Just like shrinking creme eggs and wagon wheels, I’m sure advent calendars were filled with a lot more chocolate than the measly offerings you get fleeced for these days. It’s been a while since I was more resentful of having to part with a tenner to obtain two ‘Frozen’-themed calendars as I did last week, safe in the knowledge that the kids would only fight over whose was whose, generating more tears than happiness at scoffing the fake chocolate inside. At least when the dog nicks them off the table and eats the lot in one go I’ll know that there won’t be enough theobromine in them to make him ill. Small mercies. Anyway, advent calendars don’t need to be this way…
Hallelujah for Drinks by the Dram and their selection of boozy advent calendars. Just like a regular advent calendar, except that behind each door isn’t a wafer of plastic chocolate, but instead a 30ml wax-sealed bottle of liquor. It’s a spiffing idea, 30ml being precisely the volume of spirit one needs to zone out of the kids fighting for 10 minutes. There’s a bunch on offer, depending on your preferred tipple. As tempting as drinking a shot of absinthe every day for a month was, I plumped for rum in all its versatile glory. It would be mean to spoil the surprise as to what is behind each door, although their website does let you take a peek if you can’t resist. I did, and I know I’m not going to be disappointed. There is a bit of everything, from a lovely white that’ll make a lovely daiquiri, right through to some very special sippers indeed. There’s even a couple of curveballs in there to keep you on your toes.
Drinks by the Dram Rum Advent Calendar is the perfect grown-up work up to Christmas. Top marks.
Rating: ★★★★★
The full range of calendars are available to buy from Master of Malt
★: Terrible, only drink for a dare.
★★: Meh, not undrinkable but best left alone.
★★★: Reasonable, middle of the road.
★★★★: Tasty stuff, well worth seeking out.
★★★★★: Incredible, booze doesn’t get better than this. You need a bottle in your life.
Rum Advent Calendar from Drinks by the Dram
Hallelujah for Drinks by the Dram and their selection of boozy advent calendars. Just like a regular advent calendar, except that behind each door isn’t a wafer of plastic chocolate, but instead a 30ml wax-sealed bottle of liquor. It’s
a spiffing idea, 30ml being precisely the volume of spirit one needs to zone out of the kids fighting for 10 minutes. There’s a bunch on offer, depending on your preferred tipple. As tempting as drinking a shot of absinthe every day for a month was, I plumped for rum in all its versatile glory. It would be mean to spoil the surprise as to what is behind each door, although their website does let you take a peek if you can’t resist. I did, and I know I’m not going to be disappointed. There is a bit of everything, from a lovely white that’ll make a lovely daiquiri, right through to some very special sippers indeed. There’s even a couple of curveballs in there to keep you on your toes.
The full range of calendars are available to buy from Master of Malt
★: Terrible, only drink for a dare.
★★: Meh, not undrinkable but best left alone.
★★★: Reasonable, middle of the road.
★★★★: Tasty stuff, well worth seeking out.
★★★★★: Incredible, booze doesn’t get better than this. You need a bottle in your life.