum • 1 oz cream of coconut • 1/2 oz blue curacao Shake with ice, pour and serve, garnished to the hilt with pineapple wedges, lime wedges, plastic jungle animals, and paper parasols. Now in the plus-lime category, probably the winner is Beachbum Berry's original Coconaut from his Grog Log. It's a modern interpretation of several 1950s and 1960s faux Polynesian cocktails that are all worth a try. The ingredient ratios Berry gives are intended to serve 2 to 4, so scale accordingly: • 8 oz coconut cream • 2 oz lime juice (other vintage drinks called for a lot more) • 7 0z dark Jamaican rum (Coruba ftw) Blend in a blender full of ice until slushy. Tastes best served out of natural or ceramic coconut mugs. For pyrotechnic flair, you can make the Beachbum's Coconaut Reentry by floating a cleaned out half lime shell filled with 151 rum and set alight. Mind your eyebrows and do this earlier in the drinking night rather than later :-)

Bedford Stuy? Did he ride his motorcycle in the rain too?

We'll have to simply agree you are wrong - quiche is delicious.

QUOTE (Felix @ Nov 6, 2010 -> 07:32 PM) I have a friend that just bought a bottle of it (god only knows why... I just went to the store today and it was $180+tax), and he was nice enough to let me have a glass. I know he had one at a bar last weekend which was $20, though. Picked up a bottle of Crown Royal Reserve today though, which I'm really looking forward to tasting. I have way too many bottles of whiskey right now (Johnny Red, Black, Green, Crown Royal Reserve, Bushmills, Wild Turkey, Maker's Mark). Overkill much? Add a bottle of Bulleit And a good rye into the mix and you are totally in business.

Relegated to a side dish, quiche is fine any time.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Nov 5, 2010 -> 05:13 PM) World’s Most Expensive Beer Made From Melted Antarctic Ice Glacial water and ice are apparently a new chic trend in the high end adult beverage world. At this year's Tales of the Cocktail gathering in New Orleans, one of the highlights was enjoying vintage cocktails served with hand carved ice balls made from Arctic glacial ice.

QUOTE (NIUSox @ Nov 5, 2010 -> 02:53 PM) This is why I love The Discovery Channel. Very Cool!

Colonal Mustard did it in the. . .

X-Rated in polite company I'm sure.

Vagisil spokeswomen probably don't get asked out on many dates.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 02:01 PM) bababooey bababooey howardsternspenis bababooey bababooey

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:51 PM) You can see why I though of you first, Jimmy. My liver thanks you for the recognition.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 11:22 AM) General info. Maybe two or three paragraphs. Where it's made, its history, how it tastes, your personal memory or someone else's personal memory of it. Kind of like what we already do in the Finer Things thread.

QUOTE (3E8 @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 12:21 PM) I do worry a bit about a beer list. I'm anticipating a Corona and Dos Equis landing near the top which would be cringe-worthy Without limiting the category to micro/craft/regional brands, yes you do run the risk of some of the megas showing up high on the list — but that will just alert you as to who you should and shouldn't pick as a drinking buddy.

QUOTE (knightni @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 11:07 AM) If someone wants to write the bio for each beer, I can do the beer list. /I'm lookin' at you, Flaxx Meh, sounds like work, but as long as I can drink a beer while writing about beer I'm game.

QUOTE (The Gooch @ Nov 3, 2010 -> 09:58 AM) If we can't do beer because not everyone drinks, I think video games would be out because not everyone plays video games. I bet there are more people on here that drink beer than play video games. For me, it's more the point that ni is not a beer drinker. He puts a ton of time into doing the off-season SoxTalk lists and does an outstanding job of it, so I'd at least like him to enjoy the subject matter of the lists he's compiles. As for video games, I'd love an old fart offshoot list that just considered back-in-the-day coin-op arcade games. It was a totally different world when you had to sup[port your habit a quarter at a time down at the burnout arcade.

Oooohh, an all Dominican mai tai with Ron Atlantico and Matusalem Gran Reserva is quite exceptional. Using a homemade orgeat syrup that really gives it a velvety smoothness.

QUOTE (dasox24 @ Nov 2, 2010 -> 11:38 PM) I'm going to miss the Fall seasonal beers. They're already being phased out it seems to some Winter ales. But I will say, I had a fantastic pumpkin-spice beer from Cottonwood last week, and Hacker Oktoberfest was delicious as well. The Hacker Oktoberfest was indeed delicious — probably my favorite of the Munich festbiers this year. I actually baked some pumpkin meat during Halloween pumpkin carving and made pumpkin juice to do a nice pumpkin grog with Sailor Jerry and Old New Orleans spiced rums and some fresh apple cider. Very seasonal and tasty.

OK, I'm sipping the Ron Atlantico neat and finding it to be most excellent. Quite like Zacapa 23 or Zaya Gran Reserva — maybe slightly less sweet than Zacapa. Gorgeous dark amber color with heavy legs that give way to beads of rum on the sides of the glass. Caramel, vanilla, toffee and maybe a bit of smoke on the nose. All that and more on the swallow with a long lingering caramel finish. At $27, this rum is an absolute bargain. Need to try it in a couple of cocktail next. I make a shaken/served up daiquiri with Zaya and Canton ginger liqueur that I think this will work equally well in. It might also be a nice rich tum to pair with an agricole in a mai tai.

I have been eying Ron Atlantico private Cask rum from the Dominican Republic for about a year, and finally picked up a bottle tonight. It's a solera style (fractional blending) aged rum blended from select small casks aged 15-25 years and it has been compared favorably to similarly aged fine rums like Zaya and Zacapa 23. Looking forward to sipping this one tonight.

Epton died less than three weeks after Mayor Washington died which I thought was an interesting coincidence.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Nov 1, 2010 -> 08:35 PM) I made a comment on Facebook about seeing a woman that was skinny and had huge tits so her bra size had to be 28DDD, and my Japanese friend (i.e. Japanese national from Japan) asked what that meant. I said it's a bra size but it's exaggerated, she said oh Japanese sizes are different, I'm a 75F. I put that in a converter and it said that's a 34DD so she asks me "is that good or bad?" I told her I don't know what Japanese men like but in America that's usually very, very good. lol. Wait, you have an international bra size converter?? s***, you take boobs seriously. Also, is that an iPhone app?

I appreciate that beers is a tough one, and also that knightni the Listmaster General doesn't drink beer, so o worries if we shelf that. Video games is intriguing, but me and the other old farts are going to have radically different lists than most of the board. How about favorite television commercials??