By
George Brozowski
Ho,ho,ho,
NO, NO, NO! Are you suffering from Christmas creep
as badly as I am? Just exactly what in the world is going
on with the holidays? It used to be that the holidays started
the day after Thanksgiving and ended on January 2nd with fireworks
and hangovers.
That's
precisely the way God intended for it to go down. Then the
creep started with the holidays starting just before Thanksgiving,
and then it got creepier with the holidays starting with Halloween,
and then the Halloween holiday started October 1st and now,
after a whole lot of creeping, the holidays actually begin
on the first day of school in September; that's almost 4 straight
months of the holidays.
Now,
don't get me wrong. I like to party just as much as the next
guy, but in the old days that usually meant several days of
partying, not several months! I'll bet we can blame all those
heartless hedonists and rabid retailers out there for perpetrating
this endless partying on us just to satisfy their own ends.
The hedonists, I can understand since they, by their very
nature, are pure party people but those greedy bastard retailers
are just in it for the money, not the good times or even for
religious reasons since their God is the almighty dollar.
I
propose that we join with the hedonists and just party, party
until we drop while not spending a dime in a retail store
until February; that'll teach them for screwing around with
our holidays!
On
the other hand, YO HO HO is the beginning of a pirate ditty
that goes on to conclude ...and a bottle of rum. And as everyone
knows pirate partying is not relegated to any one holiday
or even any one season, these guys were the original hedonists
and they robbed retailers at the drop of a hat. Well, it seems
that Kenney Chesney, the country western star wanna be pirate
is the current head pirate of Blue Chair Bay Distillers, and
they have put out a special limited run of Coconut
Spiced Rum Cream for the holidays. Now, that really
does deserve a hardy YOHOHO, so let's get to it and party
like pirates.
Oh
man, this nose is the very essence of the holidays presenting
sweet cream and vanilla, cinnamon and cloves and even a hint
of nutmeg. On the palate, this tastes like the best egg nog
I have ever had. The sweet cream and vanilla mix nicely with
just the right amount of rum to present a very holiday like
profile.
The
finish is sweet and smooth and continues those delicious spice
notes of vanilla and cinnamon and lasts a fairly good while.
On the rocks, it doesn't back down and stays true to its sweet
and spicy, vanilla cream profile. Forget making your own egg
nog and get several bottles of this Blue Chair Bay
Coconut Spiced Rum Cream (man that is one hell of
a long name!) and invite the holidays in, and thank Kenney
and Santa and Black Beard ,and sit back and enjoy the holidays,
and just maybe even be thankful that they last as long as
they do, because you'll have the perfect excuse to drink as
much of this spirit as you might want to.
At
right around $20.00 per 750 ml and at 30 proof, this is the
holidays in a bottle.
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