‘ROHTO’
From “Hanki Baari”
€12 pp (£10.40)
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/10
What better way to start off “the year of abundance” with a drink apparently made out of every single ingredient ever made! Everything tasted overripe in a very aggressive way, with an aftertaste I can only describe as ongoing.
I barely noticed the comedically small blueberries as they held no flavour against the overpowering diesel flavour that clung to my throat. If I didn’t take a picture, I could be convinced they were never even there. It’s sad to see oppression somehow be in a drink, but there you go, sometimes you are given a drink that tastes of what aggression would taste like and you just have to let it roll down your throat and move on. Which is what I tried to do until my sister smashed three mugs on her way out, so maybe don’t do that if you value the people around you.
And also don’t bring a Great Dane into a shoe cupboard of a pub. A tiny finnish woman held its collar as if she had any control over the beast that was two sizes bigger than her and I was just on edge the whole time, waiting to be taken by its colossal heaving body. I would never bring a lion into a pub so I would hope a hound the size of all my cousins combined, could maybe go to the pub opposite next time. Hopefully one day me and that Great Dane can have a drink together and share a laugh, but certainly not anytime soon, sorry.
Cocktails should be socialist to work properly, with every ingredient having a say in some form or another. This was rather on the totalitarian side, unfortunately. If one ingredient hogs the entire flavour, is it even a cocktail at that point? Something to think about…
Quite an insistent drink in retrospect. Fair play to her as I guess you have to be confident with your intent. I would say this shows the limit to that confidence, but you have to take inspiration from where you can.