Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
I lived in Italy for 6 months as a student and the main thing I learned from that experience was that things always get interesting when the grappa comes out
Join me in the spirit realm.
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I have tried it a few times and the only thing I can say in it’s favour is that you know it isn’t doing you any good as you drink it.
carlos21
KING OF REP
Yo Billy how are you doing today.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Good thanks mate. How are you doing? Watching the game?
carlos21
KING OF REP
Nope mate I am good today.
"She knocked the constable's helmet an illegal distance " lolBeware of Chelsea coffee !
The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
Does anyone else look at their bottles of spirits and think 'crikey I haven't drunk that much surely?'
toffee82
Player Valuation: £25m
Yup.
I hate finishing a bottle too. I've got far too many with about a double measure left that I can't bring myself to drink.
Got a bit of a billy bonus last pay check so went a little nuts at the Whiskey Exchange
Couple of rums, one from Antigua, one from Trinidad, a nice sounding sipping tequila, and some weird tea gin for the lady. Will update as they are sampled.
Couple of rums, one from Antigua, one from Trinidad, a nice sounding sipping tequila, and some weird tea gin for the lady. Will update as they are sampled.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
I'm mostly a beer drinker but thinking I need a go-to spirit and I think it's gonna be dark rum for me. Would you be able to recommend one for a beginner? You've posted a few good ones in here, would they be wasted on me?
Never used to like Laphroaig. Now that I've grown up I love it.
Never used to like Marmite. Now that I've grown up I still don't.
This doesn't mean that I'm suggesting you have not grown up.
Well the good thing about rum is, even if you pick one up you're not keen on you can lash ginger beer and a wedge of lime in it and it's not a total loss!
Rum tends not to be as wallet busting as scotch, you can get really fine examples for £30-40. It depends a bit on what your local stores carry in Germany. Kirk & Sweeney goes for about £30 in supermarkets here, that's excellent. El Dorado is pretty widely available, that's really good. Plantation's range are good but the taste profile varies a lot depending on where they have got it from. Black Barrel are good as well.
Be careful with spiced rums, some are fine but a lot are loaded with syrup, and basically a liqueur. That's ok if that's what you're after, but not very representative of good rum, anything with an ABV below 40% is likely to fall into that category.
My advice would be to try a half dozen different styles if and when you're out and see what you're into.
If you don't mind paying for postage from somewhere like The Whiskey Exchange or Master Of Malt (or a continental equivalent), you can't go wrong with Diplomatico Exclusiva:
Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva Rum : The Whisky Exchange
A fabulous Venezuelan dark golden rum, distilled from molasses in a copper pot still before it's aged for up to 12 years. Rich, sweet and fruity, just how we like 'em. Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva...
It's a bit pricey like (£40), but it's just delicious, absolute nectar.
Damn this is fine, smells like fresh fudge in the glass, buttery vanilla flavour. To be sipped not slammed.
Just got a bottle of Mount Gay Black Barrel Rum. Good stuff
Big fan of that grog me.