Casa Fuente Robusto

[stevehawk]

Steve,
since the idea came up, I've been checking o0ut the recipes on-line. Do you use the splash of bitters or no? Seems to be a pretty even split over that one! Also, nearly everyone seems to use cheap light rum, like basic Bacardi. I wonder if using a qulaity gold rum would bes better, worse, or a waste of good rum?
I think I'll do some experiments this weekend. We are having central american/carribean themed dinner tomrrow night with a few couples...my experimentation might look like being a good host!

I have yet to look at the on-line recipes (but I plan to), I've just been using the mixer the wife got me. I've been working with the rum/mixer/seltzer water ratios. So far, 1/3 of each, with a few mint leaves added in, tastes the best to me. I am using Bacardi Select, which is darker than your basic Bacardi -- seems to do the trick.

Let us know how your experiments go!

 

[CasaSoho]

Here's what I was thinking of, not specific to Chicopee, I think Wilbraham enacted a ban though:


Smoking ban in private clubs upheld by court
By DAN RING
Staff writer

BOSTON – In a decision with statewide effects, the state’s highest court today ruled that municipal boards of health are allowed to ban smoking in private charitable clubs.

Ruling in an Athol case, the state Supreme Judicial Court said that state law allows municipalities to impose tougher anti-smoking regulations than permitted under the 2004 statewide workplace smoking ban. The ruling affects smoking in private clubs such as American Legions across the state and gives municipalities broad powers to establish their own anti-smoking rules.

“We consider in this case whether a town board of health has the authority to promulgate a regulation that prohibits smoking at all times in the premises of membership associations, sometimes referred to as private clubs,” said the decision by the state Supreme Judicial Court. “We conclude that it does.”

The 2004 state law, which bars smoking in restaurants and bars, specifically exempts most private clubs and fraternal organizations, as long as the clubs are closed to the public. But the state Supreme Judicial Court said a section of the 2004 state law allows health boards to go beyond the state law and create regulations that further limit smoking.

The Supreme Court decision overrides a ruling by Worcester Superior Court Judge John S. McCann. The Worcester judge last year ruled in favor of an appeal by the American Lithuanian Naturalization Club, an American Legion Post and the Athol Franco American club, all private organizations in Athol that challenged the local board of health’s decision to ban smoking in charitable clubs.

“The judge’s reading of the statute is unduly restrictive,” said the high court decision written by Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall.

“We have long recognized that the rule making authority of local boards of health is broad.”

McCann said the Athol Board of Health was arbitrary and capricious and lacked the authority to forbid smoking in private clubs

 

[smokelaw1]

Ah, yeah, I've seen that. Opens the door for municipalities to shut down smoking pretty much everywhere but in private homes.

 

[CasaSoho]

Steve,
since the idea came up, I've been checking o0ut the recipes on-line. Do you use the splash of bitters or no? Seems to be a pretty even split over that one! Also, nearly everyone seems to use cheap light rum, like basic Bacardi. I wonder if using a qulaity gold rum would bes better, worse, or a waste of good rum?
I think I'll do some experiments this weekend. We are having central american/carribean themed dinner tomrrow night with a few couples...my experimentation might look like being a good host!

I've actually used light Bacardi with my new recipe, I bought the lime and mint, came home to find no rum. The closest place was a small packi that only had bacardi. I've wondered how it would taste with 10 Cane.

 

[smokelaw1]

Steve,
since the idea came up, I've been checking o0ut the recipes on-line. Do you use the splash of bitters or no? Seems to be a pretty even split over that one! Also, nearly everyone seems to use cheap light rum, like basic Bacardi. I wonder if using a qulaity gold rum would bes better, worse, or a waste of good rum?
I think I'll do some experiments this weekend. We are having central american/carribean themed dinner tomrrow night with a few couples...my experimentation might look like being a good host!

I've actually used light Bacardi with my new recipe, I bought the lime and mint, came home to find no rum. The closest place was a small packi that only had bacardi. I've wondered how it would taste with 10 Cane.

Well, I just got the go-ahead to make them at the party tomorrow night, so I will dtop by the liquor store tonihgt, and get a few differnt bottles. I have some 7 Cane from Belize (or is it one cane? I can't recall at the moment). This should be fun.
I'll keep you posted how it works.

 

[CasaSoho]

Steve,
since the idea came up, I've been checking o0ut the recipes on-line. Do you use the splash of bitters or no? Seems to be a pretty even split over that one! Also, nearly everyone seems to use cheap light rum, like basic Bacardi. I wonder if using a qulaity gold rum would bes better, worse, or a waste of good rum?
I think I'll do some experiments this weekend. We are having central american/carribean themed dinner tomrrow night with a few couples...my experimentation might look like being a good host!

I've actually used light Bacardi with my new recipe, I bought the lime and mint, came home to find no rum. The closest place was a small packi that only had bacardi. I've wondered how it would taste with 10 Cane.

Well, I just got the go-ahead to make them at the party tomorrow night, so I will dtop by the liquor store tonihgt, and get a few differnt bottles. I have some 7 Cane from Belize (or is it one cane? I can't recall at the moment). This should be fun.
I'll keep you posted how it works.

Pictures please... (as long as your guests aren't too freaked out that you're photographing the drinks.)

 

[smokelaw1]

I can picture Laurie's face as I take pictures of the guests' cocktails. She would blush and politely explain that the pics are for my "internet cigar girlfriends" (which is how she refers to all of you!)

 

[CasaSoho]

I can picture Laurie's face as I take pictures of the guests' cocktails. She would blush and politely explain that the pics are for my "internet cigar girlfriends" (which is how she refers to all of you!)

Lol! :sign: I can't wait to tell my wife for the first time; "Honey, I'm going to smoke cigars with some stangers from the internet, don't wait up."

 

[smokelaw1]

LOL! She says that she knows that I'm not cheating, as no woman in her right mind would be caught dead anywhere that I go that I come home smelling so terribly.

 

[smokelaw1]

Well, I was curious as to what kind of interest there might be for a Mojito Herf, so http://www.cigarpass.com/forumsipb/index.php?showtopic=23406 let me know!