How to drink spirits
Food / / December 19, 2019
Universal rules
The first rule of fire water: spirits do not drink liters (light also not be necessary). It can be long drink casually pull the whole evening through a straw, and with stacks of it will not work. Two or three glasses - and you have already selected dose.
The second rule - not to mix drinks. In strong alcohol a lot, add extra grams via the lungs - it is dangerous. You can not calculate the dose and go too far.
In order not to go through and do not spoil all need rituals. The situation, the choice of glass, special supplements and the right snack. This all helps to reveal (or hide) the beverage flavor and makes the meal a feast, not booze.
Absinthe
Absinthe undiluted - a dubious pleasure, though a drink. 30 ml in a glass, not more. But it is usually diluted with one of three ways:
- Pour into a glass of absinthe (all the same 30 milliliters). Put on a special spoon with holes in a piece of sugar. Spoon can replace the small dessert fork. Sugar grist that it flowed in the glass, in a proportion of three to one. Dilute absinthe sugar water slowly to a lump of sugar is completely melted.
- The same sugar is first soaked in absinthe and set fire on a spoon. While sweet lit it slightly corrected with a spoon or fork to quickly melt the sugar and into the glass stok to absinthe. Then absinthe (which also turns off sugar drops) should be put out - cover glass lid - and either drink the resulting beverage (Only not to burn the lips of the hot glass, cool the edges of a slice of orange or lemon) or add 100 milliliters of cold water.
- Make a simple sugar syrup and diluted absinthe them in the same proportions - one to three.
Calvados
If you do not add the Calvados in cocktails, it does not have to drink to dilute. Pour kal'vados room temperature in a glass-tulip and slowly drink, eating cheese, fruits (citrus not only) or chocolate.
You can drink at any time of the feast, when you need to stimulate your appetite, or a break between the change of dishes.
Gin
In a simple way - juniper vodka. The fortress of vodka is not very different, recognizable by pine aromas. Drink like vodka, you need cool - 4-6 degrees. Snack - than is necessary, it is best to citrus and salty.
If pure gin - it is too dilute its mineral water. Jin is good because it can be any proportion - dilute as you see fit, even a drop of water on the glass. A good option if you want to spend the New Year fresh and sober, but do not want to explain why not drink.
Tequila
Tequila is known for a special ritual with lemon and salt. On the back of his hand between the thumb and forefinger poured salt prepared lemon slice. First lick salt, drink tequila and then a snack her lemon.
In another embodiment, the salt substitute cinnamon and lemon - orange.
mezcal
Another representative of the good of Mexico. A few rules of drinking in a pure form:
- Not cool.
- Drink slowly and gradually.
- Caterpillar of the bottle (if there is) is not necessary.
Mezcal, like tequila, you can drink with lemon and salt. Sometimes salts are used instead of the mixture of spices, which is attached to the bottle.
If is important not taste, and breathtaking sensations, mezcal drink quickly and drink tomato juice with a pepper and other spices. But a hell of a way not for a long night: he quickly drunk.
Whiskey
Probably one of the most controversial drinks. Connoisseurs can not agree, how to drink: diluted or not, cool or warm, a variety of cocktails can be sent to, and what you need to sip without impurities.
Pick and choose what you like best:
- Whiskey as it is. To do this, take the elite class, that is, single-malt whiskey. Drink at a temperature of 18-20 degrees of the glasses with thin walls, to slightly warm drink in his hands, sips, holding alcohol under the tongue.
- Whiskey with ice. Drinking glasses of thick-walled and thick bottom. So drink whiskey from America.
- Whiskey and water. Clean water diluted with Scotch whiskey. Water quality pay special attention. Water is poured into a glass to 30%, depending on your tastes.
Snack whiskey not seem necessary, but nobody forbids to choose a snack to taste.
Cognac
Let's not go crazy and share cognac brandy or brandy, it is written on the label that it is cognac.
The rules are:
- Good brandy is not a snack and drink warm slowly, warming his hands, inhaling the aroma. A glass is filled by a quarter, and begin to drink when he ate.
- Bad cognac drink as you want, because no taste and flavor is not there. Snack lemon, when absolutely everything is bad, but it's the culture of drinking to do. Drink to get drunk - generally a bad idea.
rum
The main rule of the Roma - do not drink like a pirate from the movie, a bottle for the evening. The maximum dose - 100-150 milliliters, or in the morning waiting for you a hell of a hangover and deep remorse.
Net rum drink as cognac or whiskey after dinner, warming the glass in his hand. Drinking is accompanied by a cup of coffee or a good chocolate.
Sambuca
Strong drink with anise striking smell, which is fed with fire bars and tubes for special effects inhalation of vapors. Such a process is fast and very drunk. We do not recommend to arrange games at home with fire if you are not an experienced bartender.
In pure form sambuca cooled drink, is placed on the bottom of a glass coffee beans. In diluted form - with the mineral water in the ratio of one to one to two or three.
sake
Not that it's a strong drink as compared to others, but to deprive his attention, we could not.
The point appears sake, if the table seafood or Japanese cuisine and you have a ceramic jug and a small bowl. Then the drink is heated in a water bath to 15-30 degrees, pour and drink.
However, if there is a sake and dishes not, then it is cooled and poured into wine glasses.
In any case, the taste and smell of sake at a specific, unusual.
Vodka
Cold vodka drink quickly, gulp, small glasses. Be sure to have a snack, washing it down with something non-carbonated, so as not to irritate the stomach and accelerate intoxication. Snack, choose a sufficiently nourishing and glasses - small.
Chacha, arrack, brandy, grappa - is essentially variants of moonshine. Drink almost like vodka: little by little, in the form of chilled, in small portions and with plentiful snacks.
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