A friend is bringing over some nice rum. I have limes, St. Germain, dry and sweet vermouth, and club soda.
What would be a good drink to make?
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A friend is bringing over some nice rum. I have limes, St. Germain, dry and sweet vermouth, and club soda.
What would be a good drink to make?
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BGinCHI
Does your friend have a belly button?
1badbaba3
Behave yourself! Behave yourself!
DougJ
@BGinCHI:
Not that kind.
el_gallo
(Not quite a) caipirinha
Highball-ish glass
1/2 lime, muddled with
2 teaspoons suger
Fill glass with ice, then add
2 oz rum
Shake ever so briefly
Sip.
JenJen
Hmmmm. Vermouth and rum don’t go together. Suggestion: Run to the store, pick up some grenadine and some sweet & sour mix (unless you make your own).
Put a level scoop of ice into a cocktail shaker. Add an ounce of rum, just a splash of grenadine, and just enough sweet & sour mix until the ice floats. Shake, and pour contents into a rocks glass. That’s called a Bacardi Cocktail and it’s a long, lost drink that is a favorite go-to of mine to recommend to my guests.
You could also just go get some Coca-Cola, throw an ounce or so of rum into a highball glass packed with ice, add enough Coke to the top of the glass, garnish with a lime wedge. Voila!! A Cuba Libre!
WereBear
Not a vermouth fan.
But slice up a lime (take the ends off, of course) and drop it into a rocks glass. Then sprinkle with some sugar, brown if you got it. Now mash it up with a big spoon.
Throw in your rum, and ice, then fill with club soda. Presto! A sparkling caipirinha. Brazil won’t mind.
WereBear
@el_gallo: Ah, ya beat me. But great minds think alike.
And, of course:
Put the lime in the coconut, and shake it all up…
Linnaeus
Go to Webtender. Click on the In My Bar link. Choose what you have on hand, and Webtender shows you what drinks you can make (based on its own database, of course).
taylormattd
Some gin and tonics.
Oh wait, that wasn’t helpful, it’s just what I want right now, sorry. :)
el_gallo
Club soda in a caipirinha?!? Sir, we may need to step outside and have words. Words about the joys of undiluted rum.
Winston Smith
We need a drink that you can chug every time Todd Akin renews his pledge to stay in the race.
(He did so at a press conference an hour ago. The Freepers were praying that the event was him quitting.)
The Voice
@DougJ:
Oh…
So, your friend has an “outie”?
Zifnab
You put the lime in the coconut and shake it all up.
thatguy
Classic Daquiri. Done. Great summer drink.
Classic Daiquiri
2 ounces light rum
1/2 ounce simple syrup
1 ounce fresh lime juice
Shake well with ice.
Teddy's Person
If you have some mint make mojitos.
YoohooCthulhu
Vermouth doesn’t go with rum.
Simple daiquiri:
2 ounces light rum
3/4 ounce lime juice
3/4 ounce simple syrup
If you have maraschino liqueur…
Hemingway Daiquiri (“Papa Doble”)
2 oz white rum
1 oz fresh lime juice
½ oz fresh grapefruit juice
¼ oz maraschino liqueur
1½ to 2 cups shaved ice
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Add some good craft gin to the tiniest little bit of that dry vermouth, stir in an ice filled shaker. Garnish with a twist of lime zest (after rubbing the glass rim with a spare)and voila, Mexican martini. Leave the rum and all that sweet shit for the sissies.
eric
The Akin
First, crush one moderate
Add mouthful of gibberish
Then
1 part GOP establishment, shaken
1 part Rush Limbaugh, shaken
serve with side of popcorn.
1badbaba3
Not a drinker. But if you want to talk about Jah love mon, ‘dat would be iree.
BGinCHI
@DougJ: Not that kind of belly button?
Is your friend an android?
? Martin
@BGinCHI: No, Mitt wouldn’t bring rum.
Ann Rynd
Put mouth to bottle top.
Tilt bottle upwards
Swallow
Repeat
Say something a pirate might say.
DougJ
@Ann Rynd:
Avast ye maties?
