2 tbsp. honeyDissolve honey in warm water. Mix liquid honey, lemon juice and rum together in a tall jug. Then add mint leaves and leave it to stand while brewing the tea. Pour boiling water into a jug and steep the tea bag for 5 minutes. Remove the tea bag and chill the tea. Pour the chilled tea and dry ginger ale into the rum mixture, and stir well.
To serve: Pour over one ice cube in each glass
The Saint James Drink of the week: Agricole Rum made from 100% pure sugar cane”
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The World’s Hardest-Drinking Countries
Luxembourg, where residents pound down 15.5 liters of alcohol in a year, on average, ranks first. Close behind are France (14.2 liters), Ireland (also 14.2 liters, a lot more of it from beer), Hungary (12 liters) and the Czech Republic (11.8 liters).
A 2006 study by the Weinberg Group, a consulting firm that reported findings of several published health officials on alcohol use in Europe, showed that Europe generally has greater tolerance and acceptance for drinking than the rest of the world does, with alcohol used more in social settings and at family meals.
“A number of social, political and cultural factors have been reported to influence drinking behavior,” the report concluded. Among them: traditions that have young and old imbibing around the dinner table and at social events, and varying levels of alcohol taxes in different countries.
Luxembourg taxes beer at just .02 euros per pint, lower than any European country other than Cyprus and Latvia. It has no excise tax on wine. The European Union is generally very friendly to the continent’s vintners, supporting minuscule taxes in order to support consumer purchases. According to reports, the E.U. deemed illegal a recent attempt by Sweden to impose a higher tax, asserting levies on wine cannot exceed those on beer, lest they hurt the domestic wine businesses while, in this case, benefiting Sweden’s brewers.
But taxes are apparently just a small piece of the picture. When Denmark turned to higher alcohol taxes a decade ago, the result was only a limited drop in demand. The country still ranks seventh in per capita alcohol consumption worldwide, at 11.5 liters per year.
Meanwhile, a survey in the publication Alcohol Research & Health shows that 94% of 15-year-olds in the Czech Republic identify themselves as drinkers, with almost half saying they’ve drank beer at least three times over the past month. Drinking figures are similar elsewhere in Europe–96% in Denmark, 89% in Ireland and 91% in the U.K.
The Czechs, who after all invented Pilsner, lead the world in annual beer consumption with over 150 liters per person. That’s about twice the U.S. rate. A potential reason for the extra drinking on the east side of the Atlantic: No country making the list has a legal drinking age over 18; with some as low as 16 for beer. The minimum legal age in the U.S. is 21.
Not all surveys on drinking frequency over the years necessarily match each other’s findings. A 2004 study commissioned by the World Health Organization, for example, had countries like Russia and Switzerland sneaking past some on the OECD list, like Belgium and Australia. But the results were mostly similar.
anthony
February 7, 2010 at 10:14 AM