Post #116793 by pablus on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 7:16 AM

Thanks to Kava King, and his generous investment of a bottle of Sazeracs, we had a taste off of ALL (as far as we know) the falernums.

The first 4 judges did a full visual taste off. We knew what we were drinking. Then we started covering them for a blind test.

Basement Kahuna
Martiki
tikibars (J. Teitelbaum)
Rusty Key
me
Al K.
Wersmo Derinc
Humuhumu
Mano

The Falernums:

Fee Bros.
Sazeracs
John Taylor Velvet
Davinci

Here are the results:
7 out of 9 people preferred the John Taylors

I personally preferred the Sazeracs because it had much more citrus elements.

Mano. I think, like the Fee Bros. best.

The Davinci is so sweet, you'd have to use it in a punch or something.

John Taylors is well balanced enough to drink on the rocks.

Fee Bros is well balanced, too. A good little mixer.

After the taste test, which tikibars documented on his tricorder, I mixed up some test pilots using the Sazeracs and WOW, were they good. Usually the test pilots are a bit bitter. Not tonight, those hard citrus flavors really came on to round that drink out.

Mmmmm. I'm going to make a couple tonight before heading out to see the V-nauts and I Belli.

SO there you have it.

Mano made up a nice little drink with pineapple and falernum - wonder if he'll remember it?