Mr. Churchill’s Birthday

Posted By SeanMike on December 1, 2007

I swung by

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‘s place for a cigar and drink tonight to celebrate Winston Churchill’s birthday.

Also because I had a present for him – I’ll wait for him to post the pictures of them.

But, to me, in terms of Churchill, I figured it called for gin.  We already had the plans for cigars…

I went with the classic martini.

Now, I know that Churchill was all about having so little vermouth that you just look at France when making it (thus making his martini a very, very dry martin – i.e. cold gin) but I’m not that way.  So, while over at el casa de

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I went for the 3 oz. of Plymouth gin and 1 oz. of Martini & Rossi dry vermouth – and a dash of olive brine from a bottle of Haddon House pitted Spanish olives.  I do like ‘em dirty.

For a cigar, I grabbed a La Gloria Cubana Serie R #5 – it’s close to Churchill in size, and I haven’t had a La Gloria Cubana Serie R in a while (mostly just having the regular La Glorias).

Wow.  I’d forgotten how much I like ‘em – that’s the reason why La Gloria Serie R cigars were always my “go to” cigar.

I burned mine down to my fingers.  Damn nice.

Got home and switched martinis – Bombay gin and Noilly Prat dry vermouth, a bit of brine from a bottle of Santa Barbara Olive Co. pimento stuffed olives.  Mmmmm.

Obviously by this point (6 oz. of gin, 2 oz. of vermouth) I’m feeling awesome.  But yeah – good night.

I can’t wait still for our trip to PX!

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Engineer by day, debutante by night...no, wait, that's not it. Freelance writer, aspiring mixologist, Harley rider, avid reader, video game reviewer, cat owner, dog lover, beer drinker, and even a Mason - I'm sure there are other things I could use to describe myself, but for now, I'll stick with: tired.

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