Khukuri Rum, could we get some?

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Hello Uncle Bill,
I was thinking about your story with the Khukuri Rum at Narita. I was wondering if we could get some, and if so, how much?

Thanks in advance.
 
Hmm ... I'm afraid there might be some awful paperwork involved in importing liquor -- but if that's insuperable, how about importing the empty bottles?

We can buy the bottle and fill it ourselves, with whatever potables we like.

-Cougar Allen :{)
 
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Cougar that's a great idea.I think it would be a real problem wih duty and customs on any potables brought in except for self use although I have to admit I am very ignorant of such matters.

Now for all you old hands of world travel and the connoisseurs of fine whiskey from the world over....I would like some examples of a really fine Single Malt Scotch Whiskey.
I have heard about these for many years and I understand they can be quite pricey.
I have never had the occasion to sample any and I want too celebrate my retirement with a really fine Single Malt. A small single glass sipped slowly and with contemplation and enjoyment will do nicely I think, along with a really good cigar before I lay the smokes down again.

I do like the occasional nip of something on the order of Chivas and by following an elders epicurean experience I have found a Scotch that does more than compare with the Chivas.It is Crawfords Scotch and can fool the most dedicated Chivas drinker so I am told.It fooled the elder I know anyway.He owns a small liquor store and may stock a small bit,but the liquor stores here generally reflect the effluence of the people in the nighborhoods.
I imagine that I will have to go to the other side of town to one of the stores with a much larger selection.
The last bottle of Scotch I bought lasted me for about two years and it would have lasted longer if my b-i-l hadn't of known I had it.
When I get the Single Malt I will keep it put up so to speak.It will probably be well aged before I finish it.
I am correct in understanding that it mellows more with age am I not?
I also really like the good "smokey" flavor of Scotch.so if one may be a little more "smokey" than another I would appreciate that information as well.
Lookng forward to the response that this may bring!
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If you mix milk of magnesia with vodka and orange juice do you get a phillips screwdriver?

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Importing the rum for anything except personal consumption is a real problem. I would have to empty the rum into gallon jugs and send only empty bottles. And, bottles get broken unless you hand carry them. I don't think I can get it done without exerting so much effort that it become just not worth it.

Sorry.

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

 
But maybe in Yvsa's case, the Highlander who lurks here could contact Uncle Bill with a suggestion or two on single malts.

I'm not into scotch, but I remember a bottle of Hennessy V.S.O.P. Reserve that cost over $30, then they stopped importing it a while. Ten or 15 years later it was back - at over a hundred a bottle.
 
YVSA--the FINEST single malt scotch is McCallum's--12 yr old sells around $40, the 16 yr around $60 (per 5th). Both are aged in Spanish sherry barrels after they have been retired after 3yrs of sherry-aging.

*Note: the 16 yr McCallum's is Scotland's 'Natl Bureau of Standards' measure by which all other scotch whiskies are judged. Seriously.

We serve McCallum's 12 yr old in brandy snifters neat and at room temperature. Our guests just sit, sip and sigh.

(Chivas is mouth-wash by comparison--although a good 3rd drink after your palate has gone to sleep anyway

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hi--a PS (read done your letter a little further.)

One, I suspect your neighborhood liquor stores reflect the 'affluence' of the residents, rather than the 'effluence'--unless you've got a REALLY nasty sewer problem where you live. (We got a great laugh out of that here in the office!)

Two--no, scotch does not mellow in the bottle. That's all over when it leaves the barrel--or so I'VE been told by a neighbor while I was sipping his 100yr old scotch he brought back directly from Scotland. Fantastically smokey and delicious, but not strictly recognizable as scotch because of its unique flavor. (He is a Ph. D. biochemist who also makes excellent champagne.)

Go with McCallums--and keep your brother-in-law out of the cabinet. (I GAVE a bottle to my bro-in-law and he wan't even let me have any.)
 
As I recall, a fifth of Johnny Walker Black Label paid for my plane ticket from Kathmandu to Patna, with some profit left over. Bihar was (is?) a prohibition state, and although you could buy opium in the government shops, alcohol was forbidden. That was the beginning and end of my short but profitable career as a bootlegger.

I did have offers to serve as a mule smuggling silver out of Nepal. I also had a pretty German girl ask me if I had any condoms. This is an unusual occurrence for people as ugly as I, but it turns out she wanted to transport opium from where we were (where it was legal), to Europe (where it was illegal). She was going to fill the condoms with opium and swallow them to transport them through customs. It is probably a good thing for her health that I didn't have any.

Say, maybe that technique would work for Khukuri rum…

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Howard, your post brought back many memories. I had a very lucrative offer to carry cash to Hong Kong for deposit in a bank there -- this offer from drug smugglers. I was too scared to take the job which would have paid me $5000 USD per trip. Of course, there would have been a couple of heavies (unknown to me)on board the plane watching me just to make sure I didn't keep on going with the suitcase full of cash.

