![]() I imagine it must take a lot of concentration and a very good memory to keep track of all those dots and dashes! A telegraph operator sits at the machine and taps out long and short taps to represent the letters of the message he's sending. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail also developed a telegraph machine, which is what is used to send Morse Code messages. Officially, the short and long pulses are called "dits" and "dahs", but we like to call them "dots" and "dashes" anyway. Or "dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot." This message means "S O S" (S = "." and O is "-"), the distress signal. Probably the most well known Morse Code Message is the one made up of three short pulses, then three long pulses, then three short pulses again. It uses short and long pulses - tones or lights - to represent letters and numbers. For the blended aged rum I used El Dorado 12-year.Morse Code was designed by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. Taylor’s Velvet Falernum was “muled” up from Florida by friends of mine. Notes: As per my usual complaint, I can’t get the more unusual spirits used in craft cocktails in North Carolina. Part of that could be that the Fair Game rhum is not aged, so if I can get my hands on some aged rhum agricole I will revisit it. It was a very nice drink, but I’m going to ding it a star because it tasted a lot like other tiki drinks and didn’t really have a distinctive flavor of its own. I love honey in drinks but it can be tricky to use. The Smuggler’s Cove recipe is a 1:1 ratio of honey to water, where you heat the honey first to make it easier to incorporate with the water. It has some nice grassy overtones missing in regular rum. The Fair Game version is made from local sugar, and I like it so much I gifted a bottle to my friend Lorenzo at the wonderful Dry Martini bar in Barcelona. Rhum agricole became popular once sugar production in the Caribbean grew to the point that it could be used for something like rum versus being refined for regular sugar. Rhum agricole is distilled directly from sugar cane juice, whereas traditional rum is distilled from molasses, a by-product of the distillation process. The cocktail calls for a specific version of rhum agricole that I didn’t have, but I did have a bottle of the Fair Game rhum agricole that I was eager to try in this cocktail. It was kind of cool to watch the lady’s expression go from confusion to surprise to satisfaction in just a few seconds as she looked in the bag. Marne, with obvious practice, said that she wouldn’t give any money but to come to her car and she’d did have something for her. Being gentlemen, at the end of the night we walked her back to her car (a yellow Pontiac Aztec with a bumper sticker that read “If mountain biking were easy, it would be called your Mom”) and a homeless lady approached us for a donation. ![]() This is a gallon ziplock bag which includes water, snacks (like crackers), band-aids, disinfectant, and other useful things a person living on the street might need. One of the amazing things she does is put together “goodie bags” for homeless people. While I’ve known Demetri for over a decade it was also nice to chat with Marne. ![]() Now, the drinks at Three Dots can be the size of your head, so they are best shared. There is nothing better than hanging out with interesting people over amazing drinks. After we ate we ran into a friend of his named Marne, and the three of us ended up at this basement tiki bar called Three Dots and a Dash. They have happy hour pizzas, but after a few drinks we adjourned to find some healthier food. We hadn’t seen each other in awhile and there was a lot to catch up on, so we started off at the the Florentine restaurant bar, home of Life is Beautiful, their take on the Brooklyn and one of my favorite cocktails. Some time ago I was in Chicago and I got to visit with my friend Demetri. This is another recipe from the wonderful Smuggler’s Cove book, but it caught my eye for a totally different reason. Garnish with three cherries and a pineapple chunk on a cocktail pick. Flash blend and open pour with gated finish into a footed pilsner glass. Fill with 12 ounces of crushed ice and 4 to 6 small agitator cubes. 1.50 ounces cane AOC Martinique rhum agricole vieuxĪdd all ingredients to a drink mix tin.Morse code for Victory, it’s Three Dots and a Dash:
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