Palate-cleansing drinks

[daverave999]

I've just read this article which talks about suitable drinks for cleansing your palate before smoking cigars. It seems the general idea is something weakly-flavoured containing water, alcohol or acid, preferably a combination of the three.

Do you have a pre-cigar drink to do this? If so, what is it? How effective is it? Did you hit upon it by accident or have deliberately chosen it to clean your mouth?

[snooky]

Good article Dave going to switch my columbian brew to bitter lemon ! in the evening i'll stick with a nice single malt and a dash of water.

[RhiannonBW]

Palate cleansing after a fine meal and before a great cigar seems to me to be missing the point a bit. It's the combination of flavours that makes the event special.

If I'm not having a cigar and the meal is towards the more average end of the scale I find an ice cold Limoncello does the job - but then I'm not a girl who allows herself to succumb to fashion.

Rhiannon x

[bnelly]

The article makes a clear distinction between palate cleansing & accompanying drinks.

For cleansing (on the rare occasions I do it) I stick to tea

[whisky77]

Tea.

Agree with Bnelly on this one.Real tea with nothing added cleans things up nicely.

[Pantomimehorse]

never really thought about this but will give the article a read thanks

[Lascaux]

i can see a mass order of bitter lemon at the mega herf this saturday

[Olls]

Hmmm, nice article, thanks for pointing it out.

If I really want to concentrate on the cigar I find that a glass of coolish water really refreshes the palette mid-smoke but I'll give that cocktail he mentions a blast at some point.