Hack what you drink!
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Chrysanthemum – Mildly Life Changing
Life changing might be a bit of an overstatement, but this cocktail definitely changed the way I look at Benedictine and dry vermouth. As I began sipping my first Chrysanthemum and taking notes, as I always do, I wrote this down. “Four sips in and this drink is already one of my favorites.” At the…
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Benedictine
I mentioned in the intro that this week’s cocktail, and more specifically its ingredients, are old school. In fact, very few are more old school than Benedictine. This year the herbal liqueur celebrates its 500th anniversary! The liqueur was first developed by monks in 1510. Their production of the herbal spirit progressed for over 250…
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Engineer’s Guide to Drinks
As I was sifting through my RSS feeds this morning I stumbled upon these engineering drawings of cocktails. They’re very well done and quite geeky. Or, put more succinctly, awesome. In reading through the comments on Nathan’s post, it seems that this was originally a full color poster. If anyone knows where I can purchase…
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Chrysanthemum
This week I’m going old school again and pulling a recipe from the pages of the The Savoy Cocktail Book, the Chrysanthemum cocktail. In addition to the recipe the ingredients for this cocktail are old school as well. Benedictine, for example, has been around for 500 years this year. More on that later this week.…
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Blackthorn – Good, not Life Changing
The Blackthorn is good. Nothing that I’m going to be adding to my top cocktails list though by any means. This drink, as Regan wisely points out, is, at its base, a twist on the Manhattan. Therein, you see, lay my main problem. The Manhattan was one of the first cocktails that I experimented with…