Friday Black Russians.
It was a very busy week, and I’m glad it’s over. I badly needed a cocktail when I arrived home, but what to drink? I was out of chocolate vodka, out of mango vodka and out of peach vodka (Stoli – very good). I had plenty of regular vodka, but it was not in the freezer, and the thought of straight vodka, vodka with fruit juice or even vodka with seltzer just wasn’t moving me.
Brown whiskey? I have an ample supply of that, but it seemed too warm for bourbon, and scotch hasn’t been my drink of choice for quite some time. Hell, I needed a garden-watering drink. I assume everyone waters the garden while drinking a cocktail. No? What is wrong with you? It’s most civilized.
I started pushing bottles in the liquor closet around until I spotted a bottle of Kahlua. Oh, yes! Black Russians. Absolutely.
I grabbed an On-the-Rocks glass (a nice size – not one of those bullshit glasses you get in a cheap saloon when you order something “On the Rocksâ€.) and filled it with, yes, CLEAR ice. Dribbled Ketel One Vodka over the ice until the glass was 2/3 full. Then, I added the Kahlua until the drink was just the right color. (Free pour and eyeball, Peeps. Measuring is for amateurs.). The appearance of the drink should fall somewhere on the spectrum between slightly watery Coke (vodka heavy) to iced coffee (Kahlua heavy). I opted for something in between.
I washed a couple of those down (one while watering Mr. Garden) and had another while da Boigers were grillin’. Sah-WEET!
The bad news is that I don’t feel much like blogging.
The good news is that I don’t feel much like blogging.
I think that I shall read a while, watch some tube and be most grateful that it’s Friday.
Update: I thought I had posted this at about 9 p.m. Obviously, I clicked the wrong button. Good thing I wasn’t doing surgery or packing parachutes. Damned Black Russians!
Dude, did I ever tell you about my favorite drink, “The Nutty Irishman?” Authentically made for me by a boxer/bartender from Dublin named Dermot…the real deal, bro. Same kind of rocks glass, clear ice (duh…who the f**k like cloudy ice?!), 1/3 Bailey’s, 2/3 Frangelico. You need about 20 of them to get any kind of a buzz, but they kick serious heiney in the taste yummy department.
Comment by Erica — June 16, 2007 @ 7:05 am
Do we want to know which button you did push?… heh.
Comment by Jean — June 16, 2007 @ 11:30 am
Too frufru for me. I’ll have to pass.
Comment by Dick — June 16, 2007 @ 1:39 pm
Thanks so much for all of your bar tending tips. Clear ice has to be one of the tip-tops so far. Most of us are familiar with better brands of spirits, but there is much to be gleaned regarding the mixing of such here at PRS! 😉
Comment by Joyce — June 16, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
Never had a black russian, only white.
Is it true what they say 😉
Comment by Hammer — June 16, 2007 @ 5:07 pm
Did you have that Yukon Jack look?
Comment by Catfish — June 17, 2007 @ 1:08 am
“Free pour and eyeball, Peeps. Measuring is for amateurs.”
You mean they make measuring devices for liquor now?
When did THAT happen?
Comment by Harvey — June 18, 2007 @ 1:56 am
curiously, while you were imbibing that, I was sucking down kahlua and cream. I’m inexplicably out of vodka.
Comment by wRitErsbLock — June 21, 2007 @ 11:01 am