Mystery Liquor No. 103

[Rebekah Scott]

I am sitting in Caamaño, a family bar in Santiago with Sybille, finishing off a long day´s journey west. She recommends a brandy that´s numbered, she can´t recall the name, it´s recommended by the illustrious Tinkatinker, a habitue of this very forum.
So I ask the enthusiastic waiter what Sybille is referring to. He brings me two bottles: Magno 103, or Terry 1900? The Terry has funky wire webbing on it, SO bourgeois... so I opt for the Magno. He brings me the Terry anyway. Do I want a glass, or a shot? On ice?
Just a brandy, solo, por favor!
So I sip my Tinkatinker drink from a full-to-the-brim chupito glass... And it´s sweet and flat and fruity. Not anything like brandy at all!
No wonder they offered to serve this on ice!
Is it TinkaTinker, hoodwinking me into a cleverly disguised strawberry daquiri? Is it the bar, passing off slivovitz as after-dinner cognac?
It´s probably me. Since failing 8th-grade algebra and every maths course since, I should know better than try anything named after a number.
It´s probably Spain, though. Always pulling something new and fun out of its endless magic hat.

 

[Former member 49149]

I am sitting in Caamaño, a family bar in Santiago with Sybille, finishing off a long day´s journey west. She recommends a brandy that´s numbered, she can´t recall the name, it´s recommended by the illustrious Tinkatinker, a habitue of this very forum.
So I ask the enthusiastic waiter what Sybille is referring to. He brings me two bottles: Magno 103, or Terry 1900? The Terry has funky wire webbing on it, SO bourgeois... so I opt for the Magno. He brings me the Terry anyway. Do I want a glass, or a shot? On ice?
Just a brandy, solo, por favor!
So I sip my Tinkatinker drink from a full-to-the-brim chupito glass... And it´s sweet and flat and fruity. Not anything like brandy at all!
No wonder they offered to serve this on ice!
Is it TinkaTinker, hoodwinking me into a cleverly disguised strawberry daquiri? Is it the bar, passing off slivovitz as after-dinner cognac?
It´s probably me. Since failing 8th-grade algebra and every maths course since, I should know better than try anything named after a number.
It´s probably Spain, though. Always pulling something new and fun out of its endless magic hat.

Was it Licor 43 Cuarenta y Tres?

 

[Tincatinker]

Ah Reb. Ciento Tres; the Ciento Tres, is from Osborne. Though naughty Spanish camareros may try to pawn you off with other stuffs. And as the perceptive @kirkie has pointed out the notorious Cuarenta Tres has more sugar in it than Barbados

If only I had been there to assist....

Buen caminos amigas xxx

 

[Tincatinker]

For those who might be wondering. Please don't drink it all....

 

[Anemone del Camino]

43 is really best used as an ingredient in cocktails, not on its own.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

For those who might be wondering. Please don't drink it all....

And for those who might drink it all , the world around you will get very different.

Wish you well,Peter.

 

[Stivandrer]

43 is really best used as an ingredient in cocktails, not on its own.

- and minor skin abrasions ..!

 

[Mournes]

I am sitting in Caamaño, a family bar in Santiago with Sybille, finishing off a long day´s journey west. She recommends a brandy that´s numbered, she can´t recall the name, it´s recommended by the illustrious Tinkatinker, a habitue of this very forum.
So I ask the enthusiastic waiter what Sybille is referring to. He brings me two bottles: Magno 103, or Terry 1900? The Terry has funky wire webbing on it, SO bourgeois... so I opt for the Magno. He brings me the Terry anyway. Do I want a glass, or a shot? On ice?
Just a brandy, solo, por favor!
So I sip my Tinkatinker drink from a full-to-the-brim chupito glass... And it´s sweet and flat and fruity. Not anything like brandy at all!
No wonder they offered to serve this on ice!
Is it TinkaTinker, hoodwinking me into a cleverly disguised strawberry daquiri? Is it the bar, passing off slivovitz as after-dinner cognac?
It´s probably me. Since failing 8th-grade algebra and every maths course since, I should know better than try anything named after a number.
It´s probably Spain, though. Always pulling something new and fun out of its endless magic hat.

 

[Mournes]

Hi Reb
I did not imbibe any of the alcoholic liquors mentioned in your post but this bar was recommended to me by one of the guys in Cafe Tertula.I had the menu del dia on Wed and Thursday of last week.Three courses served with a great draft beer and all for 8 euro 50.Very friendly staff .

 

[rappahannock_rev]

43 is really best used as an ingredient in cocktails, not on its own.

Agree with both you and Tincatinker. Still, I keep a bottle around because it's, well, 'Spanish'!

I also have kept, unopened, a small bottle of some sort of caramel-colored liquor that I bought in a shop near the Plaza de Cervantes, SdeC.:"Habelas Hailas; La Pocion de la Buena Suerte". Does this ring bells with anyone? I think it's a coffee liquor of some sort. Label shows a witch flying on a broomstick....! (Bought it for the bishop as a Halloween gag, but decided that he might not appreciate it.... Gotta be careful dealing with the boss, ya know!)

 

[Tincatinker]

sigh... How could they take something so pure and natural as Orujo and do that to it?

 

[jmcarp]

Unsophisticates like me me never get past "Una cerveza, por favor." Or, if I'm feeling really hip, it's "Vino tinto de casa, por favor." Of course I learned on the Portugués that to be really cool I should order vino verde.

 

[domigee]

I am sitting in Caamaño, a family bar in Santiago with Sybille, finishing off a long day´s journey west. She recommends a brandy that´s numbered, she can´t recall the name, it´s recommended by the illustrious Tinkatinker, a habitue of this very forum.
So I ask the enthusiastic waiter what Sybille is referring to. He brings me two bottles: Magno 103, or Terry 1900? The Terry has funky wire webbing on it, SO bourgeois... so I opt for the Magno. He brings me the Terry anyway. Do I want a glass, or a shot? On ice?
Just a brandy, solo, por favor!
So I sip my Tinkatinker drink from a full-to-the-brim chupito glass... And it´s sweet and flat and fruity. Not anything like brandy at all!
No wonder they offered to serve this on ice!
Is it TinkaTinker, hoodwinking me into a cleverly disguised strawberry daquiri? Is it the bar, passing off slivovitz as after-dinner cognac?
It´s probably me. Since failing 8th-grade algebra and every maths course since, I should know better than try anything named after a number.
It´s probably Spain, though. Always pulling something new and fun out of its endless magic hat.

How could you be 'unfaithful' to good old Orujo or even Patxaran??!!!

 

[ISABEL linares]

- and minor skin abrasions ..!

Caminante no hay caminio se hace camino al andar

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