Crabtacular 5: Tequila Mockingcrab
Update: Photos of Crabtacular 5 are being tagged with ‘crabtacular5′ on Flickr. Thanks to Ash Ponders for uploading an awesome set o’ photos!
We held our annual crab party yesterday and it was a total blast! Christine and I served all 200 pounds of dungeness crabs, 30 lbs of smoked pork, and our guests brought an amazing array of other yummy edibles and drinkables!
Thank you to everyone who could make it! It was incredible!
Guillermo Erickson Sauza shared a lot of his amazing Tequila Los Abuelos / Tequila Fortaleza. Certainly my favorite heartlands tequila. Distribution is relatively limited. If you are in the Cupertino area, you can purchase Los Abuelos / Fortaleza at Coach House Liquors.
Julio Bermejo made the awesome T-shirts and whipped up batch after batch of his famous margaritas. Visit Julio at Tommy’s Mexican Restaurant in San Francisco — world’s best tequila bar and an excellent Yucatan home style restaurant, too.
Lilianna, Julio’s wife and member of the Camarena family, shared her family’s El Tesoro de Don Felipe tequila. Made in Arandas, Jalisco, El Tesoro is easily my favorite highlands tequila. It is deliciously spicy and incredibly smooth.
Julio used Tequila Arette blanco to make the margaritas. An awesome tequila that can be found in most decent liquor stores.
I also thiefed out a bit of tequila from my barrel. It is Pueblo Viejo Reposado that has been sitting in the barrel for 6 months.
It is surprisingly delicious; lots of caramely wood flavor with a bit of bite on the finish (due to the young age).
I’ll need to bottle it soon as it is “done”. Now that I have thiefed out about a liter of the 4.5 in the barrel, I might just refill the barrel and let it sit for a while longer.
Truly a legendary party.
February 24th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
WHAT A DIVINE, WONDERFUL, DECADENT, FABU, LOVELY, DELICIOUS, DRINKS WERE THE BEST, FABU, PERECT, CRAB WAS TACULAR, FABU, BEAUTIFUL, TEQUILA WAS PERFECTION, FABU EVENING.
I am through shouting now. Our first crabtacular and we’ll be there next year! Brother Bill, Sis-I-L Chrissy and our Dodgie – thank you for a lovely lovely vaca. We had the BEST BEST time!
xoxoxoannoxoxoxoxo
February 25th, 2008 at 1:01 am
Damn! That looks awesome! The 200 hundred pounds of crab I heard stories of would be wonderful. Crab and tequila, a great combination.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:03 am
This was an epic party and I feel honored to have imbibed tequila with so many other cool people in the Bumgarner Eichler.
My head didn’t hurt the next day as much as I thought it would, even though I don’t really remember what happened towards the end. This truly indicates the quality of the event.
Bill & Christine, you did a fantastic job. Although I don’t envy the cleanup ….
February 25th, 2008 at 3:07 am
Sounds pretty amazing. Sad again to have missed it. The distance – it hurts.
February 25th, 2008 at 5:10 am
Awesome. I thouht of little else this weekend and even flirted with the notion of driving to the airport. Hopefully next time I’ll be in the right place at the right time!
February 25th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Looks like a legendary party. If it is held next year, I’ll have to fly into town for it just to takes pictures of 200 lbs of crab.
P.S. I hope you took up a collection to pay for all the crab and tequila.
February 26th, 2008 at 5:56 am
Great party, great food, great company.
Also, kudos for the tarp engineering.
-jcr
February 27th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
You need to stop having parties like this or we’re going to have to pack up and move out west (again). I can’t stand missing these opportunites to eat myself into oblivion. I am ravenous just thinking about it!
February 28th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Nice job, bbum. Your crab party ruined it for everyone.
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February 28th, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Adam, you beat me to it! I *just* made the connection and rushed over here to comment.
February 29th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Best party yet. Even if we did get busted.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Bill & Crissy- We had a lovely time at the Crabtalular! We had to leave around dusk to make it home, but while we were there we had lots of yummy foodz and drinkz.
Lovely to find that pocket of Eichlers too, a little slice of home in san jose.