Category: Wrap Up
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Rusty Nail – Can I Just Have The Scotch?
When I drink scotch I drink it neat, maybe a tiny piece of ice if I’d like a bit of mellowing to the flavor. With that, I came in to this week thinking that the Rusty Nail could improve upon straight scotch. That turned out to not be the case at all, at least not…
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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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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…
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The Blinker – A Truly Unique Combination
The title really says a lot. As I mentioned in the intro this week, this is a combination of ingredients that I never would have thought of. However, this most assuredly doesn’t mean it’s not a good one. Quite the contrary in fact. My first note for this week reads “Oh wow. Different even than…
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Tiki in December – Take That Crappy Weather!
The week here in Colorado was cold with our first day above 30F being Friday (It hovered around 10F the rest of the week). As I mentioned in the intro post it seemed a perfectly fitting time to celebrate the awesomeness of Tiki drinks and so it was. I mixed up four cocktails this week…