Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

Quit drinking when you were 13? Is this a typo?

fouw wrote:

Edosan wrote:

Favorite Scotch: Vanilla Mint Listerine®

Please Scotch whisky!

Sir, you are obviously unfamiliar with the true Scotches....

Name: Kiku Day

Location: Part time in Nørre Snede, Denmark; and part time in London, UK

Favorite Scotch: Am I to be short here?

My absolute all time favourite: Croyden Gear, Lowlands
My favourite when it should burn all the way down: Ardbeg 10 yrs, Islay
My favourite on a quiet night: Caol Ila 12 yrs, cask strength, Islay
My favourite when I want to feel cool: Speyside 1972 distilled at Glenlivet, cask strength
My favourite airport best offer at the moment: MacAllan 10 yrs, cask strength
My favourite surprise: Highland Park 12 yrs, cask strength (the last two are SO different when they are   cask strength)

Shakuhachi affiliation:
Zensabo, student of Okuda Atsuya and a stubborn jinashi player
Media and Communication Officer for the European Shakuhachi Society, ESS.

Last edited by Kiku Day (2008-06-01 13:57:17)

Tairaku wrote:

Quit drinking when you were 13? Is this a typo?

Uhh... no

Zak -- jinashi size queen

cool pic!!!

Okay Tairaku,
After your edifying words about Bombay Saphire, I gave it a try in way of a martini.  I was pretty much sold right away, but thought I should give it a few more tries before I committed or was committed.  But along the way, actually the day before yesterday, I got a little experimental and developed a martini that I call Fuji Sunset.  It's comprised of shochu (the endemic white lightning of Kyushu, Japan)  and vermouth with an ume boshi in it.  I used the local shochu of Kumamoto (shiro).  Now, it's a different kettle of fish than BS, but it's no bull.

Last edited by Jeff Cairns (2008-06-02 08:21:53)

Seth wrote:

In the spirit of Jeff's post above I am ashamed to admit that I have never had a Bombay Sapphire anything

Me neither, I always go for Tangueray. And the only scotch I've heard of but never tried is Dewar's. I'm obviously not sophisticated enough for this club. Currently, and only at home, I've been enjoying coconut flavored rum in vanilla flavored soy milk. I'd ask at bars, but I don't think they'd have the soy milk. 

Seth wrote:

I happen to be staying at a very trendy but fairly lousy hotel right now in Bangalore, India and I will order my first Bombay Sapphire this evening via room service.

I'm envious.   

Seth wrote:

Any advice on how I should instruct the bar staff to prepare this drink?  How is it best taken?

If you don't know how to order martinis (I don't) or you have an inept bartender, or both, any kind of gin mixed with tonic water works fine.

All this talk of Bombay is reminding me of the song "Secret Agent Man". I've got to go try it on shakuhachi now.

Ah!  Thanks Thomas. 

Though I suspect other members of SWABS may have disenting opinions. (Or let's just say I would be shocked otherwise )

Radi0Gnome:  Don't envy me.  If you knew what I was doing here you would primarily feel pity.

Later this evening, in honor of SWABS, I will have my first sip of a Bombay Sapphire martini, quickly followed by ten minutes of long otsu RO.

Scotch is the only alcohol that makes me pass out in brief or moderation. I supplied some Bombay Sapphire over the weekend for a party, I quite fancied it, better than Beefeater. I'm not well versed in mixed drinks. It's now at home, I haven't got any good mixes.

There's a jug of milk in the fridge and i've been eyeing a bottle of pickle brine... I bring the term "How bad could it possibly be?" to the table quite often.

Is a home brew eligible ?
Because I am still making my way through a distillation of several buckets of fermented sauterne grapes, grass clippings and a handful of spiders and aphids.
It doesn't freeze, is excellent for cleaning old LP's, my wife keeps her denture in it overnight and I keep a supply in a bottle of Bowmore Islay becide my computer.....to swab my keyboard after heated use.
It's indulgence can make a jiari sound dlike a jinashi and vice-versa.
It is a great mixer, half a cupful into my lawnmower tank will push the revs up another 500 clicks.

K.

Seth wrote:

I happen to be staying at a very trendy but fairly lousy hotel right now in Bangalore, India and I will order my first Bombay Sapphire this evening via room service.

I'm just down the road in Colombo at the moment, why don't we hook up?

Now that's an offer that even a confirmed abstainer would find very difficult to turn down.  The offer would certainly be welcome in Kumamoto Kiku.