Drugs were a major business in Nepal when I lived there. I am not sure how it is today but I suspect it is still a very lucrative and continuing activity.

I heard of a German fellow who was able to swallow 400 condoms full of opium for transport back to Europe. I often wondered if he made it.

All this stuff made me very nervous and I tried to stay away from it.

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Himalayan Imports Website
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[This message has been edited by Bill Martino (edited 14 December 1999).]
 
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Well Mintzermints I really do appreciate the information!!
McCallum's huh?
Sixteen year old Scotch!!Sounds mighty good to me.Aged in Sherry barrels? Now that's interesting and something I w'uld nae a thot uve.
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I do bet that would make for an interesting flavor.
I imagine that when I get a bottle that it will be a one time thing unless it spoils me completely and I run out before "I" run out.
I will _have_ to get the one that all others are judged by!!

I seldom have anything to drink unless it is an occasional beer with the kids.Now it used to be a different story and I could tell you what beer you had served me if I hadn't seen the bottle.
I think that may be the German side of the family popping out.
There is more Indin now than German or English,Scot,Irish mix.

I do appreciate differnt tates unlike most Scotch drinkers I know.
I like Apricot Brandy if it's really cold and the throat gets a little sore.
Then I used to get a bottle of the Wild Turkey Liquor at Christmas time and I would share that with friends and family.It is definitely a "sippin" drink as it is nicely sweetened with honey.

As to the effluence or affluence thing well if it had of been about 3 years ago here it most definitely would have been the effluence! We had a holding effluent pond about 3 blocks from the house and when it wasn't being maintained correctly and the wind was just right.Whhheeewww!!
In some cases it still is the "E"ffluence,but you have to consider my neighborhood and some of the people living in it.(vbeseg)
About 6 years ago the guy next door in a rent house put a dayum-ed Horse in thier backyard for a year.Then to top it off he had a Blaberador Retriever that never shut up.
It wasn't the animals that were the problem,it was the &$$#@^# supposely taking care of them!!
Such is life in the county of Wagoner State of Oklahoma.
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hehehehe.
Gotta Love the Most Laughed At State in the Union!!
I won't start in about the Governor.
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If you mix milk of magnesia with vodka and orange juice do you get a phillips screwdriver?

Khukuri FAQ


 
Yvsa:

Why didn't you ask this sooner? Finally I can be of some service to you to repay the debt for the excellent job you did on that Sirupati...

Talisker is my personal favorite malt whisky.

Lagavulin is also quite nice. I have heard good things about Laphroiag ("the most richly flavored of all Scots whiskies") and I do enjoy it, but I like the Lagavulin better.

Whatever you do, don't be drinkin' no blends.

When I came back from Germany this summer I was able to get my grubby little hands on 1 litre of Glenfarclas 105 (actually 120 proof US measure) for duty free prices.

That was pretty cool.

That stuff wakes you up in the morning better than any effete Starbucks crap, that's for damn sure...

Wild Turkey is good stuff. I have also been known to hit the Old Crow pretty hard as well, but then I am related to that particular animal.

I once drank almost a fifth of Johnny Walker on an empty stomach, but whisky is best enjoyed in moderation.

Yvsa, if you can't find any Talisker in your local liquor store, let me know and I will send you a bottle; it is the elixir of the gods.

To the "king o' drinks"!

-"Mad Dog" McDave
 
I forgot to mention that Khukuri rum is near 151 proof my best guess, is the color of black coffee, and leaves you with a terrifying headache next AM if you have too much of the stuff. When I drank it I had the usual rum and coke to mask the taste and power of the stuff.

Today it is beer for me almost exclusively. I can't handle the hard stuff as I did when I was young.

Has everybody heard the Khukuri rum-Narita story?

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Uncle Bill
Himalayan Imports Website
Khukuri FAQ

 
Make mine Knob Creek (in bourbon).

Of course Bombay is great(in Gin).

(about all the booze I drink anymore)
 
My problem is, I can't *stand* the taste of alky. I mean not at ALL. Then again, I had a friend years ago who would speak longingly of his favorite way to bend his brain...

A brandy enema.

Yikes.

He's dead now, and surprisingly enough that wasn't what did it.

Jim
 
The khukuri rum - Narita story?

Why not repeat it? I *think* I remember but if it is what I think, worth retelling. How does that go? "An armed society is a polite society" ( Robert Anson Heinlein ).

[This message has been edited by Rusty (edited 19 December 1999).]
 
Please repeat the story, Uncle Bill. Newcomers haven't read it, and I'm sure many senior members would like to read it again.
 
Uncle, it's good to hear the story from you again. I've heard of a restaurant in Tokyo serves khukuri rum, with its bottle not empty. Rusty, was the phrase from "The moon is a harsh mistress"? My memory of the book is not clear as the book I read was a translated one.




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