Thingorjus and Gluwein--will we mix?
 

I, the Great and Powerful Thingorjus, will be travelling to Berlin in a few weeks. I want to go to a Christmas market and try gluwein. What does it taste like? How much can one drink until one is falling-down drunk like cousin Muffy?

WARNING: I can drink A LOT. Gin is like mother's milk to me.

Thinny

First, it is Glühwein.

Glühwein is a mild drink, just red wine, a little juice and spices (cinnamon, cloves...).

It tastes like Christmas.

If you want a stronger Glühwein, order one "mit Schuss" - then they will add a shot of something, like rum or brandy. Some Glühwein stalls have a list with add-ons.

Enjoy!

Ah Liza Doolittle, I mean Thin, I can't wait to hear about your adventures in Berlin. I AM A CAMERA comes to mind for some reason.

An early Bon Voyage.
If you can drink ALOT of our Christmas mulled wine, you can drink lot of Gluwein.
You'll turn back to gin after a few, I suspect.

Thanks so much.

I am like Eliza Doolittle, aren't I?
I have gone from Cockney flowergirl (more like cigarette girl) to Queen of Fodorville.

Give me my robe,
put on my crown,
I have immortal longings in me. (Shakespeare)

thinny

Hey TG,

"With these words, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, joins her Roman lover, Mark Antony, in death".

We need you to come back and give us a trip report.

((I))

>How much can one drink...

Try!

Schlank und traumhaft,

Prost!

Keep a bottle of Jagermeister in your coat pocket and if you feel the gluhwein isn't doing the business, take a few nips of the JM. But remember: Meissen store, THEN Jagermeister, not the other way around!

The thing I remember most about gluwein is how sweet it was. After I drank a glass of gluwein I had a glass of champagne. The champagne tasted like beer I couldn't even drink it! (and I LOVE champagne!)

Oops, sorry, ignore my previous post. I mixed up gluwein & glugg.

Again: It's named "Glühwein" or, for those who can't type the two dots on the u, "Gluehwein".

Thin, let's not forget Eliza Doolittle's line "gin was like mother's milk", to which you've alluded in your initial post on this thread.

Be careful while over there, sweetie darling. A pal of mine lived in Munich and said the cheap stuff sold in the streets near these markets sometimes has additives that induced the worst hangover she ever had.

All the best,
BC

But, but, but it's not served in Baccarat or anything comparable, is it? =-O

O Great and Mighty Thingorjus,

after I have read "Morning Becomes Electra" I have some recommendations for places that Muffy might like:

- Harry's Bar in the Grand Hotel Esplanade might be a place for her, and also around the corner, the Bar am Lützowplatz.

- For a hearty Currywurst which might be washed down with Veuve Cliquot: Curry 195 (Kurfürstendamm 195).

- Stroll along Oranienburger Straße (well after 10 p.m.) and visit the Tacheles at the western end of that street.

Zum Wohl and prosit!

Don't get drunk on Gluewein, Thin. It'll make you sick sick sick from the sweetness. It tastes like what is is - cheap wine heated up with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. BAD hangover material. One glass, maybe two, is all you'll want. Fortify yourself with a flask or two of gin and just use the Gluewein as a filler.

Trust me, dahlink....

Remember Boone's Farm? Place a bottle in an open saucepan, heat to reduce by about half, adding a stick of cinnamon and some allspice for the last 15 minutes and you will have an approximation. Kinda makes one want to rush to Bailey, Banks & Biddle for a new, larger personal flask, doesn't it?

>>>Place a bottle in an open saucepan, heat to reduce by about half,<<<

Are you crazy???

Alcohol evaporates at 60 degrees Celsius. You have to handle a bottle of wine as delicately as a thin gorgeous.

Never heat your wine over 50C. And if - a "Schuss" will help. To be exact: A "Schuss" ever helps. To be certain, better take two "Schüsse". Or three.

In the meantime, give Muffy a glass of champagne.

And a Currywurst in between. It helps to get along with the champagne.

drink 'em under the table Thinny... we know you will do us proud.

Thank you, but if Gluewine is sweet, I will not like it. I think I will stick to a nice Cos d'Estornel 1990.

Muffy is not going to Berlin with me. She is going to Cortina with her family over the Christmas holiday to ski. They invited me, but Muffy, her mother, and her brother, Minty, would drive me mad. It would be like 666.

We are not amused by the name reference to that horrid jewellery store, Seamus.

The Great and Powerful Thingorjus

I'll stick to jagertea

Oh, live a little...mix a little Jungle Juice in and you'll have a great time no matter what you're drinking.

Germans will drink anything with ethyl alcohol in it. Jägermeister comes to mind as an obnoxious carrier of EtOH, along with G. Try a mug. You'll probably go back to your regular poison. IMO there is nothing that can be done with German red wine to make it palatable. Maybe I should say potable.

Since you like gin I recommend a trip to Amsterdam where you will be in heaven with the NL national beverage - genever, neat and ice cold, and poured to the brim of the flute. Lean over the bar and suck it up so you don't spill a drop. Try the Hoppe at the Spui in Amsterdam. You'll love it. Muffy might decide to stay forever. Go in the side door with the regulars.

Whatever, I am looking forward to another of your off the wall reports with Muffy and you on the road. I am laughing already.

send postcard, Pastis is yearing to hear who is taking care of Jackie-O or is she going with Keith?

TG - and here I was so certain that you would just love BB&B. (yeah, right...)
Are they still around? When I was at Temple I used to buy lovely silver baby rattles from them as gifts for my fecund friends.

Shucks, I just read that Muffy is deserting you on this trip.

Jagermeister?

It tastes like Buttercup Syrup to me but DH loves it.

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>>>IMO there is nothing that can be done with German red wine to make it palatable<<<

hopscotch:

You should try a red wine from the Ahr made by
- Meyer-Näkel,
- Adeneuer or
- Stodden
before you say that again.

You may also read Hugh Johnson about German wines.

The prejudices againt German wines come from people who are used to drink Liebfraumilch and Blue Nun. These products are not available in Germany; they are specially made for British and American palates (in fact, they are the products of chemical factories in Northern Africa, using recycled camel pee as the main ingredient).

Although I admit that I also have a box of 1989 Cos d'Estournel in my cellar (it was the year my children were born)...

Same with Jägermeister. The last time I drank it I was sixteen. Now, in the USA, it sells like hotcakes. What do you learn from this?

Thingorjus:

In Berlin, you will find a Cos d'Estournel at these restaurants:
- First Floor,
- Fischers Fritz,
- Hugo's,
- Margaux
and certainly many more.

Dear Mimi, Jackie O will go with my sister, Heidi, for Christmas. I already have her outfits picked out. Keith would take her, but his parents have 3 cats. Jackie does not like kitties. My sister has a Lab, so Jackie will have a friend for the holidays.

My sister likes to dress up the dogs in Christmas outfits and take lots of photos.

Did I mention that my sister, Jennifer, your neighbor, went to Aix-en-Provence to visit her son who is at school there? She will be back on Friday.

Thingorjus

I'm not thinking Eliza Dolittle as much as I am Sally Bowles!

<<< IMO there is nothing that can be done with German red wine to make it palatable. Maybe I should say potable. >>>

Drink a bottle of Jagemeister beforehand

<i>Drink a bottle of Jagemeister beforehand</i>

LOL. Thanks alanRow. You made my day!