cocktail notes » mui http://cocktailnotes.sharkfeeder.com dalliances in taste and escapism Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 idea: scotch and soda; or, the chaser; or, deconstruction http://cocktailnotes.sharkfeeder.com/2009/06/02/idea-scotch-and-soda-or-the-chaser-or-deconstruction/ http://cocktailnotes.sharkfeeder.com/2009/06/02/idea-scotch-and-soda-or-the-chaser-or-deconstruction/#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:13:26 +0000 tyler k http://cocktailnotes.sharkfeeder.com/?p=347 awhile ago i went to the zig zag cafe in seattle (where i had a corn n oil for the first time–goddamn, murray kills that drink) and ended up in conversation with a couple of catering chefs each with a taste for high-end scotch. i asked if they’d ever had any of murray’s cocktails (since that is what he’s known for) and they looked haughty and smug and said that mixing drinks is disrespectful to the distillers. they drank scotch straight or up, pure, the way the distillers intended for it to be tasted. i didn’t ask if they were raw food or sashimi chefs, or if they ate ketchup by the spoonful.

but pompous dildodery aside, dudes have a point. for example, as much as i love to mix with hendricks, i sometimes feel that doing so obscures many of the tasty subtleties that makes hendricks so special. but generally i’m not a fan of any straight spirit, much less scotch. so i have to take on faith the appeal of the unadulterated pour.

lately i’ve been considering the ‘deconstructed’ cocktail: base spirit in one glass, mixer in another. thinking: scotch with a chaser of lemonade. or lemon soda. or pineapple soda. or pineapple-rangpur-hibiscus soda dusted with shaved mui.

now who is the pompous dildo?!

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