Month: October 2009
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Bloody Mary
You remember when you were a kid and you were just learning to swim? The deep end, even though it was the same pool, even though you could see the bottom was still way scarier than the shallow end. That’s the sort of feeling I’m getting this week. For as long as I can remember…
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Cheat Sheets!
So I’ve finally gotten current on a project that I started almost a year ago. I’ve condensed all of my favorite recipes from each cocktail I’ve featured here and grouped them into printable cheat sheets. My goal is to keep these up to date so we can all use them for a quick reference when…
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The Evolution of the Cocktail – Phylogeny Revisited
As you may recall, a while back I pointed you to a very cool post about the phylogeny of cocktails on Jim Harriman’s site SpaghettiLogic.org. Well, Jim is back with a phylogenetic tree of 100 cocktails. This time in awesome full color poster format! Jim was nice enough to mail me one of the posters…
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Begin Laziness in 3…2…1…
Ok, folks. I’m taking this week off. I’ll be gone on vacation for the second half of the week so I didn’t feel it right to half ass a cocktail review. I’ll be back in full force next week though so please join me then.
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French Squirrel – Even More Pink!
This week’s drink has been an interesting change from my usual cocktail hacking experience. Generally I make up my list of recipes, usually at least five and experiment with the various ratios until I find something that I like. Since Gary Regan created this cocktail there really aren’t any other recipes for it out there. …