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 [...]
…hotsy totsy! this place has been around forever, but has recently been taken over and fixed up a bit (while still preserving the old school vibe) by a husband and wife team who know their cocktails.
they have a facebook fan page, james hetfield is a fan!
and they bring in a taco truck [...]
i didn’t write down the drink components, and t-rex’s online drink menu is 404.
cocktail #1 – grapefruit, thyme, lemon balm syrup (?)
cocktail #2 – watermelon, cucumber, spicy-heat
in both cases the flavors were very good. but, cocktail #1, was warm and not strained. wtf people. cocktail #2, wasn’t cold, kind of watery.
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 [...]
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 [...]
swizzle from cafe rouge. rum, falernum, lime, pineapple, ango. was ok. velvet falernum is pretty lame as it turns out.
tina modotti from pizzaiolo. tequila, grapefruit, lime, aperol. really good. maybe i need to procure some aperol.
2 oz rum
1 oz red grapefruit
1/2 oz lime
version #3: 1″ x 1″ x 2″ very ripe pineapple core, cut into pieces
version #4: 1/8th of a small ripe peach
1 tsp sugar
short drizzle maraschino liqueur
4 drops grapefruit bitters
muddle fruit with sugar. combine remaining ingredients, shake without ice for 20 seconds, shake with ice for 20 seconds. [...]
my updated strawberry daiquiri was such a success, i thought maybe the formula could work with any fruit. here was attempt #2:
2 oz rum
1 1/2 oz grapefruit juice
1/2 oz lime juice
mango, approx 1″ square
1 tsp sugar
short drizzle of maraschino liqueur
was this any good? not really, but input, not formula or mixer, was the [...]
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. [...]
ok, look. strawberries are in season, and the market shelves are buckling under the weight of fine local product. they are a perfectly delicious fruit, and i need to stop hating them. hate is really just a perverted form of love. hate = love + weaponry.
so i thought i’d [...]
i recently had a half dozen or so tangerines whose skin was on the cusp of leather, and i thought it would be a good idea to preserve them by mashing them with sugar and a little vodka. i think it worked. im not dead yet. and it produced a lot of [...]
nothing ruins a good cocktail like a mouthful of salt. the practice must have originated in a time or place where the prevailing culinary issue was how best to obscure the taste of rotting meat with eucalyptus leaves and fish guts.
we are beyond that now…so let’s act like it!
if you are going to rim [...]
