Ever since my teenage years watching “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on TV-14 out of Mt. Pleasant I’ve been a fan of British comedies. I’m saddened to to hear that Molly Sugden - Mrs Slocombe from “Are You Being Served” - passed away today. She was a classy old lay that answered all of her fan mail personally, and will be missed.
It’s a cold, miserable day here in Michigan. I wish I was down-island…maybe someplace like Antigua.
It’s Friday. Have a beer, like my friends below.
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A sweet drink to be enjoyed in the summer.
1 3/4 measures Dark rum
1 1/2 measures Cream of coconut
Top up with Soda water
Cracked Ice
Method
Mix the rum and cream of coconut together with the ice.
Top up with soda water, stir and serve with a straw.
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“Industry experts claim the market for vintage whiskey has been flooded with fakes that purport to be several hundred years old but instead contain worthless spirit made just a few years ago. Now researchers at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit have developed a method that can pinpoint the date a whiskey was made by detecting traces of radioactive particles created by nuclear bomb tests in the 1950s. ‘”It is easy to tell if whiskey is fake as if it has been produced since the middle of the twentieth century, it has a very distinctive signature,” says Dr. Tom Higham, deputy director of the facility. Nuclear bomb testing in the 1950s saw levels of carbon-14 in the atmosphere rise around the world so the amount of isotope absorbed by living organisms since this time has been artificially elevated. Whiskey extracted from antique bottles is sent to the laboratory where scientists burn the liquid and bombard the resulting gas with electrically charged particles so they can measure the carbon-14 in the sample. In one recent case, a bottle of 1856 Macallan Rare Reserve was withdrawn from auction at Christies, where it was expected to sell for up to £20,000, after the scientists found it had actually been produced in 1950. “So far there have probably been more fakes among the samples we’ve tested than real examples of old whiskey,” says Higham.’”
Tequila
Today is Cinco de Mayo, a wonderful chance for non-Mexicans to drink excessively in celebration of a historical event they know nothing about. But instead of spending your night sleeping in the gutter while wearing a 99-cent sombrero, why not investigate the classy side of tequila this year? As Joanne Weir stresses in “Tequila: A Guide to Types, Flights, Cocktails, and Bites,” the spirit deserves a finer appreciation than it normally receives on the sticky floor of a frat house.
http://www.asylum.com/2009/05/05/gentlemans-guide-to-drinking-tequila-on-cinco-de-mayo/
Caribbean Business Online notes - “Bacardi Corp. announced Friday that it was restructuring its Puerto Rico bottling operations, a move that will result in the elimination of 77 local jobs over the next year.”
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Master mixologist Gary Reagan has come up with a list of 10 drinks that you absolutely must learn how to make if you want to hold your head high in this world of cocktail mavens, and also offers some good advice:
I have one more thing to add, and it’s a tidbit of information that all good bartenders know: Making drinks is easy. Don’t be intimidated. It’s a piece of cake. Honest.
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