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 [...]
some years ago, jp and i had a great first course at potager: some kind of delicious tomato tart that was savory, but sweet enough to be dessert. and so i have been wanting to try to make a tomato drink that captures that salty-sweet balance.
i thought i might first try to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
tried to integrate peach into two cocktails:
almond-peach old fashioned
2 oz bourbon
1/4 small peach
1 tsp amaretto
2 dashes angostura bitters
1 dash peach bitters
this didn’t work for me nor did it work for anyone but stuntman b who is a bourbon slut. i tried to patch with a muddled cherry which was an improvement. it added [...]
after round one of experimenting, here is my manhattan recipe:
1 oz rye (rittenhouse)
1 oz citrus-vanilla-infused bourbon (evan williams)
3/4 oz sweet vermouth (noilly prat)
1/4 oz cherry liqueur (luxardo)
1 dash ango
orange twist (this is probably wrong)
[edit: i forgot to add, this is excellent]
what’s so wrong with the cosmo? the violet hour shuns them. so does bourbon and branch. the other day at pizzaiolo, some guy ordered a grey goose cosmo and cate said ‘we don’t have grey goose and we don’t do cosmos’ in a kind of mean and scary way! i pooped [...]
five:
basil gimlet – really delicious but the basil could have looked better. just for cosmetic reasons if nothing else.
unnamed drink – bardude comped me a drink in exchange for being a guinea pig. a brandy sour made with vanilla sugar, with an aged rum float. excellent, though there was a slight [...]
juhu palm: gin, coconut milk, kaffir lime leaf, birds eye chili, spanked curry leaf. very good, but not any better than what you would expect from kaffir lime and coconut. was kind of like a spiked tom yum gai. also had a weird wet-towel aftertaste. maybe the glass was wiped down [...]
1 oz bourbon
1 oz whisker’s blake tawny port
1 tsp frangelico
pretty good, but for some reason whenever i make drinks of this nature (eg, manhattan) they turn out thin. too much or too small ice? shaking vessel not chilled?
in defiance of my previous ‘realization’, i decided to not be a penis-flavored drunk-driving pox on society and instead rely on public transportation.
well, it might have less to do with an ethical epiphany and more to do with the discovery that ac transit runs more frequently than they did in my youth. [...]
i suggested to jp that since she was nice enough to ‘let’ me go out the other night, she should get her night out also. she opted for luka’s because their fries are her fave. (2nd place: a cote) one thing pretty rad about lukas is, at least tonight, they had five, [...]
sweet potato, bourbon, vanilla, orange, curry
as mentioned in the intro post, david wolowidnyk makes a cocktail called “pie” which contains pumpkin-infused vodka. so, this would be similar. i’m thinking maybe the infusion could use both raw and roasted sweet potato. or maybe boil and strain some sweet potato, and use the ‘broth’ [...]
