Dunk Cocktail

What a weird name for a cocktail. Well I guess all cocktails have weird names but why does this one jump out at me as being overly odd? Are they referring Basketball were you slam dunk if your have legs like an Acme product. Is it Dunk like dunking a tea bag, the thing is you don't dunk anything into this drink. Dunk in that they can't spell drunk and by the time you finish the drink you will be misspelling it too?
Could it have been some bloke like Austintatious Dunk who first thought of the drink and instead of giving it a name like "Shagging on a Tombstone" he decided to call it after himself. Maybe the maker thought that drinking this was like dunking you head in a bucket of iced water.
What ever the case you can be sure that if you drink it a few times then you will be dunking into dreamland.

60ml Gin
30ml Dry Vermouth
22ml Galliano
10ml Blue Curacao

As you can see, no mixers. Where are the things to soften this drink? none. They when on holidays. Home alone, but unlike that washed up child actor this drink does leave you with some talent. On first sip, your tongue rials back like a horse in a snake pit. You are beginning to wonder what the hell you have got yourself into. But then you can taste it. Hmm, its like a Martini but all this lolly flavour though it. Sure, it burns my taste buds off but I want to try more. This is getting better as I go or is it that my tongue is now a smouldering wreckage letting anything go past?
It is a nice drink but not definitely not something to have on a hot summers day to quench you thirst. Maybe a pre diner drink or an after dinner drink. I don't know. How do you decide were a drink goes in the Dinner spectrum? Have you had wine or other drinks that say this is good with fish marinated in essence of banana leaves and coated in a lite crumb made of the ear wax of a wilder beast?
Pre dinner Drinks, Post dinner drinks, I must say I have no real idea where to put this one but if you try it let me know.
Now to invent the Shagging on a Tombstone.

Alien Secretion

It has been more then a week since I posted last. What's going on? Well actually I have a friend Jen I will call her because that's her name,  who wanted to try my drinks but didn't have the ingredients to make them. So I got a list of what she had and started looking, about 2 hours ago. Yes I am lazy and forgetful. I have been drinking alot of another cocktail which I think I might review next. I downloaded this program that had thousands of cocktail recepies in it and found something that had some of what she owned. So here it is. Keep in mind that this program uses every mesurement avalible within the liquid range like 'part'. Mind boggling isn't it.

1 part Melon Liqueur
1 part Malibu rum
1 part Pineapple Juice

Now I made this and I have about 3 shots of each in the glass. It was strong. I think a bit to sweet. The melon takes over this drink but not before the Malibu drifts up your nose to let you know it's about. You can taste it a bit and the same with the Pineapple juice, if your looking for it you will find them. They help in toning the Melon though. I love the colour though, because the Pineapple makes the Melon Liqueur cloudy I guess you could imagine this of a bug or as the name sugests the liquid workings of an Extra Terrestrial.
Extra Terrestrial. ET. Alien Life Form, ALF. Little Green Men, LGM. Big Eyed Creatures from beyond our planet. BECFBOP. What would I ever do if I saw a Becfbop? Would I offer him a drink? "Hey Becfbop, want to have and Alien Secretion?" hmm that might not look pleasant.
Would I gun him down in a rain of bullets? Not likely unless it shot laser light and he flashed green and red. ( Look Rollie I almost got a plug in for you, for all other I love that confused look on you face). Would I jump on my phone and call the police? "officer, I have a Becfbop and I think he wants to take over the world!" "Now now, I think you have called the wrong place, Let me know where you are and I will call the Becfbop control agency to come around in their white van and a special anti-Becfbop suit that ties at the back."
More likely I would scream and run like a little girl. My logical brain would cease to funtion and instincts alone would kick in. I haven't trained my Instincts to be ready for things like this yet. Instincts is like the 12th man. He doesn't get to play unless someone else is hurt. Because of that he also doesn't train because in what possible situation would he ever be called ..... OH MY GOD IT"S AN BECFBOP!!

Midori Avalanche

Happy New Year everyone.
Here we are once again, ready for another exciting year of drinking. Well I guess I haven't been blogging for a year yet but oh well. Today is a hot day. My goodness, I have been out gardening in this 30+ degrees in the full sun. I decided that I need to have a cool drink and found this one. It looks awesome.

