special taste

At BlogNAC parties, Alex is known as the master of alcohol infusions. His specialty is a cucumber-infused vodka that, in my opinion, goes especially well with ginger ale. Alex cuts the cucumbers into long strips rather than into chunks, so the end result, besides being tasty, is quite aesthetically appealing. The makers of the following infusion seem to have gotten the tasty part down, but are still struggling with its appearance.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Hungarian builders who drank their way to the bottom of a huge barrel of rum while renovating a house got a nasty surprise when a pickled corpse tumbled out of the empty barrel, a police magazine Web site reported.

It's too bad that a naked man fell out of the barrel because until then the Hungarian builders had especially enjoyed the rum's unique properties.

According to the Web site, workers said the rum in the 300-liter barrel had a “special taste” so they even decanted a few bottles of the liquor to take home.