Die Caramello, Die!
Eh, it's still more fun than going to RnB nights
Not to be read from the German translation of “The Caramel Chap, The!”
As many of you are now aware, Miss Twist has left us here in Victoria and gone to Perth… I’m sure she’ll have fun at the goth club there, which I’m told is park bench with a strobing sodium arc light above it, and some dude in a trenchcoat with an iPod dock.
I kid, I kid! There’s a post about club Sin somewhere in the events section. I’m expecting a report anytime soon now.
So what’s this got to do with getting you drunk this weekend?
Well, we went on a long country drive through Victoria’s south coastal wine regions…On our way through, we found a rather unique place called Topez.
By unique, I mean it’s got no idea what the fuck it is, but that works out quite nicely for people that are just bumble-beeing around for the day. It’s an art gallery + garage sale + garden store + icecreamery + bottle shop.
You're not invited to the bee orgy... You ain't sexy enough for this queen!
The bottle shop part is the important part, because they make a lot of their own liqueurs there. I know a lot of you out there are probably thinking “fuck, not another set of poxy rubbish home made liqueur. I followed the recipe last time and it tasted like shit!” (to which I’d reply “you were meant to wait at least 4 weeks before trying them, you impatient git! Mine tastes like there’s a bee orgy in my mouth!!”), but worry not, because these ones were actually amazingly impressive. Not just because of the sheer variety of flavours available, and there are a lot more there than appear on the website, but because the bases they’re made with are of rather good quality.
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The one that was most impressive was, of course, the Whiskello, a delightful blend of unidentifiable whisky (blended scotch, I’m pretty sure) and caramel flavours. And it gave me an excellent idea to use as the base of a cocktail!
Glass: Martini
Ingredients:
- 30ml Chivas Regal
- 30ml Butterscotch Schnapps (for the love of the infernal, use a good one like De Kuyper)
- 15ml Vanilla Liqueur (I recommend Marie Brizzard)
- 15ml white Creme de Cacao
- 60ml cream
Method: Pour all ingredients into a shaker and go at it, hammer and tongs. Pour into the waiting glass.
Garnish: Chocolate flakes and the bouyant caramel syrup they sell at Gloria Jeans would work nicely. However, if you really want to go all out, I recommend slicing the head off a Caramello Koala and putting two toothpicks through it so it can balance evenly on the side of a glass, oozing his delicious innards over someone’s fingers.
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Tags: Whisky
February 6th, 2010 at 3:50 am
Bee orgy!? God you’re kinky sometimes Avi.
I like the idea of decapitating things for decoration.
May 28th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
[...] from Topez a few months back has really started to grow on me. Especially as I’m out of the Whiskello I’ve found I’ve started adding it to a lot of things that I normally would think twice [...]