Ah, but I can cool off quickly...

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showoff....

 

No........unfortunately........an emotional environment is not alien. Many are comfortable and remain there.

I was referencing the physical environment. We are the only aliens to it. All other life/creatures are suited for it.

 

The bottom line is there is good and bad everywhere, it all depends on the whole picture and sense of comfort, quality of life of where you live, not just SNOW!
Max.

Not only migrants puzzle me. Why people insist in returning to their homes located in areas being flooded once or twice a year is close to a mistery. But now that I think of it, there are tornados, hurricanes, typhoons and quakes out there as well...

 

Ah, but I can cool off quickly...

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That just hurts, painful despair... you poor thing, gotta cool off in that "Nice Swimming Pooooooooooooool" arrrg.

kv

 

Not only migrants puzzle me. Why people insist in returning to their homes located in areas being flooded once or twice a year is close to a mistery. But now that I think of it, there are tornados, hurricanes, typhoons and quakes out there as well...

I don't get it either.

kv

 

Not only migrants puzzle me. Why people insist in returning to their homes located in areas being flooded once or twice a year is close to a mistery. But now that I think of it, there are tornados, hurricanes, typhoons and quakes out there as well...

I thought California was the place to be? Mud slides, Forest fires, Drought, Quakes!
A while ago we had a tech guy fly in from California, when we met him at the airport, he said he was afraid to get off the plane, he couldn't see any Air.
He had just left a common air inversion occurrence.
Max.

 

Tonight it's beer at the local Prairie Street Brewery, host of Dinner on the Dock. The best thing to happen in Rockford IL. I'm starting with the nut brown.

 

Best beer commercial.
Max.

 

Never had one... but it sounds interesting:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/foodanddrink/bermuda-dark-n-stormy-cocktail-history/index.html

- 2 ounces Gosling's Black Seal rum
- 4-5 ounces ginger beer
- Lime
- Fill Collins glass with cubed ice, add rum and ginger beer, stir and garnish with lime wedge or wheel.​

 

Never had one... but it sounds interesting:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/foodanddrink/bermuda-dark-n-stormy-cocktail-history/index.html

- 2 ounces Gosling's Black Seal rum
- 4-5 ounces ginger beer
- Lime
- Fill Collins glass with cubed ice, add rum and ginger beer, stir and garnish with lime wedge or wheel.​

Maybe if I've run out of vodka. This is basically a Moscow Mule with dark rum replacing the vodka, which to me doesn't sound great. I like a MM in the summer for its clean crisp freshness. Dark rum doesn't fit with that. I do like the Goslings ginger beer. Best I've found yet.

 

Never had one... but it sounds interesting:

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/23/foodanddrink/bermuda-dark-n-stormy-cocktail-history/index.html

- 2 ounces Gosling's Black Seal rum
- 4-5 ounces ginger beer
- Lime
- Fill Collins glass with cubed ice, add rum and ginger beer, stir and garnish with lime wedge or wheel.​

I'm having the same thing with Mekhong spirit instead of rum with a dash of Angostura Bitters added.

The perfect thing for an Oregon heat wave. In Pattaya we would buy the local Thai 'whiskey' (a mixture of sugar cane rum and rice wine) for cheap and mix it with pineapple juice from one of those little cans.

Hangover Score: 9/10

This is what Pattaya Beach looked like before tourist in the 70's.

The local boats (like in the background) would pick us up from the ships off the coast and drop us off in waist deep water just off the beach. there was not pier or deep water close to town.

Even shore patrol was fun!

 

So, I tried the Cucumber & Mint Drink suggested by @wayneh tonight. Very good, 2 thumbs.

kv

 

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Now, that I have a bottle of Gin, guess what else I'll try next he he. Gin/Martini&Rossi, however, rather than Olives filled with pimento, I'm going to try a Blue Cheese filled green olive.

Pimento's yuk.

kv

Edit: My daughter re-gift a Christmas present the Martini&Rossi was in the house. Now I just need to know how to make a good Martini.

 

I'm going to try a Blue Cheese filled green olive.

Around here that's known as a Wisconsin martini. I prefer very dry, i.e. almost no vermouth. And I do like bitters. I wouldn't leave it out. But tastes vary.

 

I made this one last night.
Ingredients :

- 2 1/2 oz gin
- 1/2 oz dry vermouth
- 1/2 oz rosso vermouth






But, instead of Olives with Pimento. I only had some I purchased from the Olive bar at the health food market. Didn't really like it that much, but I put three in the olives in which helped the flavor, like Joey did in his first picture of the thread. I've always thought a Martini looks great, but couldn't get my taste buds to help me out. So, I felt like my tastes have changed over the years and should give it another try.

Tonight, I'll give your version a try and add some bitters. I might invest in a metal skewer and some Martini Glasses now.

kv

 

I personally prefer my martini as cold as possible. Storing the gin and the glass in the freezer gives best results but a good bartender will ice the glass and pour your shaken martini from a strainer. Mmmm....

 

I do not understand why so much vermouth was added to your libation?

I will typically add perhaps a half ounce (no more!) to my well chilled glass, swirl it around, then pour it out.

Another technique is to hold the well chilled glass in a raised salute in the general direction of Italy (a country renowned for making fine vermouth) before adding the gin.

Three olives is standard. One is too few, two are unlucky.

 

Vermouth in a martini is a little like cream in coffee. It's what noobs do as they begin their path towards the straight stuff.

 

Another technique is to hold the well chilled glass in a raised salute in the general direction of Italy (a country renowned for making fine vermouth) before adding the gin.

Interesting... do you face south when you drink tequila?

 

Interesting... do you face south when you drink tequila?

Since the only time I drink tequila is when I am in Mexico I don't just face sound,I am south.

I return to Mexico end of this month for another week in heaven.