Comrade Mary
Doctor, ain’t there nothing I can take?
LanceThruster
Please! My people (Russians) would drink the de-icing solution from Soviet planes regardless of the risk of going blind.
Mix whatever you got with whatever else you got and call it a …
Muddy Waters
mainmati
Palmetto:
equal parts rum and dry vermouth (how much up to you and your friend) and a couple of dashes of bitters. Over the rocks or not (I like rum at room temp the way it was intended to be drunk).
Roger Moore
You need to make yourself some grog. Honestly is there any better named drink out there?
LanceThruster
@Ann Rynd:
You’re fired?
Mnemosyne
@el_gallo:
@WereBear:
Clearly the mojito’s day in the sun is gone, because no one remembered that rum, lime, sugar and club soda gets you most of the way to a mojito (lacking only the mint).
ETA: Teddy’s Person remembered — clearly my soulmate!
eric
@Roger Moore: The “Romney” mix water and ice and call it vodka on rocks.
Ann Rynd
@DougJ:
Arghh, then look for pirate woman or whatever.
DougJ
@LanceThruster:
In Soviet Russia, plane de-ice you.
el_gallo
@Mnemosyne: I purposefully didn’t mention it, ’cause I’m not a big mint fan, and I’m all about foisting my own petty likes and dislikes on everyone else.
Todd
If you’ve got some bitters and nutmeg about, you might try working the St Germain into the rum for a wicked Planters Punch.
Jamey
How about a Rum, St Germain, lime, vermouth, and seltzer over ice? Old family recipe!
sylvan
Sip rum with ice and observe.
Let nature take its course with the other stuff.
mai naem
I hardly drink so I don’t know sheet about drinks but the google is mah friend and it says you can make a Vermouth Cassis with Creme de Cassis. I had to look up what Creme de Cassis was and apparently it’s a black currant liquer that works well in pousse-cafés. Pousse-cafes you say what does that mean? Well, that’s what I said, not that my mind was in the gutter or anything. It means coffee pusher. You learn something new everyday.
beltane
Josh Trevino has already gotten himself fired from The Guardian http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2012/08/the-guardian-drops-joshua-trevino-133138.html
? Martin
@Jamey: Why do I have a feeling that if corned beef and peanut butter had been in the original list of ingredients, those too would have been in your old family recipe?
lamh35
I don’t really drink much (except occasional marguarita) so no suggestions from me.
But I sure need some strong suggestions, cause this Romney birther joke BS really pissed me off, particularly with people who write it off as “just a joke”. Nevermind the dog-whistling welfare ads, nevermind the “anglo-saxon” relations bullshit, nevermind the “doesn’t understand what it is to be an American” bullshit…it was just a joke. Or as Romney defended it “the crowd loved it”…yeah well guess what people used to love watching a lynching too…don’t make lynching right!
I’m seriously reaching what some called the “Roots” point. It the idea that after watching Alex Haley’s Roots, or “Rosewood” or “Misissippi Burning” where I just need a day or two to come down off my anger before I just explode at the next white person for real or subtle or imagined racial actions.
I’m actually really just tired of it. And that makes me more pissed off damnit black people in America as a whole have taken a whole lot of things in stride in this country and ugh forget it…it just pisses me off.
I need something stronger than a margurita I think. Wish I was in NOLA a Daiquri or Hurricane would probably do me some good.
ETA: Oh wait, I forgot to add the disrespecting of the NAACP in their own house and then going in front of his white brethren to tell “those people” if they want to be handed free stuff vote for the the other guy.
Wow. It’s not the “joke” people, it’s the damn pattern that is emerging and it really pisses my people off.
Not surprising he to 0% of AA vote in that NBC/WSJ poll
Shane in Utah
I’m with Sylvan @36. If it’s really nice rum (read: Zaya, Ron Pampero Anniversario, or Ron Zacapa), sip that shit neat. Mixed drinks are for people who don’t like the taste of alcohol…
negative 1
In a highball glass:
Muddle the lime with a little bit (1/2 oz or so, or 1/2 a shot if all you have is a shot glass) of St. Germain. Fill with ice, fill about halfway with club soda, fill to taste (i.e. – not until you cringe or can breathe fire) with rum.
