2010/10 – ANS Distilled Fruits & Blue Suede Shoes

25 Oct

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La grande collection des Eaux de Vie de l’Alsace

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You may do anything, but dont’ya step on my blue suede shoes ……

October 2010

Good to be back from Portugal –

I was needed here in my Pub as Mainz 05 lost the match vs. Hamburg while I was away and the blame was put on me being absent.

Yesterday, against the stronger opponent Bayer Leverkusen, Mainz managed to win again ( 8 matches out of 9 now ) and retake the lead in the German Bundesliga.

Next match will be hot again – opponent will be Borussia Dortmund, coached by J. Klopp, the former Mainz coach, a well liked guy here in Mainz.

So I watched the match in my Pub and had some very fatty cheese-hamburger-baguettes as I knew I’d need a good basis for the following Pharmacy smoke.

Andreas had ordered a selection of different fruit spirits from this Alsace distillery :www.distillerie-mette.com/

And we had a nice time trying all of them out – some 12 odd different sorts of delicious spirits.

Here’s what we had :

Lemon – Vielle Mirabelle – Quetsch – Kirsch -Williams Pear – Cafe Arabica – Fleur de Sureau – Griotte – Framboise – Orange – Apricot – Pain d’Epices – Vielle Prune and a few others.

Except for Gingerbread ( Pain d’Epices) and Lemon that were too sweet for me, I tried 5 or 6 and decided that good old traditional Kirsch, Framboise, Mirabelle and Quetsch are still my favorites.

The cigar was a H.Upmann Monarcas from 2001 and later a fantastic, tasty and creamy VR Clasico.

Andreas, again being at his most daring, showed off his new pair of hand-made shoes by Demir Ibrahim from Wiesbaden – in shocking blue suede.

He’s giving the village a shot of color now that Autumn is turning into Winter and all is gray.

Here’s to blue suede shoes – they rock !

Nino