Category: Whiskey-based
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Teresa’s Desert Island Bourbon
The question put before us by my brother was quite simple for me (and my brother) to answer. If you are reading this blog, you are likely accustomed to long winded tales about the good booze, so settle in. While the challenge was to discuss a “desert island bourbon”, I prefer the TROPICAL island bourbon,…
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Desert Island Bourbon
I was sitting in my chair having my usual nightcap and contemplating how the news feed on my phone seems to be alarmingly full of opinion pieces about bourbon earnestly provided by a whole range of sources from the venerable to the seriously dubious. Most are along the theme of “the best XYZ bourbon”, whether…
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Mon Nouvel Ami
This is another in our new series of cocktails from David Lebovitz‘s Drinking French…. This one is actually David’s riff on a classic cocktail invented by famed Parisian bartender Harry MacElhone of Harry’s New York Bar, appearing in his 1922 edition of Harry’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails. MacElhone’s orignal Old Pal called for equal parts…
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Orange Season
It’s currently orange season here in California, and our orange tree has been fruitful. This poses a bit of a challenge as orange juice is not an easy juice to make cocktails with. It tends to be too sweet and doesn’t have a flavor that pairs well with other strong flavors. You tend to wind…
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An autumnal tipple and a bonus…
B was in the mood for something “autumnal” when she ran across this little concoction on the Imbibe website. They found the Sinsear, the brainchild of Yvette Leeper-Bueno, owner of Vinatería in Harlem, in the Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook. Curiously, no mention was made of the name; sinsear is Irish for ancestor? At any rate,…
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The Derby Cocktail
B was thumbing through Ted Haigh‘s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, when she ran across what she thought might be a tasty tipple in The Derby. A quick perusal of the ingredients reveals that it’s awfully similar to one of our all time favorite cocktails, the Oriental Cocktail. Basically put half as much bourbon as you…
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Blackthorn (Irish Variation)
Astute readers will recall the we previously covered another version of the Blackthorn Cocktail, but which was gin based. In fact probably the original namesake was called the Blackthorn after the plum-bearing shrub that produces the sloe berry (from which we get sloe gin). Philip Greene‘s book The Manhattan … provides this version which he…
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The Mother-in-Law Cocktail
Today’s post is an homage to that most unjustly maligned group, mother-in-laws. As exemplified by today’s post, they are, by and large, a fine and noble set. I found today’s cocktail while perusing Chuck Taggart‘s GumboPages.com (credit given, lest I be ” étoufféed and served to Dr. Lecter, with a nice Chianti.”). This…
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The Liberal
Devotees of the blog will doubtless know the esteem in which I hold the Manhattan, which is why we rather assiduously avoid frivolous knockoffs. Devotees, however, will also know my predilection for quirky and esoteric booze, hence the conflict. B & I wound up with a bottle of Torani Amer, a version of the original…
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Champagne Whiskey Punch
Summer is the season for festive and refreshing (if slightly frivolous) imbibing with great friends. I originally made this frivolously festive tipple a couple years back for the adherents of the Bacchic Villa after finding the recipe in an issue of Imbibe Magazine. Apparently this marvelous potation is the creation of one Joy Richard, a…