When was the last time you had a good martini?

[silenus]

@Gray_Ghost

Can you get them to go? LOL, but a lot of our area’s restaurants have been permitted to sell beer and wine to go along with their food orders. Don’t think it extends to spirits though, and not in your area anyway. Bummer.

I hope we will be able to go to restaurants again by June.

Several of our local Mexican places are offering curbside pickup with $5 Margarita Specials. It’s what’s going to get us through these troubling times.

[digs]

@Ukulele_Ike

digs @35: Cheese; sausage; beer; bizarre Old Fashioneds…sometimes I feel Wisconsin is the true heart of the Civilized World.

Don’t forget bratwurst! And we can make drinks with dark Door County* cherries. Those day-glo cherries are indeed a crime against nature and home bartenders.

*That little pinkie that sticks up into Lake Michigan… it’s our Maritime Province.

@silenus

Several of our local Mexican places are offering curbside pickup with $5 Margarita Specials. It’s what’s going to get us through these troubling times.

Oh, wait, right now I wish I were in SoCal. We do not have enough good Mexican joints, or seafood.

[Ukulele_Ike]

@digs

…or seafood.

A big platter of panfried lake perch on a Friday night almost makes up for that.

[Gray_Ghost]

@silenus

Several of our local Mexican places are offering curbside pickup with $5 Margarita Specials. It’s what’s going to get us through these troubling times.

I was going to say that’s far more civilized than what we have. Surely Texas hasn’t seen fit to allow spirits for takeout? But I see that Chuy’s—they of the shrine to Elvis Presley and the hubcaps on the ceiling—are offering margarita kits for pickup or curbside. Which, unlike those abominations that Taco Cabana is selling, actually involves tequila. Well done.

Not the same as their luscious adult smoothies from their margarita machine, but much, much better than nothing. I hope this option continues long after the virus is a sad, hated memory.

Thanks all, for the ingredients discussion. I look forward to trying many of these different vermouths and cocktails.

[Yorkshire_Pudding]

@bump

Carpano Antica is essentially the original sweet vermouth. It’s more intense than say… Martini and Rossi or other standard vermouths- more bitter, more aromatic, more body, etc…

I love the stuff- other vermouths seem kind of insipid by comparison. But others consider it too intense for cocktails, and best used for spritzers and other vermouth uses.

So, today, this happened. While I continued to dig the garden, my wife went to the supermarket. She’s NHS staff so has priority some mornings, but this was just daytime hours, so I offered to go…but I reckon she thought I’d be handier with a shovel and barrow than she would, so she bid me stay home.

I’d recently seen off a bottle of rye so put it on the list; most were sold out, but they had Jack Daniel’s Rye. It’s not all that and a bag of chips, but any old port in a storm. I’ve just been made redundant, thanks to my employer being unlikely to weather the current storm without monumental scything of staff, so she took it upon herself to get me a present: a bottle of Carpano Antica which she happened to find in the booze section.

She had absolutely no idea that I’d been having this conversation about vermouth, and had never heard of Carpano before she saw it today.

It just caught her eye.