> And in order to save on precious drinking water all should drink their bourbon straight without ice.
(BIG GRIN!) I’m a Navy Rum man, myself: large, overproof and without ice or mixer. No point polluting perfectly good Rum.
Just got back from Trinidad, where Puncheon Rum is . . . well . . . respected.
Rum and ice and water, day after day after day after . . .
I couldn’t drive out of my head the whole time there the great quip from Winston Churchill: the Royal Navy has made three main contributions to civilization: rum, buggery, and the whip.
I’ve never had much use for the last two, but as for the rum, ;O)