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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: hotel21 on 18 August 2010, 22:51:04
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Way back in the days of my plooky youth in the real navy - The British Merchant Navy (thats the one without the guns to shoot back...) - we used to regularly partake of bacardi in all its assorted forms....
Straight Bacardi Carta Blanca, Gold, Light Dry, Dark Dry etc but the big chief was 151 proof.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi_151
I subsequently purchased a bottle in the US in 2001 and managed to nurse it into 2010 and then it expired.....
Enyone else enjoyed such devils brew??
I lamented its demise such that my two kids managed, via the powers of the internet and cold cash, to get me another bottle and so tonight, am warmly enjoying a couple of extended Coba Libre's.
Braw!! 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)
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Enyone else managed to enjoy such devils brew??
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I still remember the feeling of sailing into a force 12 when leaving Savana after getting completely hammered on Bacardi 151. I was young, stupid & just turned 23 so excerised absolutely no control on my drinking the day/night before we sailed!!!!!!!!
I was poorly to say the very least :-? :-? ;D ;D ;D ;D
I thought I was in the real Navy! ::) ::) ::) :y
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Enyone else managed to enjoy such devils brew??
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I still remember the feeling of sailing into a force 12 when leaving Savana after getting completely hammered on Bacardi 151. I was young, stupid & just turned 23 so excerised absolutely no control on my drinking the day/night before we sailed!!!!!!!!
I was poorly to say the very least :-? :-? ;D ;D ;D ;D
Yup.... Wanna a T Shirt?? :y ;D :y ;D
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Every time i go to france i always make sure i get a bottle of ricard or 3....yum :P
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I thought I was in the real Navy! ::) ::) ::) :y
We hit the same waves/Paddy's Milestones...... ;)
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I thought I was in the real Navy! ::) ::) ::) :y
We hit the same waves/Paddy's Milestones...... ;)
;D ;D ;D ;) :y
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According to the great wiki what you have there is a Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Libre
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According to the great wiki what you have there is a Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Libre
The biggest crisis was when the original bottle was empty!! ;D
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According to the great wiki what you have there is a Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Libre
The biggest crisis was when the original bottle was empty!! ;D
Not like you to run out of firewater B. You're slipping mate. ;D
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Am a Bacardi fan, might have to try some of that if I can get my hands on some. ::)
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Some more years back than I care to remember, a small south american country called Belize had a minor punch up with its slightly larger neighbour. Being a British Dependency UK Forces were deployed to assist. The VC10's carried the boys .. the C130 Hercules carried the kit, but there wasn't enough room at Belize Airport for all the aircraft .. so we (Herc crews) were not allowed to stay there .. we had to stop at a very nice Carribean Island overnight, then do there-belize-back there the next day... for another overnighter. It was "standard procedure" to collect a couple of bottles and a slab of coke on the way to the hotel to consume on the beach. One trip the young loadmaster picked up 151 instead of normal bacardi .... 'Twas very fortunate that the next day one of the engines would not start as I doubt we would have been very legal had we got airbourne !!! :)
Very nice stuff .. but somewhat lethal in large quantities !!
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According to the great wiki what you have there is a Cuban Missile Crisis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba_Libre
The biggest crisis was when the original bottle was empty!! ;D
Not like you to run out of firewater B. You're slipping mate. ;D
True, but I did set off the low level alarm quite timeously....
Finished the original one tonight, cracked the seal on the Fathers Day (past) replacement shortly thereafter.
Must be doing well tonight.
Onto my third full size one and still able to judge suitable for another.
Glad its day off tomorrow! :D ;D
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Bacardi 151............
WOW!!! Rocket fuel.
Drank a whole bottle in an hour in my (stupid) student days............
Suffice to say I did NOT go to lectures the next day, and talked to God down the big white telephone.
(Awwwwwwww! Goddddddddddd! Baaaaaarf!!!!!)
For those who didn't know what a white telephone is.
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I believe that Baaaaaarf has a relation called ruuuuuuth :y :y
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Some more years back than I care to remember, a small south american country called Belize had a minor punch up with its slightly larger neighbour. Being a British Dependency UK Forces were deployed to assist. The VC10's carried the boys .. the C130 Hercules carried the kit, but there wasn't enough room at Belize Airport for all the aircraft .. so we (Herc crews) were not allowed to stay there .. we had to stop at a very nice Carribean Island overnight, then do there-belize-back there the next day... for another overnighter. It was "standard procedure" to collect a couple of bottles and a slab of coke on the way to the hotel to consume on the beach. One trip the young loadmaster picked up 151 instead of normal bacardi .... 'Twas very fortunate that the next day one of the engines would not start as I doubt we would have been very legal had we got airbourne !!! :)
Very nice stuff .. but somewhat lethal in large quantities !!
Slightly OT, but I have recently read Phoenix Squadron which tells the (true) story of the Buccaneer missions from Ark Royal which were aimed at putting the 'neighbour' back in their box! And it worked.....
A good read, I commend it to the house - er, forum...