Behold, the perfect summer cocktail
Thursday July 9, 2009
I was blessed to spend about three hours this evening drinking and talking with two good friends, Rawlins and Bill H., whose comments you see from time to time on this blog. Bill took us to a semi-out-of-the-way Dallas bar...
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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No.....not Schweppes. Something like with real sugar like Jones (there's one with tree in it's name too).
Sigh
I have been checking in to see your promised post on the Pope's big new Document. All that time hitting the Crunchy Con link and you were getting buzzed in a bar.
Well maybe tommorrow
jh man...have a little sympathy...anyone struggling through the Texas heat right now deserves a nice cool drink at the end of a long day. Besides, as a lapsed Catholic I can definitely express the opinion that a good drink in good company beats an encyclical any day of the week.
Patience...we'll get to it. Remember Rod sometimes operates on a distinctly Southern (that is to say highly civilized) schedule.
"I have been checking in to see your promised post on the Pope's big new Document. All that time hitting the Crunchy Con link and you were getting buzzed in a bar."
My guess: Rod will love the new encyclical. Rod really is, like the Pope, a conservative, German Christian democrat.
Saw this stuff in the liquor store the other day. Now that it's been expertly reviewed, I can pick up a bottle. Or 3.
My guess: Rod will love the new encyclical. Rod really is, like the Pope, a conservative, German Christian democrat.
That seems like a fair and accurate description to me.
And Geoff, thanks for your mercy on poor wilted me. After 3 pm on a Dallas July, when it comes to making sense of papal encyclicals, a fellow ain't worth shootin'. I had to imbibe a proper restorative. I think you understand. Heh.
Switch the club for tonic, and add a twist of lemon.
This stuff is dangerously delicious.
I'm with you on the mint, my aunt calls it the Alabama Mojito.
tonic for the heart. Thanks Rod and Rawlins. We're not exactly the Inklings, but I'd say good conversation over a glass is quite a blessed event.
Rod Dreher is probably an alcoholic.
Me, I drank Pyramid apricot ale (Washington state) which is like nectar from the gods of something somewhere. As for my 'crazy assed Texas stories, I guess that's a compliment. Surviving life is definitely a sport best suited to a mongoose and I feel sometimes that Texas has it's share of excentric and/or agressive cobras.
It also has no few wildly intelligent and sensitive new-age hybrid-mutant males. Like Bill who is the old south and the neo-future rolled into one. And Rod who managed to grow up in rural Louisiana while hating the outdoors more than a Brooklyn agoraphobic frau.
Ah to our trio 'tomando como loco' as they say (and do) in Latin worlds. At the Meridian, which was long ago in a life far away...the State Bar. PS Bob: Rod was doing research. We encouraged in-depth studies.
Me, I drank Pyramid apricot ale (Washington state) which is like nectar from the gods of something somewhere. As for my 'crazy assed Texas stories, I guess that's a compliment. Surviving life is definitely a sport best suited to a mongoose and I feel sometimes that Texas has it's share of excentric and/or agressive cobras.
It also has no few wildly intelligent and sensitive new-age hybrid-mutant males. Like Bill who is the old south and the neo-future rolled into one. And Rod who managed to grow up in rural Louisiana while hating the outdoors more than a Brooklyn agoraphobic frau.
Ah to our trio 'tomando como loco' as they say (and do) in Latin worlds. At the Meridian, which was long ago in a life far away...the State Bar. PS Bob: Rod was doing research. We encouraged in-depth studies.
Okay, went out and bought some... Rod's right, pretty darn good. There's also peach and raspberry varieties. A friend of mine also suggested trying it with lemonade (the Arnold Palmer). Dunno how the bar made their version of the Arnie, but I imagine fresh lemonade would work pretty darn well.
So, I went out to buy a bottle of this good stuff in Michigan. I asked the guy at the store if this stuff was pretty popular (as it was placed directly behind the cash register at eye level). He said it was, but that another sweet tea vodka, Sweet Carolina (I think), was even more popular. Anyone tried this alternative? Which is better - Sweet Carolina or Firefly?
It's funny that I read this post on Friday night and thought the drink sounded good. Saturday night, I went to a restaurant that had it on the menu. They said they had had Firefly for only a couple of weeks. Their drink was part Firefly sweet tea vodka, part lemonade. It had half a lemon in it. They called it the John Daly, of course. I'm going to buy a bottle this week.
Rod,
Hope you're well!!
This elixir is the tastiest and most dangerous spirit I've had in years. The sugar content makes it especially dangerous in the realm of hangover chemistry.
I first had it at Two Urban Licks in Atlanta in April, made with Peach Scnapps and homemeade sour mix. I felt like a sorority girl, but it was delicious.
Since, I've had it in Arnold Palmers, with soda, with mint, with pureed watermelon, with real Texas peaches. All good. It disappears in a crowd, so keep an eye on the bar when you're at a private function.
I've also, in the last 3 months, watched its price increase by 50% at Siegels from Arpil to July.
Many local bars carry it now, from Fearings, Bolsa & Eno's to Delaney's Irish Pub in McKinney.
I don't know how I'll like it come Winter, but for the summer (which lasts til October here) I'm all for it.
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