“Ahh Mr Bond, welcome back – would you like your usual Vodka Martini, shaken – not stirred?” asked the bartender of the famous Moscow expat pub, the Bears Arms.
“Not this time”, said James. “I was recently stationed in Rotterdam where those clever Dutch have invented an entirely new drink that I was very taken with, but I can’t remember what it was called – perhaps you would know, Igor?”
“Certainly, certainly Mr Bond, anything for you – please try to describe how it is made and I’ll see if I can rustle it up – or Russial it up if you prefer!” continued Igor, with a weak smile and a wistful follow up comment, “I remember laughter. Ha... Ha... Ha…..”
James described the drink:
“The base is some kind of beer – not the usual Dutch blonde beer, maybe more of an English type”
“Then they take a small glass of some sort of juniper-flavoured spirit, and set light to it until it burns so badly that the smoke really hurts your nose.”
“They take what’s left of this spirit with its horrid burnt smell, then add it to the beer. With an umbrella.”
Igor replied “Of course! I know what this is – in Russia it is called SmolskiJunipov Beer but I guess you would call it…
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Answer > acrid gin ale <
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