visited jackie patterson at heaven’s dog.
cocktail 1: tequila, mezcal, allspice, ango
cocktail 2: rum, ginger, lime, egg white thing
cocktail 3: gin, lime thing (comped)
the cocktails were very good, but not as complex as the drinks i’ve had by her at the cuesa gatherings nor (seemingly) her competition-winning drinks.
i did get to talk to her [...]
pear liqueur experiments #2 and #3
1/2 oz pear liqueur
1/4 oz cachaca
1/4 oz lime
#2: 2 drops ango
#3: short drizzle of maraschino
#2 needed a dash of sugar. #3 was balanced, though too much maraschino for my taste. probably just right for the sophisticated cocktail enthusiast.
ango and maraschino would probably work together.
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went to adesso for a [...]
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 [...]
my rickhouse trip is summarized on yelp.
after i left (without getting my drink), i soul-searched a little, thinking, was i wrong to be upset? i try to be an understanding person. bartenders at hoppin, douchey bars don’t have too easy a job. maybe it pays well, who knows, but it is still [...]
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.
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 [...]
stopped by pizzaiolo after running some errands as i “just happened” to be in the area.
sfizio alla pesca – rum, lemon, peach, lemon verbena syrup
andina – pisco, lime, drambuie + something else i forgot to write down, maybe orange bitters
of note, cate used a half a peach per drink. that’s commitment!
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as per [...]
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 [...]
one of the tenets of the machinery of freedom is that the merits of a particular system (for example, a form of government) should be evaluated as if besieged by incompetence.* in other words, expect the worst. in other words, don’t say “democracy works as long as we keep people like dick cheney [...]
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 [...]
went into sf last night to go to porkapalooza. i seized the opportunity to bookend the pork party with drinks at heaven’s dog since i’ve heard so much about their cocktails and bartenders.
pre-pork cocktail (heaven’s dog): pisco apricot tropical (pisco, pineapple gomme, apricot brandy, lime, angostura bitters). clean, refreshing. beautiful aroma. i [...]
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 [...]
problem: you want to booze it up at an establishment not walkable from your house. some solutions: drive drunk (morally questionable), public transportation (time consuming), cab ($$$ consuming), designated driver (a drag for the driver/i dont have enough (teetotaler) friends).
i figured out (took me long enough) another solution: sober up before [...]
from this tablehopper knockoff newsletter, we learn of a bourbon and branch drink called elephant eyebrows which sounds like a basis for a good syrup: gin, garam masala, honey, lime, nutmeg.
2 oz dark rum
1/2 oz lime
3/8-3/4 oz falernum (depends on sweetness, my last batch was pretty dilute)
1 coin ginger
3 drops angostura bitters
muddle ginger, combine remaining ingredients, shake with ice, double strain.
minor story from cocktail night, one bartender (male) greeted another (female) with “hey, mama!” despite not being billy dee williams, he totally pulled [...]
pops is turning 70. the fam is rallying to put together a sushi party which is one of his favorite family activities.
i’m on drink detail and trying to come up with some sushi-appropriate cocktails.
idea one: vodka, cachaca, lime, honeydew syrup, shiso. maybe a drop or two of luxardo maraschino
idea two: vodka, gin, lemon, [...]
1 oz pineapple-vodka bounce
1 oz dark rum
1 oz lime
1 oz falernum
not bad, but it had a taste-illusion (what is that word?) of salt.