30ml Blue Curacao
put in the bottom of the glass
Blend the following with ice and pour over the top
30ml Midori
15ml Triple Sec
60ml Pineapple Juice

Since you don't mix this you get that awesome taste of the Midori with the hints of the other stuff. The Pineapple Juice sweetens it out a bit. It is nice and cold from the Ice, just what I needed from being in the hot sun. The thing is that even though this is most of the drink you eventually get past that to the pure Blue Curacao. With it's lolly sweetness it is almost a contrast to the refreshing taste of the top half. Not saying it's bad but not that freshness taste that you want to finish with on such a warm day.
New Year huh? I always love the proposition of a new year. The idea that errors of the past can be overcome by the change of a day. The idea that for the next 12 month live will take a turn for the better and the new goals will be benifitual for ever. I myself have thought about a change, one of the most classic resolutions that skip accross the minds of many people through out the world. The Idea that this new year will help in the loss of the winter storage, so to speak. I am not a huge man, but I am big. I think those BMIs would say I am bordering on the obese side of over wait.
My biggest problem is I love food. I am a sweet tooth. Plus I like to have a drink. Shocked aren't you?
So will this year provided me the will to cut down on the stuffing and increase on the bodily movements or will it be like any other year.
Only Time will tell. In the mean time, enjoy a drink and I will catch you next time.

Hot Eggnog

The second in my Christmas Holiday Drinks. This is the classic, the one when you suggest a Christmas Drink is at the top off the thought bubble. I am sure there are many different types of Eggnogs out there, some with grog, some without. I have two different types within my few books. This is the one I will share:

15mls Dark Rum
15mls Brandy
7mls Sugar syrup
1 egg
Hot Milk
Blend and top with hot milk.

First off I need to state that I drink soy milk. This isn't because I will implode if a dairy cow walks within ten metres of me. Quite the contrary. Milk chocolate I prefer over dark. But for some reason over 10 years ago me and my then girl friend (now misses) thought "hey lets give this non baby cow breast milk a go". We go hooked and now the taste of normal milk taste weird to me. I love to try, being the operative word, and gross people buy pointing out that milk is breast milk designed for baby bovine. I add a bunch of other argumentative stuff about our bodies aren't meant for this and ingesting cow dna that but no one seems to by it.
So I used soy in my drink. The egg is the one thing that defines this drink, hence the egg part in the word. But it doesn't come forth as a flavour as such but more like a silk blanket encasing the drink itself. It seems to line your mouth with a red carpet to allow the celebrities to pass then rolls itself up again in the end. But it leaves its lasting imprint in your mouth well after the drink is gone.
The other parts are your standard flavours, rum and brandy both have have their flavours, they wave at you from the carpet as the real crowed "milks" it's way pushing them forward. And that is the bulk of the drink. It is the majority of the drink and proves to be the most dominant. But if you like milk then this is all good.
Anyway, This is Christmas Eve night. The children are asleep finally after threatening them with calling Santa not to come visit. A game of cards has been played and as usual I am the victim of the God of Lucks back hand. This particular card game is one of the only things I can not win. No matter, with my luck in rolling d6's (sorry for the non nerd inclined, a normal die) I am happy to let her turn a blind eye to my card's of misfortunes.
To everyone who reads my blog, yes both of you. A very Merry Christmas. Do not drink to much but I won't hold it against you if you do.

Glühwein

The first of my Christmas specials. Glühwein. I had to copy/paste it because I have no idea on how to put the two dots over the U. Glühwein is more commonly knowns as, wait, that's not right. It's German so it should be more commonly known as Glühwein. In any case us in the English speaking world may know this as Mulled Wine.
One Bottle of Red Wine
Cinnamon stick
4 cloves
Two slices of Orange
Two slices of Lemon
2 tbps of Sugar

Heat in a pan without boiling until very hot.