Sip.
joeyess
A Gin Rickey:
2 parts Gin
1 part freshly squeezed lime juice
fill a cocktail glass with ice to the brim. Cram it in there.
Add lime juice, Gin, and top off with soda water.
Tastes just like a Squirt without the sugar.
Excellent.
joeyess
@beltane: That didn’t take long.
Seems all it takes is 3 paragraphs of ridicule from Tbogg and these wingnuts disappear like Jimmy Hoffa.
I suggest that we unleash the Boggyman on all the wingnuts from this point forward.
Hill Dweller
@lamh35: You knew the media would cover for Willard, especially going into the convention.
Willard’s “the crowd loved it” rationalization is every bit as bad as the joke. It was a crowd of old white republicans; of course they’re going to laugh at his racist joke.
LanceThruster
@DougJ:
xD
kindness
Get a blender, ice, fresh (or frozen) mangos, peaches, strawberrys, bananas, pinapples, coconut mix & make some great Pina Coladas.
Alcohol smoothies…yum!
Joel
Sounds like the Red Sox are about to dump second least favorite player Josh Beckett and non-injury disclosing, possible juicer Carl Crawford on the Dodgers, who apparently desperately want Adrian Gonzalez.
burnspbesq
@Winston Smith:
I believe that drink is called Freeper Tears. There is considerable controversy as to what the ingredients are.
AHH onna Droid
@lamh35: the white wing. It’s how kkk angel s earn their sheets.
JK
Go get some decent ginger beer and make a dark and stormy with a squeeze of lime
joeyess
@beltane: Tbogg takes the credit.
And…. scene…..
tomvox1
Dude, just get some Mexican sugar Coca-Cola & forget all that other shit. Cuba Libre, baby!
burnspbesq
@LanceThruster:
More likely “This entire department is fired, and if you want your pension, call the PBGC.”
Omnes Omnibus
Rum, ice, and little bit of lime.
wrb
ekkk.
Throw that crap away & go out and get a nice bottle of Scotch, or perhaps a Barolo or Brunello.
Roger Moore
@lamh35:
It’s not “just” a joke; it’s a joke designed especially to appeal to unreconstructed racists. If Mitt is actively courting the racist vote, he deserves to be called out for it.
This is about the same thing I think every time somebody tries to excuse their bigoted behavior as a joke. Maybe it is a joke, but it’s a joke that only a bunch of bigots will think is funny. That you and your friends think it’s funny still says something.
joes527
Tip up the bottles and drink
Drink the rum first. The sweet vermouth will taste like shit straight until you are good and smashed.
LanceThruster
@burnspbesq:
I stand corrected. And then add the “Arrrgh“?
LanceThruster
@burnspbesq:
I stand corrected. And then add the “Arrrgh“?
JGabriel
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Winston Smith:
In that case, we should probably recommend the ayahuasca. That’s about the weakest thing I can think of that would make Todd Akin sufferable (as opposed to insufferable).
.
catclub
Mitt is claiming no one has asked about his birth cert.
Obama could follow up with “No one has asked about my tax forms because I released them.” Even better if he made a joke about a manufacture certificate.
NotMax
@mai naem (#37)
A pousse cafe alcohol drink is one of the most complicated to make, consisting of liqueurs of differing densities and colors (plus often brandy or cognac) floated one atop the other.
Some classic pousse cafe recipes: #1 – #2
Violet
@Winston Smith:
@burnspbesq:
Ha! Made me laugh. Let’s see…One part–no, make that two parts–Everclear, one part white man’s piss, one part anti-pregnancy rape secretions. Sounds delicious.
Omnes Omnibus
@catclub: Or proof of purchase seal.
catclub
@Roger Moore: Seconded.
“it’s a joke designed especially to appeal to unreconstructed racists.”
And a sign of desperation if he thinks he needs to appeal to them still.
Lojasmo
Not sure about you kids and yer mixed drinks.
