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What do the flamenco's or gitano's drink. I have seen a colourless spirit drunk by paco in a few recordings, what is it? What do you guys drink when experiencing the duende?
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RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Morante)
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ORIGINAL: Morante
Manzanilla
That's it. Most likely, and for sure the MOST flamenco drink. Fino looks kind of the same and tastes similar...very dry sherries both. When my store runs out of manzanilla I accept Fino as the closest substitute. A favorite brand is La Gitana.
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RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Ricardo)
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That's it. Most likely, and for sure the MOST flamenco drink. Fino looks kind of the same and tastes similar...very dry sherries both. When my store runs out of manzanilla I accept Fino as the closest substitute. A favorite brand is La Gitana.
Have to agree with Ricardo that manzanilla is the most flamenco drink, with fino (muy seco) sherry a close second. I personally prefer amontillado, however, which probably explains my mediocre guitar playing. (That's a better excuse than admitting to a lack of talent.)
For anyone in the Washington, DC area who is unaware of it, I think the finest place to buy really good wines, sherries, manzanilla, port, etc. is Calvert-Woodley on Connecticut Avenue. Great stock.
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RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Ricardo)
La Gitana is a reference manzanilla fina and I buy it in the super for 5 euros when I can´t get my favourites. I prefer manzanilla pasada, which has spent more time in the barrica: Barbiana, Goya, Aurora. Probably hard to find.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
La Gitana is great stuff but I'm also rather fond of a somewhat hard to find, in my neck of the woods at least, fino amontillado (made like a manzanilla pasada with a little more barrel age) from Bodegas Osborne called "Coquinero".
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
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Cruzcampo
I think I drank a thousand of those when I was over there. Its funny, most places I went you don't order the type of beer, you order the size of beer, cuz there's only one type.....and it's cruzcampo
I'm starting to look like the cruzcampo dude now..........
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RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Leñador)
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I think I drank a thousand of those when I was over there. Its funny, most places I went you don't order the type of beer, you order the size of beer, cuz there's only one type.....and it's cruzcampo
Haha, yep. And you could get the stuff out of vending machines on the street. I don't know if you can get it over here anywhere, but by Stephen's logic it would taste even worse than it does over there
Cruzcampo is rubbish: almost any other is better. I have Alhambra in casa. Guinness in lata is good, but you have to invert it completely for a good head. Better than most Spanish draught, though.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
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by Stephen's logic it would taste even worse than it does over there
I did get it once over here, I just happened to see it at a specialty shop and bought it for kicks. It was indeed worse, I think light or heat damaged. I can't tell you how happy I was to find a place that served guiness in Sevilla, although the guiness in spain is not nearly as flavorful as the guiness in LA it was still a big step up.
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Gambrinus.
Too bad I already picked a forum name..............
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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y Stephen's logic it would taste even worse than it does over there
Anzonini the fiestero said that speaking of manzanilla. He insisted once you move manzanilla away from where it was made it goes South. One of those folklorically stubborn things locals say with some ancient sliver of truth in it perhaps? He used to live for quite some time in Berkeley CA. However I did not know him, much to my loss. He was friends with the generation the precedes me. Everyone here has an Anzonini story.
In fact a friend of mine who knew him very well made a tape of him speaking and holding forth while drinking. He could and would speak in compas punctuating his thoughts with a pound of the fist on the counter top, in compas. And all his gestures while he cooked were based in compas. That is flamenco.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
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ORIGINAL: Aretium
What do the flamenco's or gitano's drink.
OK, so I'm slightly going off the OP's topic but still on the subject of the thread, heading up north to Navarra and Pais Vasco where Kalimotxo is drunk by the pint. Red wine mixed half and half with Coca Cola. Not refreshing, but an interesting taste.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
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Red wine mixed half and half with Coca Cola. Not refreshing, but an interesting taste.
Purdy gross, when I was in highschool we used to play this drinking game with cards and there was a big cup in the middle that everybody slowly filled with WHATEVER they were drinking as things in the game happened. The loser at the very end had to drink the cup. I had to drink one that was Baily's, white wine, beer, wine cooler and margarita, it was aweful.........
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Leñador)
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Purdy gross, when I was in highschool we used to play this drinking game with cards and there was a big cup in the middle that everybody slowly filled with WHATEVER they were drinking as things in the game happened. The loser at the very end had to drink the cup. I had to drink one that was Baily's, white wine, beer, wine cooler and margarita, it was aweful.........
Ha ha that's nothing.
When I was in first year of college I worked at the Cask & Cleaver in San Bernardino as a line cook. The collective staff would find things to bet on and everyone placed wagers, usually sports games.
The winner got the money and the loser had to drink a Bar Mat Shooter. A bar mat is the rubber strip you see at the bartenders inside edge of the bar that they put glasses on when making drinks. At the end of the night the bartender would drain the crusty soggy alcohol spooge off the bar mat into a rocks glass and that is a bar mat shooter.
Bottoms up loser! That place was cruel to work at, San bernardino is a twisted place.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
Haha, that's aweful, I've seen some naaaasty sticky barmats in my day.
San Bernadino is where the three headed dog that guards the gates to Hades lives......it was that or the one toothed tweaker that sells tape decks....prolly both.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Leñador)
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San Bernadino is where the three headed dog that guards the gates to Hades lives......it was that or the one toothed tweaker that sells tape decks....prolly both.
It was a garden of hills, orange groves an alluvial plane with old farms here or there when we grew up, it's been ravaged. Some parts look like a war zone now. Downtown there was library designed by the architect Michael Graves. It had a graceful old section of town, tree lined alamedas. It was a tidy bright town. The airforce base closed and then the steel mill closed in Fontana and then it collapsed. You probably know the story. The place had quite a history, maybe someday it will reinvent itself.
RE: Spanish alcoholic beverages (in reply to Aretium)
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It was a garden of hills, orange groves an alluvial plane with old farms here or there when we grew up, it's been ravaged. Some parts look like a war zone now. Downtown there was library designed by the architect Michael Graves. It had a graceful old section of town, tree lined alamedas. It was a tidy bright town. The airforce base closed and then the steel mill closed in Fontana and then it collapsed. You probably know the story. The place had quite a history, maybe someday it will reinvent itself.
Being as huge as it is I have seen some really beautiful places in San Bernadino county. But yeah, the bad is pretty bad. The recession hasn't helped any.
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