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Aguardiente taste test - yecccch

OK - so I am a little late in reporting on the taste of Aguardiente. My fiancee brought a bottle (clear) in August and we got married in September. Then one day I tried it and I tried it without any mixer - It basically has no taste but my throat could feel the alcohol going down (just like with schnapps.)

So! Sorry but I give it no thumbs or toes. I do like a shot of Schnapps once in a while but the Aguardiente had no taste (for me.)
Should I try it with a mixer? what?
Viva la Aguila

By rjstuff on Oct 16, 2005, 08:47 in Friendly Talkzone.

quindioman says on Oct 16, 2005, 08:52:

rjstuff There's no mixer that can disguise that distinct taste.
I'm with you on this one man.....Guaro might be the nation's most popular tipple but I can't stand the stuff, I think it's the licorice/aniseed taste but it's HORRIBLE....i've always been more at home with the viejo ron caldas or better yet a nice cold Poker...now we're talking!

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Mr. Hollywood says on Oct 16, 2005, 09:12:

No flavor? I can't imagine Aguardiente with no taste. The problem with aguardiente is that it has a very strong anise taste, like a milder ouzo or something. It's the kind of flavor people either love or hate. I hate it.

Are you sure you weren't drinking guaro, which is basically pure cane liquor.

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Gator says on Oct 16, 2005, 09:34:

You Damn... sure can't sip it. No mixer is usually used You have to knock it back. Definitely it's not a sipping drink. here is a song in Colombia. loosely translated that goes, "Give me an aguardiente, made of the sugarcane of my valleys and the anise of my mountains. Don't serve me a drink from abroad which is expensive and doesn't taste as good."

I like it but then it is, perhaps, an acquired taste. It doesn't bother me, until I try to stand up.

"Bene, cum Latine nescias, nolo manus meas in te maculare" .

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 10:50:

mixed with aguapanela, and vo mixed it with aguapanela, and voile you will have what we call Canelazo :)
the more aguardiente you put the stronger the canelazo jejje

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Crazy4Cali says on Oct 16, 2005, 11:10:

I don't know... ..after the 2nd or 3rd caneca it tastes OK to me.

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Oct 16, 2005, 11:35:

I like aguardiente but I certainly found it pretty vile at the beginning. Yes, it is an acquired taste, at least for many foreigners. I don't like ouzo either. Tasteless? No way, with that distinctive anise/licorice flavor. I think it is a bit too sweet for my tastes, but I can always appreciate a caneca of Blanco del Valle, especially when the snow starts falling.

Cheers,
Desi

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

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Hunter says on Oct 16, 2005, 11:46:

I hate aguardiente Can't think of anything else to say, apart from heading.

Hunter

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:01:

I am with hunter on this one I can't stand the taste of aguardiente, mind that I don't like any spirit at all if you can call Aguardiente "spirit" apart from sambuca or Grand marnier.
And I hate beer it's smell like wee

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quindioman says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:08:

Aguardiente is so good for you that they use it as a purgant.
Method.....get up in the morning....walk past the bathroom and straight to the kitchen.......grind some garlic (1 or 2 cloves is fine)......take the garlic and shove it down your gob......wash it down with a shot of guaro.
So good for you your stomach will tell you how effective it is after 5 minutes :-p

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Monpirri says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:08:

Aguardiente for me, please I am not a drinker, but the distaste comments posted here made me go and find out for myself, I opened a bottle of Aguardiente Antioqueño.
I found the taste smooth and pleasant. The bottle says 375 ML. 29% alcohol, Aguardiente Antioqueño.
I am pretty sure the bottle has not been tapered because it had a wrap-around label.
Next time you are going to have a shot of Aguardiente think of it as "Sabor, Cuerpo y Calor"

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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quindioman says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:10:

monpirri if i wanted some sabor, cuerpo y calor i think I would visit la natatulia ;-p

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:18:

Quindi A good laxative them, uhmm next time I want to loose weight i will try jejje
I better have chicha

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quindioman says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:21:

kat not so much a laxative, but last time i tried the above I keeled over and thought I'd poisoned myself......the pain was excrutiating....dicen que ese purgante es muy efectivo pa las lombrices pero a mi me mando pa la cama.

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:26:

And I wonder who gave you that prescription eh? I'm sure the lombrices got drunk,
I remembered when I was little my mum used to gave us purgante too, it was horrible we were violently sick, how on earth they did that, and still many people in colombia do it, my husband said it's not need. I would not do it to my kids, I still remembered the taste of that purgante it was powdery and you mixed with I don't know what and the color was a kind of greenish yuk!!

Just because you had a big pipa and skinny legs and arms they though you had lombrices :(

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rjstuff says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:39:

monpirri1 - thats exactly what my bottle says The bottle says 375 ML. 29% alcohol - Aguardiente Antioqueño. Its a white lable with some red and a little green and it has a gold border around the lable. It is clear in color and my wife told me that they don't make it from anise anymore and I couldn't feel an anise taste at all (or sugarcane) - its pretty tasteless like vodka or gin when taken straight. Not hard to drink but not great either - so monpirri is correct that it is smooth (not for me though.)It didn't have a laxative effect either - thank God!
Thus ends my curiousity with Aguardiente - I have 3/4th of a bottle left; if I meet any Colombians I will offer it to them or maybe it can be used in cooking? Any Iron chef Colombianos out there with a recipe for Aguardiente? Jajaja

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Desideria (Moderator) (Trustee board) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:44:

aguardiente without anis de mis montañas? It shouldn't be called aguardiente any longer. Too bad. It's the end of an era.

Desi
No cheers, just grieving)

A fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:49:

rjstuff make canelazo, it's good for the winter month it keeps you warm
Recipe
3 cups of agua de panela
1 and half cups of aguardiente
i spoon of lemon juice
and 6 sticks of Cinamon
En un recipiente que pueda ir al baño maria, combine todos los ingredientes. coloque el recipiente sobre agua inviendo y caliente sin dejar hervir.

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adrimm (Moderator) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:50:

Dear God Kat That would keep anyone warm!

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Monpirri says on Oct 16, 2005, 12:53:

rjstuff Yepp, it is the same bottle, colorless and no bad taste!
Remember, you have to be in the mood to enjoy it more. Think of it as Las Chicas Aguila, "Sabor, Cuerpo y Calor"

Viva las colombianas

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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Caballista says on Oct 17, 2005, 08:48:

fiesta de canelazo Hace algunos inviernos (frrrrriiiiiooooo) tuve la maravillosa idea de hacer una fiesta de canelazo, en el estudio de un escultor amigo mio en Lower East side (NY); estuve toda la noche sirviendo canelazo y todos lo querían mas furete cada vez, por último decidieron llamarlo "aguapanelazo" jajajajajaja. Pero nos divertimos muchisimo.
Buenos recuerdos.

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kat1 (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Oct 17, 2005, 11:07:

A nice tip, put the rim of the glass in a bowl of lemon juice and then in another bowl with just sugar leave it dry and then pour the canelazo in the glass without wetting the rim of the glass and decorate with a cinamon stick

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Monpirri says on Oct 17, 2005, 14:12:

Two Canelazos for me, please... Please send me an invitation next time you are going to have another Canelazo party.
I would love to visit again the big apple.

Ciao

"Anyone who still thinks that Colombia is not a gastronomical paradise needs to have their head examined." Darloup

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