Fortune her brother Finn Decide Celebrate St Patrick's Day with a Drink off

Este é um relato de um amigo pessoal sobre o uso viciante de bebidas alcoólicas e sua cura;

Leia com atenção e tenha acesso a informações confidenciais, inclusive, sobre se o Drink Off funciona mesmo.

A seguir você vai ler um relato surpreende.

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What would happen if Tony Stark and Leonard McCoy tried to drink the other under the table? And who would win

Hubby and I say: They would either die of alcohol poisoning or Tony would get hyper and Leo would think of the many ways he could kill Tony and not get caught. We also say Leo would win because Tony is supposed to be sober and he is bigger and you just dont make them like that old cowboy (hubby’s words not mine) 

This head-to-head is a good example of why these kinds of competitions are ridiculous. I didn’t really understand that when I started this year-long Drink Off, but it is abundantly clear that pitting drinks against one another – even drinks with the same base spirit – is a fool’s errand.

However! It’s still fun, even if it’s silly, so onward!

Martini

½ cup gin (Bombay Sapphire straight from the freezer)

1 capful Noilly Prat dry vermouth

olives

(recipe feeds 2)

Gin Julep

8-10 fresh mint leaves muddled with

¼ oz lime juice

¼ oz lemon juice and

1 tsp sugar, then add

2 oz gin (Bombay Sapphire straight from the freezer)

fresh mint sprig

My husband pointed out what a hard comparison this is because the drinks are so incompatible. Yes. But, as my husband also said, “they’re both good, but I can’t bring myself to vote against a martini.” I had a strict rule of presenting the drinks without saying what they were, but a martini is a pretty obvious drink, so he figured it out probably just by looking at it, but definitely within the first sip. Martinis are one of the world’s great drinks, and Gin Juleps are one of the world’s good drinks. Ergo:

I’m not even sure why we bothered with this particular matchup – oh, wait! I remember now! So we could drink mint juleps, duh.

Mint Julep

fresh mint leaves muddled with

1 tsp simple syrup (1:2 water:sugar)

then add

2 oz bourbon (Maker’s Mark)

fresh mint sprig

Mr. Jefferson’s Brambles

1 ¼ oz applejack (Laird’s)

¼ oz apricot brandy (Marie Brizard Apry)

¼ oz Raspberry Shrub

The Brambles was “cough syrupy. Really good cough syrup, but still,” said my husband. And the Mint Juleps were “an amazing sensory experience.” So that’s that.

Hoo boy, I am not a speedster at reporting this. Which bums me out! I have lots of new cocktails I want to write about, but I have to get these old ones out of the way!  So, here we go:

Golden Delicious

1 oz applejack (I used Laird’s)

½ oz Goldwasser

½ oz lemon juice

dash Peychaud’s bitters

Barnum (Was Right)

2 oz gin (Bombay Sapphire)

1 oz apricot brandy (Marie Brizard Apry)

½ oz lemon juice

2 dashes Angostura bitters

These two drinks were not dramatically different, so the judging was harder. Also, the classic Coke v Pepsi problem asserted itself: initially the sweeter drink seems better, but once you taste them for the third, fourth, fifth time, you stop liking the sweet so much.

The Golden Delicious wins because it was brisker and less cloying. The Barnum (Was Right) gave a good noseful, and initially had a bit more going on, but ultimately was too sweet. (Apry will do that to a drink.)

I am, ahem, somewhat behind in posting these results (unless you happen to be the type of person for whom 17 months late doesn’t really count as late), so I will limit myself to the recipes and the comments I recorded at the time of drinking. I gotta get these posted so I can move on to new drinks!

Old Fashioned

muddle:

1 teaspoon white sugar

½ slice orange

1 Luxardo cherry

9 dashes Angostura bitters

then add

2 oz bourbon (I used Maker’s Mark)

Canis Mingo

1 oz Cointreau

½ oz limoncello

½ oz apricot brandy (I used Marie Brizard Apry)

1 ½ oz lemon juice

dash Pernod

Comments on the Old Fashioned: “lovely, dark and deep,” and “tastes like a serious-ass drink; it’s not trying to be friendly.”

Comments on the Canis Mingo: “that’s good!” and “it’s somehow so fruity, yet really refreshing; sweet but not cloyingly so.”

My husband voted for the Canis Mingo, in point of fact, but that’s obviously nonsense. My analysis – which is clearly the correct one* – is that the Canis Mingo is Pepsi and the Old Fashioned is Coke. Taste tests have demonstrated that if you take one sip of both of those drinks, Pepsi wins, but if you have to drink the whole can, Coke is what you prefer.

WINNER: Old Fashioned

We drank these of a Sunday afternoon with our delightful real estate agent who made us buy our apartment in the spring of 2013. I had not loved the apartment (to put it mildly) when I walked in the first few times, but the combination of desperation and a dawning realization that we could not afford any other apartment with a similar amount of space led me to reconsider. I’m glad we bought it, although the things I disliked about it (long, extremely narrow hallway and terrible bathroom layout) have somehow still not endeared themselves to me. Ah well. At least I’m back home in New York!

Pimm’s Julep

1 oz Pimm’s No. 1

1 oz bourbon (I used Jim Beam)

1-2 teaspoons of muddled mint bourbon

2-3 oz fizzy lemonade

squeeze lemon wedge

mint sprig garnish

Corpse Reviver #2

1 oz gin (I used Half Moon Orchard)

1 oz Cointreau

1 oz Lillet Blanc

1 oz lemon juice

drop or two of Pernod

Comments on the Pimm’s Julep: “more going on,  I love the mint,” and  “a mint julep gone wrong.” Wait, what? Gone wrong? The reasons for that comment are lost to time (these drinks were drunk 17 months prior to me writing these words) (I know, I know, ease up), so I’ll never know why a delicious drink was described as having gone wrong. Oh well.

As for the Corpse Reviver #2: “wow, this is exciting,” “on the Riviera in summer,” “going to the races.” I mean, yes, Corpse Reviver #2s are delicious and exciting, so this makes sense, but, in spite of the Riviera-invoking qualities of the drink, it did not prevail.