Happy Friday and welcome back. Another grind of a week has me wiped towards the end here. Not to mention I played my first game of hockey since the end of April due to a combination of injury and travel. So I’m also sore on top of being exhausted this week. Also to top it off, Sharkbait 2.0, who has spent a grand total of 6 days in nursery school is sick, so I’ve got that going for me, which is….nice.
So, once again this post is less cocktail recipe than base spirit review. We were extremely fortunate to have Mom Sharkbait join us on a portion of our trip to Australia. When she left, she stopped over in Fiji for a few days on her way back. Since I’m always in pursuit of random liquors and spirits I can’t find at home, I had her see what she could get while she was there. What she grabbed me was a bottle of Blue Turtle Gin. Now, when I think Pacific Islands, I don’t exactly think of world class gin, but apparently the Fijians are out to prove themselves in the world of gin. Knowing that, I was excited to get my hands on a bottle and try some. Which recipe should I use? I’m thinking their version of a gin and tonic.
Turtle & Tonic
60ml Blue Turtle Gin
120ml tonic water
fresh citrus slice
Good clear ice
Add a generous amount of ice to your goblet. Pour Blue Turtle Gin over the ice. Add your tonic water of choice and give it a slight stir. Garnish with a full citrus slice (lime, moli kula, kumquat, or even a cucumber slice).
Neutral aroma on the drink itself. The lime slice does provide a nice citrus aroma which always pairs well with gin.
Oh man this is fantastic. It’s very smooth, and plays nicely with the tonic. The Blue Turtle isn’t as juniper forward as a regular London dry gin is. I do get some, but it’s most definitely a bit player. Of which I’m not surprised at all, given the spirit’s origin of a collection of islands in the middle of the Pacific. Instead, we get an abundance of citrus flavors. There is also a different level of bitter I can pick up towards the end that lasts a little bit after the sip. I believe that is the Kava showing up. A quick search of Kava tells me it’s a bitter plant native to Polynesia. So, well done on the Fijians using a native plans in their distilling.
I can already tell this gin will be used sparingly. Which I guess is a bit of a shame since it’s so good. However, I don’t want to run out of it any time soon. If I do I suppose that’ll give me a perfect excuse to go visit Oceania sooner rather than later.
(Banner image courtesy Matthew Tetrault Photography)
As to not shit up Sexy Friday, but … this just reinforces the point that engineers and engineering majors are easy as fuck to radicalize.
Go ahead, Donny Boy. Take these asshats out.
Occupy Democrats. Perfect name for — Namaste. I couldn’t give less of a fuck about this shit.
When we checked in on 9/11 we got room 911. I hope that means nothing.
At least you’ll Never Forget your room number.
“It’s room 5, right?” – Trent Green, two minutes later
“It’s Purple monkey dishwasher, dummy” — Tua’s Corpse
Really loved Spinal Tap 2. Lots of callbacks and new material.
“Turtle Blossom”
So, like a turtle dick drink?
I wonder if I can ask the state to order some of this, since the state owns all the liquor until it’s purchased by individuals here.
if we do get an incel maga groyper thingy gang war, the best name for it ive seen so far today is “night of the never wives”
Wow. The pivot by bad faith shitbags sure has been quick…
Going to be a lot of whiplash cases showing up at Geo Washington University Hospital.
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I treat right wingers like Walter treated nihilists. They’re full of shit. They don’t do shit. They aren’t shit.
Speaking of cocktails, this just happened at BWI Airport. This used to be called “Friendship Airport” in some sort of dirty fucking lie.
https://ibb.co/8Ln4kBzs
Yeah, BWI is nowhere near Friendship Heights!
Hope you enjoyed your wine shot.
Today I’m learning all about Groypers. I’m so glad I’m not a kid nowadays and best of luck to y’all with kids, don’t let them become terminally online and seriously panic if they want to be a meme for Halloween
the Overton window is done
Just read their Wikipedia page. Huh.
So, from all I’ve seen, Doc Z. was right with the “Groyper” theory.
& from what I can understand from the “Groyper War” section in wiki, a racist shithead decided another racist shithead wasn’t being enough of a shitheaded racist.
Is that what this was really all about?
My head hurts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groypers
The biggest confirmation is the way MAGA is responding, even total shitheel Nancy Mace has suddenly changed tune to calling the shooter a ‘lost boy’
Oh man. I’ve just been enjoying the ride. Now you’re telling me we’re actually GOING BACK TO ROCK EVEN MORE?!?!?!?!
Team Nothing Ever Happens is undefeated.
Yes. That’s all this is.
