Bootlegs sound like a Vodka MojitoMy wife likes making Bootlegs and beer margaritas. I love her Bootlegs but find margaritas too sweet for my taste.
Oh and wine. We sail on Lake Pepin and last year we found a line of wines called "Le Pepin" at Trader Joes. It's not great, but it's pretty good for the price and it's kind of neat to serve it to guests. We bought a case of chardonnay and a case of pinot noir and we're just about out. We usually have a boxed chard or pinot grigio in the fridge and special bottles come with us from time to time.
After the sail is when I break out the bourbon. Lately it's been Buffalo Trace because it's the only reasonably priced bourbon at the liquor store by the marina (and I quite like it), but I'll bring special bottles from time to time if I think our guests would appreciate it, such as Stagg Jr., Maker's Cask Strength or EH Taylor Single Barrel.
Mojito (/moʊˈhiːtoʊ/; Spanish: [moˈxito]) is a traditional Cuban highball.
Traditionally, a mojito is a cocktail that consists of five ingredients: white rum, sugar (traditionally sugar cane juice), lime juice, soda water, and mint. Its combination of sweetness, citrus, and mint flavors is intended to complement the rum, and has made the mojito a popular summer drink. The cocktail has a relatively low alcohol content (about 10% alcohol by volume).
History
Havana, Cuba, is the birthplace of the Mojito, although the exact origin of this classic cocktail is the subject of debate. One story traces the Mojito to a similar 16th century drink known as "El Draque", after Sir Francis Drake. In 1586, after his successful raid at Cartagena de Indias Drake's ships sailed towards Havana but there was an epidemic of dysentery and scurvy on board. It was known that the local South American Indians had remedies for various tropical illnesses, so a small boarding party went ashore on Cuba and came back with ingredients for an effective medicine. The ingredients were aguardiente de caña (translated as burning water, a crude form of rum made from sugar cane) mixed with local tropical ingredients: lime, sugarcane juice, and mint. Lime juice on its own would have significantly prevented scurvy and dysentery, and tafia/rum was soon added as it became widely available to the British (ca. 1650). Mint, lime and sugar were also helpful in hiding the harsh taste of this spirit. While this drink was not called a Mojito at this time, it was the original combination of these ingredients.
There is another very similar cocktail called the South Side or South Side Fizz made with gin instead of rum