First of all my apologies. I haven't posted a lot. It is a bit tricky for the moment, as I am with my own mobile devices just via 3G online. The hotel doesn't have free wifi (I am just online with the company PC and that means no personal stuff...) and we are living in a completely new building- landbased telecommunication will (hopefully) set up in the next days. I have though already written several posts offline- some quite controversial and will post them soon... Back to the besuty drink. I have picked up this in one normal hypermarket. The brand is Thai Choice, a producer which usually offers all sorts off Asian ingredients from - from a like "alemongrass puree" to z like "zoya sauce". Sorry it is too late for doing better jokes ... Anyway - I chilled it nicely, popped it open (which was harder than expected) and tasted it. NOSE: Faint honey smell - with the slightest greenush vegetal hint. TONGUE: Oh wow, sweet. Very sweet. Simple syrup sweet! ...
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When I have seen this drink [and the plea to vote for it] on the Dubai Bartender Club facebook group, I directly answered quite opinionated. The recipe [at least in my universe] make little sense. Lots of sweet stuff, commercial stuff, with some artificial color and - who would have guessed - vodka. Not so good, I thought. But this made me look for the other drinks on the Monin promotion website drinksofthecentury.com . And what I have discovered is quite a shock for me. All drinks there are over sweet, over_fru-fru... and absurd! [Truth has to be told - all drinks except of an Amaretto-syrup flavored cappuccino - well done!] It seemed, that we are still deep in the 90's - and the cocktail-revolution never happened ["incidents" like that, let me believe in time-traveling - somebody knows Dale deGroff or did he had a deadly accident, before he became famous?]. Nobody seems to understand the product. Monin is scoring by even mentioning the brix degree on their bot...
It was a hectic day... on Monday 24th. And Ulric Nijs - sworn that he will never do a competition again. This is a pity, because except of a few hick ups it was a really good experience [at least from my side - I guess the participants are hating me know]. We held the competition in Rush bar - in my hotel - the Yas Viceroy Abu Dhabi. Truth has to be told - the recipes were everything but promising. But there were a few, which could convince [at least in one category]. Of roughly 20 drinks, there was one, which was really attractive [again, most competitors neglected the garnish- which is classically in a competition quite important]. There was another one, which really stood out and kinda impressed with a clear spirit driven character [funny thing was, that the drink had a hideous garnish - blue sugar rim and a sad maraschino cherry] - despite of its quite confused recipe of Scotch, Midori, amaretto, lemon juice [plus one more liqueur] it tasted like a Godfather [not...