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So-how do you take yours?-just trying a drop of the bottle I bought for the FIL for X.mas with coke & lime wedge. Very nice but any suggestions? Quite nice neat too! (will be buying another bottle at this rate!)
I have it with diet coke and ice.
Ginger beer + ice.
Old Jamacan ginger beer, a good squeeze of lime, a wedge of a lime and ice. Perfect 🙂
As above, ginger beer plus ice.
It's also good with apple cider and ice...
Like the ginger beer idea, will give this a go.
Sounds good-will try the ginger beer & ice if I get offered another!
Cider sounds bizarre but may try it too.
It works well with ginger ale, I thought. Something lighter than ginger beer, like Canada Dry or something.
TBH though, it always struck me as a bit pointless paying a premium for a 'good' spirit and then mixing it with something heavily flavoured. I'm quite partial to bourbon and coke for instance, but I'll buy supermarket own-brand cooking bourbon for mixing and keep the good stuff to drink neat or with ice.
I use it to flambé my caramelised bananas. Very nice with a wee dod of good vanilla ice cream.
dark n stormy Kraken will do ya
TBH though, it always struck me as a bit pointless paying a premium for a 'good' spirit and then mixing it with something heavily flavoured.
I can see your thinking and I tried this with the more bland ginger ales...and it was a waste of nice rum.
But yes I agree if you want to enjoy the spirit itself then drink it neat but if it's more of a combination drink you want then don't sacrifice any aspect. I save my nice Tequila for having straight up. I can't drink most spirits neat (got tricked into downing a pint of whisky once which really messed me up) so I prefer to make up a nice drink. Only exception is Tequila which I can happily knock back or sip neat all day long but that was after a trip to Mexico 🙂
Sure. It's always worth trying.
What works for me might not work for you. Tastes differ. Tequila's one of the few spirits I really struggle to deal with neat; I have to be in the right frame of mind and constitution, or it'll come straight back up again. I only ever really use it as an ingredient, say when making margaritas. That said, I've never tried any of the high-end ones, which I guess bear as much resemblance to Cuervo as an 18yo single malt does to Bells.
The other thing I can't cope with is Malibu. Nasty, nasty stuff.