After a recent back packing trip I now concur with my canoe partner that rum and tang is fantastic. We decided thats what is coming up to the Q with us this year.

I  dont usually take anything with to Q....but a few years back I had kidney stones when I went....  my cure was a quetico golden margarita.   the flask contained half 1800 especial gold and half gran marnier.  Pack that in and fill a cup half way and the other half with lemonade mix and water..(mixed so strong that its tart) its great...and also guaranteed to take the edge off

PhantomJug wrote on Mar 28^th, 2008 at 8:03pm:


That would be SMARMY.

Speaking of "fruity notes" I could name a few of them around here.   

The predominant characteristic of the Islay Malts is the phenolic, briney, charred wood flavor, so yes, smokey would qualify; peaty might be a better description.  More note-able is the absence of what the other regions produce, i.e. more nutty, carmel, coffee, apricot or fruity notes on the palettes.

Do these other Islays have the smoky, tarred-rope taste of Laphroig? I am also fond of Lapsang Souchong tea which has a similar smoky flavor.  I have read that the Lapsong Souchong flavor comes from the smoking of the tea leaves over pine wood--I wonder if a similar process is used to produce the Laphroig flavor?  One nice bonus for me is that Laphroig is a little too wild for most people so it last a lot longer, which is good because it is fairly pricey.

Any Islay Malt is SO CHOICE Springer.  Nice!  

If you like Laphroaig you might like to try Caol Ila (12 yr) and/or Ardbeg (10 yr).  Of course Lagavulin is the standard (if I have the $$)They don't have these at Duty Free but they should be readily available elsewhere.

I think I'll pour myself a finger or two right now in fact.

Laphroig& a splash of Quetico lake water would be my first choice, but I may have to try Solus' Q martini--there are some awfully tasty tequilas out there.  Hennesey cognac, Busnel Calvados...my buddies prefer Meyers rum and Tang.

Rum and tang, Captain to be specific. Mix at 3:1

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Our first day out we almost died, going from French to Trouser in low water and an under-supply of drinking water because many of our water bottles were filled with 151-rum.  We got in late, and fell into bed without eating.  The next day all we had in front of us was the 4000 meter portage from Trouser to cache (that is what it is on one map, it may be shorter but is till a monster).  Cache has a campsite on a wide beach area and our maps at the time only showed that one campsite.  It was occupied.  There was a solist there who had been traveling for a month, having not spoken to anyone during that time (except for an occasional shout to passing canoes.  He was gald for the company, especially given our supply of rum.  He invited to us to join him, so we camped down the beach away from where he had camped. So we set about celebrating our survival of the first two days.  And we figured we had two-days ration of rum to drink since we had not had any the night before.
We swapped stories with the solist and continued drinking past the two-day ration.

Well things got way carried away.  Our group had two females (maybe part of the reason the solist was willing to share the campsite), and one decided to go skinny dipping.  The soloist saw this as a sign that it was not.  There was no violence, but he did have to be forcibly convinced the naked lady was not a gift to him from the Quetico gods.  We ended up spending a second night camped there because there was no way we were going to do the 3850 meter portage from Cache into McKenzie with the hangovers we had.
I am not sure the solist remembered anything about what happened the night before, he was that drunk. But he did move, heading the other direction to Trousers.