Friday, February 27, 2009

Liquors--before I totally forget them.

I have to keep notes since I've been drinking many kinds of liquor these days (some for the first time, some for the second time or n-th time after a long hiatus) and I keep forgetting what I drank.

Here is a list:
Beer--Kadoya Pale Ale, Heineken, Duchesses de Bourgogne, New Castle, Rodenbach Classic, Saison Regal, Kyoto 1497,
Rhum--Tanduay (Original, or the ordinary one),
Whisky--Jameson 12 years old.

1) Kadoya was a nice beer. Fruity, bitter, sweet. (I forgot the degrees of each taste. I think it was less sweet than Yonayona.)
2) Duchesse de Bourgogne was a great beer. The culmination of Belgian beer. Rich! Before I didn't like this beer because I thought it was sour. Under the sourness, there are many different flavors. It is nicely complex. I easily spend almost an hour over a single glass.
3) New Castle was nice too. I liked it before too. Why did they stop importing this beer? I even want to taste it from a tap....
4) Rodenbach is a typical red beer but lacks the complexity of D. of Bourgogne.
5) Saison Regal was alright. It must be good if you drink it one summer afternoon.
6) Kyoto 1497. I do not know why I didn't appreciate it as I did last week before. Great creamy head with undertoned maltiness. Easy to drink down and down.
7) Heineken is hmmmm. Light. Minimum sweetness which one doesn't usually call sweet. Hoppy but not bitter.

8) Tanduay. Was it like this? Should be mixed with coke.

9) Jameson is rather good. I mean, it is delicious. It can be my first drink of a night before Scotch. I didn't like this before, but now I see it is whisky. Afterall, non-Scotch whisky may be able to be called Scotch....

I particularly remember Kadoya Pale Ale and Douchesse de Bourgogne. You can buy Duchesse in a bottle. Just try it. I always want to have cheese with it. Your mouth will be filled with the rich sour, sweet, bitter taste of the beer. I'll buy it for you if you pay me later. I'll probably give it to Gaelers before long--one or two bottles for tasting. If you are one of the Gaelers and want it, tell me, but you have to pay me. Warning: it is not beer you will immediately like if you don't know what red beer is.
Kadoya is hard to obtain. Maybe there is only one pub you can drink it in Kyoto--the place I have been to only once.... They have nice selection of local beer. It is not cheap but worth the price.

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