Category: Recipes
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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…
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The Cosmopolitan – A Week of Pink
As a card carrying man its a bit difficult to enjoy pink drinks, at least in public. But, my friends, after a week of experimentation I can assure you that the Cosmopolitan is well worth swallowing your pride for. This week was particularly well suited for analysis and experimentation. In my initial search for recipes…
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Cosmopolitan
I’m a bit late this week but fear not we’ll be enjoying a new cocktail. I haven’t given much time to vodka on the blog thus far and that’s partly due to the fact that by itself it’s not particularly exciting. However, it still reigns as the most popular spirit sold today. So there must…
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The Brown Derby Cocktail – A Week of Meh
I chose the Brown Derby Cocktail for this week as a semi-tribute to the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs. Once I started doing a bit of research on the drink I realized that this was an epic fail on my part. The Brown Derby was the signature cocktail of the Vendome Club in Los Angeles,…
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The Brown Derby Cocktail
Today Jennifer and I toured Churchill Downs. When we arrived we took a quick walk through the museum then took the standard 30 minute tour that comes with museum admission. The museum itself was a little less interesting than I had anticipated, but the quick tour was nice. Following the quick tour we went on…