NotMax
@mai naem
Cassis is also handy to have around (and delicious), to drizzle over vanilla ice cream.
And in a Kir (cassis with champagne or other wine), scrumptious.
maya
@Winston Smith:
A Piñata Colada?
Violet
Oh, man. I just saw the clip of Romney’s birther comment. There are nuns behind him cheering up a storm after he says it. Nuns! WTF?
NotMax
@Winston Smith
Though not something I’d care to drink, there is a bar recipe for the White Man which might be appropos for GOP convention drinking games. :)
Also too, the Millionaire.
sylvan
I’m gonna have me some fun.
Long Tall Sally, etc.
MikeJ
Go to the liquor store and buy gin.
I have rum on hand but the only thing I ever use it for is part of the marinade in jerk chicken.
moops
@Roger Moore:
actually, I did find Romney’s joke funny. Not the way he and his audience did. I’m just finding it bewildering that he is such a lousy politician. He has been wanting this job for so long.
it is also nice to see all the apologists flail away. It is nice to see the bigots around us out themselves to thoroughly. I knew it would happen as soon as I heard saw the quote.
MikeJ
Go to the liquor store and buy gin.
I have rum on hand but the only thing I ever use it for is part of the marinade in jerk chicken.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Sorry, mate. If I have absinthe, I am not wasting it on a millionaire.
arguingwithsignposts
@Hill Dweller: It was a crowd of old white republicans…
Is there any other kind?
maya
@Violet: They’re probably the Sisters of Parody
Violet
@maya: They were old school nuns with the head covering and robes. They weren’t wearing the newer nun outfits, like below-knee skirts and sensible shoes and bare heads.
I don’t see a lot of “Sound of Music”-style nuns these days. Is that some ultra-conservative sect of Catholicism?
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Technically, it’s a Kir if it’s white wine and Creme de Cassis, and a Kir Royale if it’s Champagne and Creme de Cassis.
schrodinger's cat
BTW did any one read TNC’s long article in the Atlantic? Shorter TNC, Obama is wimp because he does not have the courage to address the issues of race, as TNC would like to have them addressed. Of course, and since he used drones he is just like Cheney.
Violet
@efgoldman: The media doesn’t like Willard. They’re still in their horse race rut, but it’s hard to hold on to that. Romney is such a disaster as a candidate, Republicans are being outed on a daily basis as the party of bigots, racists, misogynists, and other horrible people. At some point they’re going to crack and stop playing the “both sides do it” card. I think that point is coming sooner rather than later. Maybe the convention will be the breaking point.
different-church-lady
If it’s really nice rum, you drink it straight.
Otherwise, you’re coincidentally veering towards things I’ve been experimenting with lately, and not successfully, having had a plethora of limes to run through. I’m finding that the lime/vermouth combination just ain’t doing it for me. You can look up the Floridita to get an idea.
Leaving out the vermouth, you could get some mint and try a St. Germain mojito, using the St. G. in place of the sugar. Put the mint at the bottom, cube up half a lime, muddle the cubes over the mint, then add the rum, St. G. and club soda.
St. G is quite nice, but can be cloyingly sweet when used too much. It needs some dryness to counter it, which is why it pairs well in a cocktail glass with champagne or dry white wine. Ideally you’d have lemons instead of limes and then just have a blast experimenting with something that wasn’t a highball-form.
scav
Ah, the shining honor of Mitt, he’s reached the “I’ll say anything to the crowd in front of me at the time so long as it gets cheers.” pinnacle of principled campaigning.
schrodinger's cat
More on TNC article,
It starts of really well but the last two pages but goes downhill after the first two pages. Just like the NYT op-ed, which started of well before it disintegrated into both sides do it Village wisdom.
different-church-lady
@Joel: Who’s the least favorite, if not Beckett?
Maude
@Violet:
I didn’t see the media covering for Romney at all about the racist “joke”.
He is despicable.
Steeplejack
What was the nice rum that was brought over?
