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Right chaps / gals.


I was in Adventure to celebrate the birthday of a mate a week or so back - on a Tuesday. Ended up with 4 of us at the bar after hours and I took the drunken opportunity to er "intelligently debate" various aspects particularly their Mojito, Ikea/Athena decor and tinny sound system which has come in for a bit of stick.


Anyway despite my polite and eloquent comments I annoyed all three barman particulary the aussie one with the spikes and got kicked out. Before they thought better and invited me back in for a shot on the house.


Anyway - its time to stop dicking around and to resolve this once and for all - forget about the economy /US elections it's time for the East Dulwich Mojito Challenge! I am currently working on the rules and how this will work to be fair to all but I intend to enlist the expert help of Aced Out and an independent panel of judges who fancy themselves as blind tasters. Please PM me if interested.


The winner will get the massivley coveted title of Best Mojito in East Dulwich and a framed picture of a smiling Sean McGhabanananan with his thumbs up for behind the bar.


Stand by for full details soon....

MrBen Wrote:

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> Right chaps / gals.


> Anyway - its time to stop dicking around and to

> resolve this once and for all -it's time for the East

> Dulwich Mojito Challenge! I am currently working

> on the rules and how this will work to be fair to

> all but I intend to enlist the expert help of Aced

> Out and an independent panel of judges who fancy

> themselves as blind tasters. Please PM me if

> interested.

>

> The winner will get the massivley coveted title of

> Best Mojito in East Dulwich and a framed picture

> of a smiling Sean McGhabanananan with his thumbs

> up for behind the bar.

>

> Stand by for full details soon....


Where will this take place?


Can we have some independent entrants?


I really don't fancy the shame of dragging you all down and having to show you my bar in Claam, you will make it look even more "shabby" and far less "chiche" with your vastly superior East Dulwich presence. B) (i'm not even being iron-ronical here- it really is shabby!)


I would like to submit my excellent mojito making skills... or any other cocktail for that matter...


An After Eight Martini?


Expresso Martini?


Long Island?


Lychelicious?

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Count me in as a judge, I've long said that the

> Mojito (and a Martini to be fair) is the litmus

> test of quality for any bar.


It's a tripartite test IMHO - Mojito, Martini and Manhattan. I recently went to a trendy drinking den that promotes itself as a cocktail specialist (it wasn't Adventure, for the avoidance of all doubt). Imagine my horror when the barman said he didn't know what a Manhattan was and had to go off and consult someone else. I thought he was pulling my leg, but no - he really hadn't come across it before - "it isn't in our list of drinks we have to learn" being the parting line as we left...

Apparently Toby was a barman at Be at One (sic?) in Clapham, which is a GREAT cocktail bar, so he should know a really good Mojito. It was actually one of my favourite places in Clapham.


But MrBen - I'm so in!!! When do you start - tonight? My mouth is dry...

>>To quote Wikipedia, "A Manhattan is a cocktail made with whiskey, sweet vermouth, ice, and bitters<<


It has to be Angostura bitters and Bourbon. I got very drunk one night at college with a friend on Jack Daniels Manhattans which I claimed to have invented that night....

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