tried to make a ‘quick’ falernum using the simmering method described here:
http://www.kaiserpenguin.com/remixed-astro-aku-aku/
i decided to do my own proportions, cutting way back on everything but the cloves, adding toasted almonds, and also four black peppercorns. the end result was, i thought, flat and dead, not like the lively stuff i’ve made before. i strained out the solids and threw them in some rum wih a little fresh ginger for a couple days, then mixed it and the syrup together. the flavor balance was improved, but overpowering and spicy, even a little sip completely numbed my mouth. maybe the black pepper idea was not sound.
so one last attempt at a fix, 2 oz sugar, 2 oz water, and 1/2 oz falernum. delicious! added another 1/2 oz of falernum, still delicious, but numbing, so i didn’t go any further. i added more lime zest, almonds and nutmeg to the base, will strain it out in a couple days.
so, i like this idea, a kind of higher-proof, shelf-stable falernum concentrate. just add to simple syrup and away you go!
gq had a nice article recently about alinea and the creative process:
http://www.gq.com/food-travel/restaurants-and-bars/201011/grant-achatz-alinea-dishes-cocktails
one of the dishes described in the article is a ‘whimsical riff on the traditional holiday roasted ham’–flavors of pineapple, cherry and clove. well, it turns out i had just bought and cut a pineapple, and also picked up a bottle of sour cherry syrup from the polish section of a local store. so i put together this drink which turned out to be delicious, though i don’t know if tequila was the best choice of spirit:
2 oz tequila
1 oz lime
1/2 oz sour cherry syrup
1/2 oz falernum
approx 1 inch pineapple cube, muddled
dash of maraschino
this ran a little sweet, maybe next time i’d cut back on the syrups.
i’m loving my big ice cubes. after i make a batched cocktail, i scoop out the little ice and put in the big ice to keep it cold and further dilution to a minimum.
a thing i do for chuckles, create fictional restaurants and make up cocktail menus for them. here is the latest concept:
http://sharkfeeder.com/pix/lathe/
i’ve been making some cocktails from that list in order to…i don’t know, extend the fantasy by recipe checking?
lathe sour negroni – i love it. the typical negroni is too cloying and cough syrupy to me, a little squeeze of lemon adds just the right balance. and aperol and gran classico is superior to campari as the bitter agent.
anaskokos – obviously just a pina colada with vodka instead of rum. (because in this particular restaurant fantasy one of my friends is a partner, and this friend hates rum. you might wonder why, since this is my fantasy, i don’t just fantasize about having friends with better taste. i ponder this every day, fake restaurant or not.) it works fine, but rum is better.
you know what else is nice? making this with a dark rum float. and furthermore? i realized that the term ‘float’ is all wrong. when cate makes a mai tai, she doesn’t pour a layer of dark rum on top, she pours the rum into a jigger, holds the jigger about an inch over the serving glass, then deftly FLOPS it onto the drink. the end result is a gradation. NOT separate layers.
what i am saying is that there should be a new term, ‘flop’. wrong: ’serve with a float of dark rum.’ right: ’serve with a flop of dark rum.’
what i am really saying is that there comes a time in a man’s life when he watches his dreams of notable eponomy–rockstardom, a theorem, a charitable organization–wither and perish. and he desperately grasps at and yelps about whatever filament of original notion, be it obscure cocktail terminology or an unusually misshapen poop.
and so, i would like to be known for the flop. and if not the flop, then for saying: i like my gin the way i like my women: boring, and doesn’t taste like a christmas tree unknown to dr. dre cold as hell you know what, let me work on this
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