Month: November 2008

  • Egg Nog

    I’m going to take a bit of a break from the rigors of cocktail hacking this week.  But I won’t be stopping my work entirely.  This week I’m going to make homemade Egg Nog.  I’ve not made it before so it should be quite an adventure.  There are zillions of recipes on the net for…

  • Champagne Cocktail – Ummm… Yeah

    Ok, so I really tried to like the Champagne Cocktail and I can’t say that I didn’t, but it certainly wasn’t great.  I found that no matter what bitters you use I simply couldn’t get enough of their flavor to shine through to make it worth using decent Champagne.  I also changed up the method…

  • A Bitter Start to the Holidays…

    And yet at the same time a very good start. :)  I just received an order of bitters from KegWorks and I’m looking forward to trying them all in the weeks to come.  I think I may even be able to leverage some of these in this week’s cocktail.

  • Champagne Cocktail

    The Champagne cocktail is quite possibly one of the simplest cocktails you’ll find, but there is still a considerable amount of variability available.  And it’s on that variability that I’ll be playing this week.  In the Joy of Mixology Gary Regan mentions that the first mention of this cocktail is in Jerry Thomas’ How to…

  • The Imbiber’s 100

    Darcy from Art of Drink came up with the Imbiber’s 100, a list of 100 drinks any good imbiber should try before they die.  This list is a fantastic spin off of the Omnivore’s 100 that I chimed in on a couple month’s ago.  So here is my offering. I scored a 56/100 so it…