[thekremlin]

So we are moving to a new and sexy apartment next friday. The first thing I plan to do after we move in is go to London's largest liquor store and stock my new home bar.

Part one, what do you recommend we pick up? We will get all the obvious ones. My favorite spirit is rum, so there will be lots of rum for sure. I'm also very excited about getting my hands on some primo british gin. And absinthe is much more common here than it was in Chicago, so I'm excited to try a few different kinds.

Once we have that established, does anyone have any cocktails they have figured out that work well? The one I posted earlier (the raj) is a simple one but it went through like five different recipes before I settled on old monk and canton's. (It was originally an haitian rum with a ginger brandy called mohawk... which had the quality of de kuypers schnapps.) Anyway I haven't found Old Monk in London yet. At bars here I have been ordering Sazeracs, which is a treat because most chicago bars don't even have absinthe.

OK go.