My standard rum drink is two ounces of Mount Gay and seven or eight ounces of tonic over ice, with an eighth of a lime squeezed and then dropped in the drink. I’m not usually a brand ho’, but Schweppes tonic water always tastes indefinably better than Canada Dry or others.
My other go-to rum is Barbancourt. (I prefer the three-star to the five-star.) If you like darky dark rums, Gosling’s Black Seal has that 30-weight motor oil quality.
different-church-lady
And, of course, I left out the most important consideration: what style of rum is it?
rikyrah
Apple won versus Samsung
Roger Moore
@efgoldman:
It’s very rare for a player to use a no-trade clause to completely block a trade. It’s much more common to use the no-trade rights as a bargaining chip to demand some kind of extra money or other concessions to the player as compensation for waiving the right. Not to mention that very few players will block a trade from an also-ran to a contender.
As far as trading players on the DL, IIRC that it’s not allowed directly. Teams commonly work around that by including a PTBNL as part of the trade with the understanding that the player will be named as soon as he comes off the DL.
NotMax
@MikeJ
Only reason I keep rum in the domicile is to use when making Bananas Foster. (There are lots of variations of this, incorporating various spices and sometimes banana liqueur, but I prefer the simplest version – if only light rum on hand, that works nearly as well, just add a touch of molasses or use dark brown sugar in place of light brown.)
Ash Can
I’ve never had St-Germain, but after reading up on it I don’t see how it can go with rum. Seltzer and a little dry vermouth, maybe, even with a touch of lime. But that rum? I second the suggestion of drinking it neat if it’s that good, and leave the other stuff in the cabinet, unless it’s to have plain club soda on the side, maybe with a wedge of lime.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: Well, I’m a caipirinha fan (by marriage, my bro married a lovely Brazilian lady.)
But my favorite place grows mint in the window so they can make FRESH mojitos. One of the many reasons it is my favorite place.
Mike in NC
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wasn’t absinthe banned in the US for years because it could allegedly make you blind? Apparently you can buy it now but it’s quite pricey. We saw it a few years ago while vacationing on St. Martin. All the liquor stores carried it and it was about as cheap as bottled water, though I didn’t care for the taste.
Joel
@different-church-lady: Lackey.
Joel
@different-church-lady: Lackey.
Joel
@different-church-lady: Lackey.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike in NC: It was banned in many places.
Joel
Does anyone know how to fix this double-triple posting issue that I’ve been having?
Chrome for Mac…
Roger Moore
@Mike in NC:
You don’t like drinking nuclear mouth wash? What’s wrong with you?
scav
There are a lot of myths about absinthe, many more fantastic than others. Adds to the charm for some.
Ann Rynd
@Mike in NC:
Hollewscinations that made hewmens go mad and want to do violence like Van Gogh did to himself. An artists way of going insane. Very chic.
Keith
The Velvet Hammer? The Alabama Slammer?
(sorry, Cocktail’s been on a lot lately)
different-church-lady
@Joel: I forgot he was still “with” the team.
And really, forgetting him has been the only bright spot on the entire season.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
One of the reasons I linked to a recipe which suggests substituting Pernod for the absinthe.
damn good mr. jam
Make this.
Presidente Vincent
1.5 ounces rum
1 ounce dry vermouth
1 ounce lime juice
half teaspoon sugar
Shake, strain into sugar-rimmed cocktail glass.
different-church-lady
OT: I’m still trying to comprehend how USADA has the authority to strip Armstrong of his TdF titles. On the Wiki there’s a statement saying they have recommended it, but UCI hasn’t decided to follow the recommendation or not. Is it just lazy-ass press reporting that makes it sound like they have the authority, or lazy-ass press reporting that fails to explain why they actually do have the authority?
different-church-lady
@Keith: He said good drink.
gelfling545
@Ash Can: Champagne – it goes beautifully with champagne. Indeed, I wish I had either or both right now.
dww44
@schrodinger’s cat: Sorry, I disagree with your synopsis. My takeaway is that politically BO was always in a box and that he couldn’t survive, POLITICALLY, if he directly addressed the race issue. Coates gives several concrete examples to prove this. In the end, the President’s problem is the American electorate. A goodly number of us are out and out racists and will DO anything to prevent a good and capable man from being reelected. I did not view the article as an attack on the President but rather an explanation of his actions in context of the times in which he is trying, honorably, to govern for all of the country.
