http://caffeinatedcalm.blogspot.com/2009/03/tequila-beyond-frozen-margs-and-shots.html
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honey-paprika foam is delicious but doesn’t belong on a bloody mary, or maybe doesn’t belong in my mouth with a bloody mary, or maybe a bloody mary doesn’t belong in my mouth at all.
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i’m not sure what i’m doing with this blog, or this hobby.
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 [...]
improved sunrise take #2
1/2 oz tequila
1/2 oz lillet
1/4 oz luxardo orange
this is not very good at all. made drinkable (but not good) with a couple dashes of lemon.
here’s the bourbon and branch ‘improved sunrise‘.
loma bonita burner take #2
1 oz tequila
1/4 oz lemon
1/4 oz syrup
1 chunk pineapple
1 sliver jalepeno
its possible that the jalepeno had been [...]
draft 1:
1/2 oz pineapple-jalepeno infused tequila
1/2 oz california chardonnay
1/4 oz lemon
1/4 syrup
1 chunk pineapple
1 sliver jalepeno
too much wine, too much sweetener. heat level just right. has promise.
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 [...]
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 [...]
balance
the key to a good cocktail is BALANCE. here’s a basic cocktail recipe, from the “sour” family (eg, margarita, cosmo, sidecar, daiquiri, etc) to illustrate that point.
basic cocktail 1
2 oz base spirit (approx 80 proof)
1 oz acid (usually lemon or lime)
1 oz 1:1 simple syrup (that is, 1 part water, 1 part sugar, shaken [...]
