Re-read that second one, specifically the first line ;-)
I'm infamous for my up drinks; I was whipping up Vespers, Delvians (UV Blue vodka, Absolut, and and "underfloat" of orangecello), and creamsicles (Stolichnaya Vanila with orangecello and a twist) this weekend.
Of course, only the cool kids got up glasses (since we'd only managed to liberate 4 from the casino bar); everybody else got crystal tumblers.
The key is to pour a single sized cocktail into the glass; since most bars are using double-size up glasses these days, it's easy to avoid slopping your drink.
Oh, and we usually travel with a pair of spun-steel up glasses in the luggage. One too many Imperial Coronations where the up drinks were served in tumblers/water glasses and got warm wayyyy too fast (that's the reason for the stem, after all -- so the chilled but ice-free drink won't be warmed by your hand wrapped around the bowl of the glass).
Plus it had the added bonus that no one could tell what was actually *in* my martini glass; a good part of the evening it would be just soda and lime.
We didn't pack them for this Vegas trip because we weren't throwing any parties. I won't make that mistake for Denver next month*. :-)
*We still aren't throwing any parties, but I'd rather have them with and not need them than the other way around.
I mis-parsed "hosting" as "Web hosting". I then tried to figure out whether you had, at one point, been one of the Web site administrators for something like AuntyMame.com in the past. Owie.
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-08 09:14 pm (UTC)I'm infamous for my up drinks; I was whipping up Vespers, Delvians (UV Blue vodka, Absolut, and and "underfloat" of orangecello), and creamsicles (Stolichnaya Vanila with orangecello and a twist) this weekend.
Of course, only the cool kids got up glasses (since we'd only managed to liberate 4 from the casino bar); everybody else got crystal tumblers.
The key is to pour a single sized cocktail into the glass; since most bars are using double-size up glasses these days, it's easy to avoid slopping your drink.
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Date: 2008-07-08 10:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 12:47 am (UTC)Plus it had the added bonus that no one could tell what was actually *in* my martini glass; a good part of the evening it would be just soda and lime.
We didn't pack them for this Vegas trip because we weren't throwing any parties. I won't make that mistake for Denver next month*. :-)
*We still aren't throwing any parties, but I'd rather have them with and not need them than the other way around.
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:12 pm (UTC)What about just plain old, high-quality martinis, without the pretension? Not "pretentious" martinis, but classic martinis?
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Date: 2008-07-08 09:14 pm (UTC)Call me a purist, but.....
Date: 2008-07-08 10:25 pm (UTC)Of a fine junmai ginjo
Martinis are vile!
Re: Call me a purist, but.....
Date: 2008-07-08 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Call me a purist, but.....
Date: 2008-07-08 10:51 pm (UTC)Re: Call me a purist, but.....
Date: 2008-07-08 11:37 pm (UTC)"junmai daiginjo-shu please!"
confounds the poet...
Re: Call me a purist, but.....
Date: 2008-07-09 12:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-07-09 10:30 am (UTC)