One of the things about Christmas is that the triditions are all created in the northern hemisphere. Like Holloween (I will cover my grip about that if a few months) have a different season to create them. Can you imagine what Santa would look like if he first appeared in the Out Back. I have a Aussie Christmas book that would about sum him up. Sunnies, Tropical shirt, Corked hat, Thongs, sitting in a old ute pulled by Kangaroos.
I saw a Santa today in the shopping centre with the full suit on. Here is the poor fella sweating like a teenage boy in a women's dressing room with a fan blowing his beard backwards. I know Santa comes from the north pole which should rest my case more. What are the Poms like when they get a heat wave of 18 degrees. Good old Santa would think a heat wave is -5!
So too is this drink. It is served warm. It is very nice though. My misses got this case of wine. They aren't to bad but we definately had better. So I used one of them, a Shiraz. Well now I think I could drinking it like water. It is very nice. The smell of the cinnamon gets at you first. Then when you have a taste its the fruit that comes out. The sugar just makes it smooth. I always thought that is was spicy having never had it before but I would say the fruit is the most prominent part of the drink, besides the wine its self.
If your boss gives you a bottle wine for Chirstmas and you want to experiment give some *paste* Glühwein a go.

Rocket Fuel

My tongue is still riving. This is a a doozy. Growing up I heard about this drink, I thought of it as some type of Holy Grail, you know, that thing that seem so unobtainable that it was like a myth. This drink I imagine is quite varied to the different people who try to make it. I guess why I though it as the Grail because I always imagined it as a drink that constantly changes. Forever changing like my Apple Crumble recipe, I always have the same ingredients by the amounts change because I don't measure.
I was suprised to find it in my cocktail book. Easy pesy. Right there in black and white.
15ml Rum
15ml Dry Gin
15ml Vodka
60ml Lemonade
15ml Tequila
Build over Ice

This is a 50/50 mix. I have had a glass and I don't think I should drive anywhere. The Lemonade does help with the ease of getting this potent drink down, but it's like an afterthought. It's like the person at a party that isn't in there cutting a rug but putting the food on the table and cleaning up the used plates. The rest is defiantly the party goers. I think some of them a crashers too. Each of them fighting each other to show themselves off. "Hi there, I'm Tequila. Do ya wanna dance?" "Don't listen to that, I am the one you want to strut with. Call me Gin." "Get out of my way, this one is mine. I Rum, and your coming with me!"
Meanwhile Vodka stares at you with piercing eyes. Almost Daring you to look away. This drink tares at your soul forcing you to keep going because in the end your not going to remember it anyway.

Sitting on the beach drinkin' Rocket Fuel, Oh yeah.
Spent the all night breakin' all the rules, oh yeah.

Pop quiz, what song is this from and why preformed it.

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Blue Bayou

Blue Bayou is as it's name points too, is blue. The thing is its that really cool blue like you imagine a tropical island with a fresh water lagoon in the middle. Maybe phosphorescence glittering around making it glow a lovely colour. All you want to do is dive from the rocks need the waterfall and swim forever. Ahh ....... POP! oh there goes that dream bubble.



15ml Galliano
15ml Dry Vermoth
30ml Gin
15ml Blue curacao
Top with Lemonade

Shake over ice and pore.

This tastes really nice too. You have part of what makes a Martini in it plus Galliano for that vanilla goodness. After shaking and you pour it to the glass is has this awesome cloudy blue colour. Then it thins out once you start adding the lemonade. Ofcourse you taste alot of lemonade in this, I guess I could have eased back on it but oh well.

Every time I think of this drink I keep singing the song "Born on a Bayou" which in turn makes me think of the movie Water Boy. My m  m momma said that Alligator are ongry 'cause they have all them teeth and no tooth brush.
Silly movie and a little awesome I will admit. Now the song, I have the sound track to the movie and its the first track on the cd if I remember correctly. You know how you tend to hear the first few tracks of an album more then the later. My theory is that you put it on mainly from the start, pay attention for the first few songs, then either get distracted or have to turn it off for some reason or another. How often do you play a cd from the end to start. Never. Because you would have to program it in and that is a pain to worry about. So the first song must be Born on a Bayou because that is ingrained into my head. The beat and some of the lyrics and such.
The other thing this reminds me of is Blue Lagoon. The movie that made Brook Shields famous. She was something like 14 when she made that. Maybe over exaggerating which I tend to do, like a million times, but I was younger then her when she made this so thinking she looked good does that make it weird?
So, if we mix the song "Born on a Bayou" with "Blue Lagoon" do we get "Blue Bayou"? that is for you to judge.

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