I’m working to reelect this President. How about you?
gelfling545
@schrodinger’s cat: I did indeed read the article but I didn’t come away with the same impression you did. Seemed to me that TNC was talking about the constraints that the President’s position and our culture have put on his ability to address the questions of race.
schrodinger's cat
@gelfling545: Yes he does that, but he is also disappointed in Obama for not achieving the impossible
@dww44: To me he seems to be blaming Obama for not trying harder to get out of that box. He compares Obama to Booker T Washington.
From the article
He also thinks that on issues of race Obama tells the country what it wants to hear not what it needs to hear.
From the article:
maya
@Violet:There are still “old-style” nuns in full wipple and who may even carry the traditional ruler up their sleeve. I actually had one like that. That was years ago, however.
And, yes, they do tend to be conservative in outlook and do everything the ober-mensch in Rome tells them to.
WereBear
That’s my sippin’ rum!
different-church-lady
@WereBear: People, people…
http://www.ministryofrum.com/rumdetails.php?r=385
I am hereby claiming this is a 151 proof beverage smooth enough to sip.
Note that the use of “sip” is singular in this context.
Otherwise, one must try the Appleton 12 year old — a rum with a finish like cognac.
Steeplejack
@WereBear:
Yeah, it’s a good one for sipping, not so much for mixing. Too overpowering.
Mount Gay has an upscale flavor that is the same way: much stronger and more complex than my usual Mount Gay Eclipse.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax:
A fair point.
dww44
@schrodinger’s cat: But, Coates ends with this:
Whatever issues that TNC has with President Obama, he, like Shirley Sherrod, still “holds his victory in the highest esteem”. He concedes the problem is with us, not so much with the President. Who among us does not recognize that an Angry Black Man would never have been elected President and won’t get re-elected? Barack Obama knew this before 2008 and knows this now. I posit that his rapidly greying hair is not only due to the extraordinary stresses of the job, but the special stresses he has by virtue of always having to tamp down righteous anger at the racist attacks he and his family, unbelievably, must still contend with.
Who among us believes that what Romney said today was intended as a joke? Not me.
Speaking of unfunny jokes, yesterday a not so conservative former neighbor emailed a photo of Obama in a golf cap with “Entitleist” engraved on the front. He thought and still thinks it’s funny. If you google the word, you will get many versions of this current example of dog whistle racism, apart from the sheer political untruth of its inference.
different-church-lady
@dww44:
I am personally of the opinion that Romney is just too damn dumb and clueless to be cognizant of the raw nerve under his quip. It’s one of the things that makes him such an awkward asshole. When a five year old repeats a joke he only partially understands you can shrug it off as learning experience. When a 60 year old man running for president does it it’s just pathetic.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: No, it was a boss joke. You know, where the boss makes a “joke” and everyone is expected to laugh and say “Good one.” That has been Romney’s whole fucking life. He has always been the guy who could tell the boss joke. Fuck him.
burnspbesq
@efgoldman:
No one is that old, even me, and I’m old enough that I delivered the Herald Tribune on my first paper route.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: Probably a combination of the two, now that you mention it: the boss telling a joke he doesn’t understand.
The whole thing is starting to feel like the guy who owns a small auto repair chain in Des Moines who’s trying to fit in and be cool at a Fortune 500 cookout.
kc
Bourbon and water.
jamie d
Get some gin and make martinis and White Linens.
White Linen
· 1 ½ oz gin
· ½ oz St. Germain Elderflower Liquor
· ½ oz Simple Syrup
· 1 oz Lemon (or lime) Juice
· 5-6 thin slices English cucumber
Combine all ingredients in a shaker and shake well. Strain into a highball glass with ice, top with soda water and garnish with a cucumber.
am
Juice the limes, mix with sugar and water to make limeade.
Drink the rum neat.