That’s one of the reasons I have enjoyed reading right-wing twitter. That, and the fact that they are occasionally correct in the same way leftists are on economics and foreign policy. But they fight like rabid beasts because they are rabid beasts. Leftists shit-talk each other plenty, but outside of people who think politics begins and ends with the parties, both sides are easy to rile up. Most of it is the narcissism of small differences, but sometimes it’s pretty big differences. And because right-wingers have less empathy (this is one of those “Did you know?” facts that actually holds up), they are more likely to resort to physical violence.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gcvbDra7KUg
As good as it is, no one would have remembered this film if it hadn’t been released four weeks after 9/11. And, of course …
Pitt and WVU are extending the Backyard Brawl to at least 2036, so WCS has a reason to make it another 11 years.
Okay, one last one…
All good. With all the jokes we’ve made this week, if the FBI hasn’t raided our homes yet, I think we’re in the clear.
FBI isn’t capable of catching us unless our fathers turn us in.
Kash “Bug Eye” Patel couldn’t catch a fucking cold.
Of course not, he’s been taking Ivermectin as a prophylactic since 2020. He’s also nanobot free!
“Prophylactic? Never heard of it.”
-Antonio Cromartie and Philip Rivers, in unison
Or they set us up and give us the bomb parts, but we have to be mentally slow teens. Looking at you, Robert Mueller.
Hooray for spending an indeterminate amount of time in a lobby. I wish I was working, but I can’t because of our security policies.
Decent people watching at least? Assuming you’re talking about a physical lobby in a real building that is. If it’s a meeting lobby on zoom then I got nothing
Not really. Everyone was just keeping to themselves. But the woman running the room is a fucking pro. Very helpful, very professional. Class act, all the way.
I’m a believer in South Pacific gins. They got tons of great botanicals to work with. I unfortunately have under half a bottle left of the tropical Wolf Lane gin I picked up in Cairns in February, but I do have a full bottle of the ungava gin from Litre with arctic botanicals to try! That might be tonight’s drink
I wonder if I can find finger limes around here anywhere?
We found a kaffir lime tree in our neighborhood!
dunno, sounds like terrorist fruit
Space Karen already dispatched a robotaxi to self-destruct and burn it down.
Or at least that’s what he’s telling investors as to why that Tesla crashed into a tree and burned alive everyone inside it.
Inside the taxi, not the tree. The squirrels got away just fine.
oh thank god
Yeah man, you don’t fuck with squirrels. You put one of theirs in the hospital, they put ten of yours in the morgue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojZVpb0cVkE
Love that bit. “Little boy, we’ll grant you wishes if you can hear us! We’ll make you fly and give you candy!!!”
Just like the IDF!
I had Four Pillars gin in Australia. That was good. I didn’t see any other Queensland guns. Wish I could have though.
Next time!
I was hoping they might ship internationally, but looks like no – https://wolflanedistillery.com.au/policies/shipping-policy
Maybe in an Asian supermarket.
I keep meaning to make an H-Mart run but haven’t gotten around to it
99 Ranch is also pretty good, I would expect you have an even bigger and more diverse selection of Asian markets than I do. A co-worker gave me the run down on the best Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, and pan-Asian stores in the city where I work and he lives.
Annoyingly, all the Russian/Eastern European markets are on the opposite side of the metro area.
I’ve heard good things about 99 Ranch, apparently they have some amazing prepared food.
I would love to find a place near me to get some decent pierogies but no luck so far. Although, looks like there might be a decent Eastern European market nearby, it has a generic name but internet says it’s Baltic/Slavic. Fingers crossed!
Sounds wonderful! I’ve been looking for a gin that is less… juniper-y than London Dry ones. Unfortunately, I don’t think I can swing a trip to Fiji to pick up some Blue Turtle.
So, anyone have any recommendations of domestically available gins that have less of a juniper bite?
Like, I’ve heard that Plymouth gin is less juniper forward, but I’ve also heard it’s somewhat sweet on the palate, which does not sound appealing.
The Plymouth gin I’ve had is navy strength, and I always thought it was the higher alcohol content that probably accounts for the impression of sweetness. I quite like it, and it’s definitely good in the traditional gin mixed drinks. It’s not a cloying type of sweet, just a light feeling on the tongue
Thanks so much, Dok!!
I don’t think it comes in an airplane bottle or pint bottle, so I was hesitant to buy a whole 750 ml of it. I’ll have to give it a shot, so to speak.
How is the Schweppes? I’ve gone over to using Fever Tree tonic. Their ad campaign kind of has it right — if your drink is more than half tonic water, then you should make it a good one!
Fever tree is definitely the best, but Schweppes is usually what we have on hand. It’s decent for what it is
I’m very pro fever tree. Their light tonic is good too (although I wish we used the UK term-slimline)
If I remember the commercials right, full of Schweppervescence.
https://twitter.com/Zack3O12/status/1781800342860054660
Right to jail
What the hell.