Category: Recipes
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The Sazerac
When you hear about New Orleans (NOLA) any number of images likely pop in to your head. For me I think about NOLA’s rich cocktail history. Nothing sums up this cocktail history better than the Sazerac. Recently named the official cocktail of New Orleans (after a proposal to make it the official drink of Louisiana…
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The Old Fashioned – A Drink of Simplicity
This week’s experimentation with the Old Fashioned has been very rewarding. This is a drink I first mixed up only a couple month’s ago and is now, without question, one of my favorites. As I mentioned in yesterday’s post the drink is simplicity at its finest and truly sums up the classic definition of what…
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The Old Fashioned – Embury’s Version
I whipped up an Embury Old Fashioned on Monday evening. Despite the variables in the recipe the drink turned out to be very good. I chose to go with the following quantities: Embury’s Old Fashioned: 2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon 1 tsp Simple Syrup 3 Dashes Angostura Bitters Twist of Lemon Embury got this one…
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The Old Fashioned
Well we’ve reached the last of Embury’s Six Basic drinks, the Old Fashioned. Per Wikipedia, the Old Fashioned is thought to have been created as a Bourbon Whiskey cocktail at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, KY. Then popularized by distiller Colonel James E. Pepper and later brought to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.…
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The Manhattan
The Manhattan is like the Martini’s deeper more complex brother. Said to have been created in the 1860’s by a bartender named Black at a bar on Broadway, the drink is a simple combination of Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth and Bitters. This drink is also known by some as a drinking man’s cocktail and the king…