chop suey punch #1
4 oz aged rum
4 oz dark rum
4 oz 10 cane rum
4 oz vodka
3 oz sugar
1 1/2 oz cherry liqueur
1/2 oz maraschino liqueur
4 oz lime
4 oz lemon
2 oz orange juice
4 oz celestial seasonings bengal spice tea (strong)
more cleaning of the booze cabinet.
i’ve been craving tiki drinks lately…need to haul my ass back to [...]
ive been paying our nannies (aka my parents) in booze, so there’s been a lot of experimentation lately.
2 oz gin
1 oz meyer lemon
2 tsp d’arbo raspberry-rhubarb jam
3 dashes peychaud bitters
great, would def make again.
2 oz rum
1 oz lime
1 oz simple syrup
3 dashes peychaud bitters
1 pinch ground coffee
next time i would go 3/4 oz for sweet [...]
maybe this blog is dying or dead. i no longer have enough time to do much respectable drinking, much less the time to write about it. so, dear readers, please leave an obituary in the comments. what has this blog meant to you and your loved ones? what wisdom will [...]
i have been hella remiss about filing a vancouver trip report. hell yeah midgets, i kicked it royal up in v-town!
now, i have lost my notes on drinks, and so am mostly constructing from memory. but here are some drinks that stood out:
five stars – calvados with a little lemon, caramel [...]
for my fam’s chinese new year dinner i decided to make a version of scott beattie’s awesome waverly place echo:
1 1/2 oz rum
1/2 oz mandarin-tangerine infused vodka
1/2 oz meyer lemon
1/4 oz lime
3/4 oz chinese five spice + kaffir makrut lime leaf syrup
muddled kumquat (seeds removed)
muddled tangerine slice
dash orange bitters
lemon twist
five-spice-makrut-leaf syrup
1 T five-spice
1 cup sugar
1 [...]
been on a few social outings lately. difficult and rare, these days.
rickhouse:
blue and red smash – bourbon, lemon, red and blue berries. excellent.
kentucky buck – bourbon and ginger/ginger beer, other stuff. also excellent.
favela – cachaca, lemon, coffee. not very good.
some kind of sling – gin, cherry heering, other stuff. also not [...]
went to beretta with the inlaws. got two cocktails:
il gitano (amaro, lime, pineapple gomme, grapefruit, bitters). excellent. interesting use of amaro as a base spirit.
the acadian (rye, sloe gin, lemon, honey, absinthe, rosemary). also great. delicate hand with the absinthe which can easily overpower a drink. i didn’t detect [...]
elderquat 75
1/2 oz gin
1/4 oz lime
1/4 oz ikea elderflower syrup
1/2 kumquat
2 oz champagne
seed and muddle the kumquat. add gin, lime, syrup. dry shake* and strain. top with 2 oz champagne. drop in a candied kumquat.
*i made and chilled a batch of the base mixture ahead of time.
the flavors [...]
2 oz bourbon (evan williams, infused with citrus and vanilla)
1 1/2 oz apple cider (trader joe’s)
3/4 oz tawny port (whisker’s blake)
1/4 oz lemon
1 dash ango
version 1 made with 1/2 oz lemon. the above version is much better, and is quite delicious. i wanted to add muddled ginger, but there was none usable on [...]
smugglers cove: got a ‘dead reckoning‘ (rum, lemon, pineapple, maple, tawny port, vanilla liqueur, bitters, soda). good but not as amazing as i’d hoped or expected. i didn’t get anything from the port or maple syrup or vanilla liqueur. ‘merely’ a delicious pineapple-rum drink.
incredible menu, and a fun, cozy space. [...]
went to the independent spirits expo last week. at some point i got fed up with the crowds and left before i could taste it all.
some highlights:
loft liqueurs (deep, clean flavors)
j witty (like a subtle falernum variant)
pc7 (though i know nothing of scotch)
north shore gin no. 11
square one botanical (basically a light, modern gin)
hangar [...]
2 oz vodka
1 oz lemon
3/4 oz orgeat
1/4 medium peach, muddled
2 dashes peach bitters
made this first. tasted good. though i’m starting to not love the taste of raw almonds in the orgeat (from a batch made this afternoon, with orange flower water, for the first time). i need to get apricot kernels.
so then:
1/2 [...]
after getting home from our denver trip, i wanted a simple, clean, easy-to-make drink. and so:
2 oz grapefruit vodka
1 oz lime
1 oz ikea elderflower syrup
hit the spot, though the vodka didn’t have the same crisp smell and taste as it did last week. the day before our trip i strained out the fruit [...]
i was on cocktail duty for a family sushi party last night.
2 oz lillet
0.75 oz grapefruit vodka (i put half the peel and flesh of a grapefruit in a pint mason jar, filled with vodka, sat for two days)
this is a good proportion for me. man-drinkers might reverse the proportions (the standard [...]
i’m not ready to spring for a whole bottle of charbay grapefruit, so i put 4 oz of cheap vodka in a jar with three long ribbons of red grapefruit peel for about four days. excellent.
then i mixed about 1 part grapefruit vodka to 3 or 4 parts lillet. excellenter.
last word variant
1/2 oz gin
1/2 oz lime
1/4 oz maraschino
1/4 oz green chartreuse
1/4 oz syrup
this works. am thinking you can sub lychee or ikea elderflower syrup for the simple syrup. working title “ellipsis, lychee” omg im a dork
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o-positive (renamed because ‘penta-tonic’ makes it sound like either it contains tonic water, or that its made [...]
muddled a quarter of a medium-large yellow peach, tart but flavorful. mixed in 3 oz of punt e mes, double strained into a jar as the base mixture.
then mixed a bunch of mini-cocktails using 1/2 oz of the base mixture and 1/4 oz of a spirit. the spirits i used and my tasting [...]
had three cocktails at nopa:
escondido romano – chipotle vodka, cynar, dimmi, cava
valkyrie – aquavit, aperol, vermouth (dolin blanc), sunshine (saffron) bitters
sherry shrub – manzanilla sherry, huckleberry shrub
i admired these more than i liked them. what i mean is: none were boring. all were perfectly balanced. the flavors were new, interesting. but [...]
part 3 in the “better know your neighborhood bars” series…
jp, kue, and i went to this place for dinner. i knew from a previous scouting that the cocktail menu was two parts boring one part nightmare: one of the drinks contains spiced apple puree (from a bottle no less) which, for reasons posted previously, [...]
went on a shopping spree at ledgers and bevmo, picked up some new things:
– regan’s orange bitters
– green chartreuse
– j pear liqueur
– sagitaba cachaca
– fever tree tonic water
gin and tonic
2 oz hendricks
2 oz fever tree
i wasn’t impressed with fever tree, cate’s tonic is far superior.
this drink was improved [...]
