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all the usual quick to serve dips, cold cuts and possibly specially baked treats. However, the real treat before or after sitting at the table, or for surprise guests is always from the bar.
Most homes in North America have the usual offerings of red and white wine bottles, a Merlot, Pinot Noir, perhaps a Gewurztraminer.
The hard liquor selection is where most guests are curious about as the stock determines the variety and latitude of mixers, from casual Sex on the Beach to serious black tie affairs with a dry Martini.
The choices in whiskey, scotch, vodka, bourbon, rum and cream liqueurs are bewildering and these are the base ingredients in a skilled bartender’s cabinet that are used with additional mixers to create a drink to suit any imaginable mood or taste.
Some of my colleagues always enjoyed a good cream liqueur after work, be it neat, with coffee, in a special mix: A Blind Russian, a Kinky Orgasm, an Ice Cream Hogarth - all of this without any witchcraft nor a magic wand of course.
My friend and I went shopping
through the isles for something a little more exotic than your run-of the mill-staid cream liqueur.
Having perused several choices we contacted the Beam group, purveyor of a dazzling variety of spirits including notably rum-based
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