12 February 2008
I think a clarification is needed about the booze rules for saturday's party...
What we're not saying
Don't bring any booze! We have enough for all of you! Drink us out of house and home!
What we are saying
We've got quite a lot of leftover party booze, much of which may well have been tapped from satan's own golden steaming stream. Feel free to bring drinks if you want to drink them, but either drink them or take them away at the end of the night. Also, in the interests of a real "prohibition" theme, consider throwing some cheap vodka into a simple cocktail just to make it go away. Same goes for Tesco's value gin.
In other words, please don't add to our booze pile. If you do, drink an equal volume of something less good than that which you leave.
What do we have?
This isn't an exhaustive list, and I hope to tidy it up and refine it later... but we definately have:
A reasonable amount of Southern Comfort.
A reasonable amount paint thinner with "vodka" written on the bottle.
A small amount of gin that makes "bathtub gin" look classy.
A certain amount of "gulpin' whisky" (for want of a better term).
Several cream liqueurs of indeterminate age and consistency.
We have some unconfirmed reports of there being plenty of wine, too.
I don't know about anybody else, but I'll certainly be staying clear of the southern comfort.
In all seriousness, most of that lot's probably pretty foul on it's own... but probably fine in some form of authentic prohibition era cocktail, or more modern cocktails if (like me) you don't care about authenticity.
What we're not saying
Don't bring any booze! We have enough for all of you! Drink us out of house and home!
What we are saying
We've got quite a lot of leftover party booze, much of which may well have been tapped from satan's own golden steaming stream. Feel free to bring drinks if you want to drink them, but either drink them or take them away at the end of the night. Also, in the interests of a real "prohibition" theme, consider throwing some cheap vodka into a simple cocktail just to make it go away. Same goes for Tesco's value gin.
In other words, please don't add to our booze pile. If you do, drink an equal volume of something less good than that which you leave.
What do we have?
This isn't an exhaustive list, and I hope to tidy it up and refine it later... but we definately have:
A reasonable amount of Southern Comfort.
A reasonable amount paint thinner with "vodka" written on the bottle.
A small amount of gin that makes "bathtub gin" look classy.
A certain amount of "gulpin' whisky" (for want of a better term).
Several cream liqueurs of indeterminate age and consistency.
We have some unconfirmed reports of there being plenty of wine, too.
I don't know about anybody else, but I'll certainly be staying clear of the southern comfort.
In all seriousness, most of that lot's probably pretty foul on it's own... but probably fine in some form of authentic prohibition era cocktail, or more modern cocktails if (like me) you don't care about authenticity.