Enjoying a Caribbean Sunset tonight.

[Aristus]

Not a real one, unfortunately. I’d love to be in The Bahamas right now. Or at least anywhere outside of this fractured country.

Oddly, a Caribbean Sunset includes no rum; it’s a gin cocktail. Gin, créme de banane, blue curaçao, a dash of grenadine, and a marischino cherry..

Yummy!

[TexasTowelie]

1. Sounds interesting, but I haven't drank gin in over 25 years.

My guess is that créme de banane is the flavor that permeates the cocktail and that the cocktail has a blue color. Are you drinking this straight or on the rocks?

[Aristus]

4. On the rocks.

It’s delicious. And just as you say, it’s a deep blue, and tastes of banana.



Haven’t talked to you in a while.

[TexasTowelie]

14. My experience in organic chemistry synthesizing banana oil

finally has some practical relevance! I only had to wait 40 years for it to happen.

I've mostly been working with my PCP to get my Lantus levels somewhat balanced and try to avoid using Humalog. Things are a bit complicated since my mealtimes and appetite vary throughout the day. I'm also supposed to visit with my cardiologist next week, but I didn't get my labs done in time and my cardiologist has just retired so I'm going to postpone that appointment.

Finally, I'm going to be moving to a new apartment by the end of the month. I've been bumping myself up/down a flight of stairs carrying a wheelchair for the past four years so I'll be glad to not do that anymore. That was a contributing factor when I had the abscess on the butt earlier this year. Talk about a literal PITA.

[Aristus]

16. Sounds like a rough month in the country.

[Walleye]

7. I used to have an editor along time ago, he would say "you got really hate yourself to drink gin"

[Aristus]

9. He didn't finish the sentence.

“…to drink gin neat.”

Gin is a good mixer. I love a great Sapphire Martini and a gin and tonic. But gin neat is an exercise in palatinal torture.

[lapfog_1]

2. Never had a Caribbean Sunset, or rather I have enjoyed many when I lived there

but once I tried "Sex on the Beach"... it was ok... but I still got sand in my crack.

[Aristus]

5. Can't say I ever had the pleasure.

It’s sounds highly overrated.

OTOH, sex under the Konrad Adenauer Bridge over the Main river at night in the winter is not to be believed until it has been experienced.

[ShazzieB]

15. HAHAHA!

[debm55]

3. tThat sounds great. I love the Bahamas. The water, the people, the food. Because of the meds I take , That was the last

last time I drank . But I do read your drinking post just to remember. HAHAH

[Aristus]

6. My favorite Caribbean getaway (so far) is The Cayman Islands.

I feel guilty going there since it is a notorious corporate tax haven. But it’s quiet, and there’s so little to do there that one feels no guilt about doing nothing all day.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Here's a Caribbean sunset

to go with your cocktail. Took it on Bonaire in December 2019.

[Aristus]

10. Oh how lovely! Thank you!

What a beautiful image. Thank you for sharing this.

[niyad]

11. Definitely sounds yummy.

[Aristus]

12. It was!

Now having some Crown Royal over chilled whiskey stones. 🥃

[niyad]

13. One of my favourite galleries carries whiskey stones. A much nicer version

of permanent ice cubes (of which I had a set of pink elephants).

Speaking of the gin in your original cocktail:.. .have you tried Brad Pitt's The Gardener" gin?

[Aristus]

17. No, I haven't.

My current bottle is Ryan Reynolds’ Aviator Gin. Pretty smooth for a gin.

[mnhtnbb]

18. Speaking of celebrity spirits

I have to recommend the multi award winning The Sassenach Wild Scottish Gin, created by Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser of Outlander). The botanicals in it were inspired by the Galloway region of Scotland where he grew up. He also has a multi award winning blended whisky and a tequila. If you follow him on Instagram, he often puts up a reel as bartender Sam, mixing cocktails using The Sassenach spirits. His spirits aren't in my local ABC stores in NC, so I buy them online, but they are available in some of the states. He's done bottle signings in NY, FL, CA...ok, I confess, I'm a huge fan of Outlander, including the books by Diana Gabaldon upon which the STARZ series is based.

[Marthe48]

19. Question:

Are you making your cocktails by the gallon?

Because I think I'd need more than one!

[Aristus]

20. I would if all my Lounge friends were here to join me.

Since it’s just me, I restrict myself to just a few drinks.