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Anybody drinks mulled wine?
Not had mulled wine for 20 years that is the last time i made some. I just watched a YouTube video to remind myself how to make it. the recipe i watched was seriously calorie dense.
I have Christmas off this year I may make some low calorie mulled wine.
I think I last drank mulled wine at a New Year's Day wedding I attended nearly 20 years ago now. They had it sitting in the foyer for guests to drink. I don't think I've ever had it since. I'm not sure that I was overly keen on it.
It's nice, but it's a once a year thing for me. Drinking it after the twelve days of Christmas just feels awfully out of season.
Yes, you're right. It was a bit out of season now that you mention it. I suppose it was laid on as it was still vaguely Chrismassy, albeit the festivities were past.
Technically, the season ends on Epiphany, so you were well within it when you drank it. But I personally get the post Christmas blues round the 27th, so I tend to celebrate less afterwards. I have a cheese and wine/beer diet.
Back when I was a child, "les Rois" was still a big thing. Now it is the weeks leading to Christmas I enjoy the most, even though they can be stressful. Anyway, back on topic, we generally receive mulled wine as present from friends, but by that time, we're generally all stocked with alcohol, so we seldom drink that bottle. Ironically, mulled wine is one of the few alcohols my wife enjoys.
I think that the mulled wine I drank on that occasion was non-alcoholic.
I usually have Coke in lieu of alcohol, never mixing it with a spirit. For nostalgic reasons, but also because when I'm feeling a tad hungover, or a lot, it generally makes me feel better. Christmas 2022 was godawful: I had a nasty fever that wouldn't quit, so I went cold turkey, no pun intended. I drank Coca-Cola for twelve days or almost.
I tend to have it with coke or as a Dark and Stormy. Even had it warmed like mulled wine in the past, which I'm also really partial to. If I'm feeling fancy I'll also do a couple of cocktails with it - a sort of rum Sidecar (which is usually brandy, cointreau and lemon with a sugar rim, but in this case it's the rum, Cointreau and fresh lime juice and maybe a small amount of syrup to sweeten to taste with a cinnamon powder rim). If I've got bitters I'll do an Old Fashioned with it. Again, both taste wonderfully Christmassy to me.
Other than that I'm not too fussy with drink at this time of year. Most of what's handed to me I'll take happily.
This was his weapon for those interested:
https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/services/aircraft/consolidated-canso.html
Great tribute to your grandfather.
Coca-Cola does have some electrolytes, I drink it sometimes when feeling run down.
Rum is a drink i don't think I have ever tried, never been a huge spirit drinker beyond Whiskey and Vodka, perhaps I should buy a small bottle of rum.
My wife likes Bucks Fizz for Christmastime, partout New Year's Eve and Christmas Day.
I had one today. The first of the season.
I drink way too much of it, year round. :'(