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Favorite Tequila
Non-Beer Discussion by MATTFUNGUS
What is your favorite tequila and why? Casa Curiel - Sweet, needs know lime, I know one of the brothers who owns it. The bottle has a pouring spout that seems to stop right at one shot. I drink this in a small brandy snifter, instead of shot glass. it is so good I just like to savor the flavor.[:D] Centennario - harder to find and has another name in the US. Can't remember what it is. Only like the Oro as the plata has a bite. Twice the price of Casa Curiel, but then again I don't know the owner. I also like the woman playing the trumpet. Unfortunately the last time I had this one it was in a plastic bottle, not glass. [:(] In college I liked two fingers and would drink tequila and go dancing in juarez. Now, none of those are a safe option [:I]
12 years ago
EAGLEFAN538
69535
Meh. Have never loved it, from the least to the better ones. Only so much in the liver budget. Rarely will I indulge. Don't even dig Margaritas.
Today I went and did what I've intended for over two years...bought a 375 ml ($16.99 locally) of Hornito's Plata (Blanco). It's the best and most expensive tequila I've drank in memory...probably the shots I did in the '70's were mixtos. [:p] This is smooth. The agave aroma and flavor are THERE. Notes of vinegar and cider, too. Coincidentally, the Mountain Brew beers I recently tried also had a cider flavor note. I guess I'm on a binge of sorts...not a drunken binge, but a sampling binge...of alcohol beverages heretofore untried? [:)] btw: My tequila tastings of recent years were Sauza Blue Silver, Sauza Blue Reposado, Pueblo Viejo Blanco, Milagro Silver, and Cabo Wabo Reposado (which was on sale). My last purchase of tequila before today was in March 2012.
BLUESANDBARBQ
74923
23 years now. I still miss SRV greatly. He started it all for me, my Blues Epiphany. There will be several pint toasts raised to him today. Good Bluesin' to y'all. I know what I'm listening to today... [img]https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/995175_10201712518511978_178170374_n.jpg[/img] SRV @ University of Tennessee Alumni Gym, Feb. 14, 1987. My pic.
EAGLEFAN538
69535
A talent indeed, even if not fully into Blues overall. And, Clash, yes, the taping off the radio days.... CLASSIC! Somewhat hillarious in hindsight now with mp3 rips pretty ubiquitous - and not intruded upon by commercials on either end of the file! Did I mention other differences in quality? The times they are a changin'! Oh, no, that's Dylan, back to SRV....
STOUTLOVER72
46900
Robert Cray was the first to open the blues door for me, but SRV was the one who opened my eyes and my heart to the music. For me, he is the high watermark for blues passion, and if he were alive he'd probably say bullshit, for me...he is and always will be the man.
FRETWALKER
4773
I'm SO glad I got to see SRV live, just in time. June 24, 1990, Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati. I always thought they had it backwards, should have been Joe Cocker opening for SRV!
FRETWALKER
4773
Clash, I would urge you to archive that kind of stuff in a more durable medium while you can; cassettes don't last forever! Some of the things I've lost on deteriorated cassettes: Waite Hoyt's final play-by-play Reds radio broadcast, LBJ's speech declining to run for a 2nd term, Nixon's resignation speech, among others!
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I think I still have the cassette tape where I recorded this news breaking on the radio, yeah back in the days I recorded songs off the radio.
EAGLEFAN538
69535
I didn't "toast" to him, but I did invest this week and am exploring some of his non-mainstream work. I really don't know his stuff well.