Category: Recipes
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Old Fashioned – The Remixes
So, when we covered the Old Fashioned some weeks ago there were a few variations that we didn’t end up trying. There were various reasons that they got glossed over, but none the less I felt there was a hole in our investigations. Bourbon Week to the rescue! Revisiting Bourbon gave us a perfect chance…
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Blood and Sand
I have two navel oranges sitting on my counter right now. They’ve been there for a couple days and as I was debating what cocktail to feature this week they popped in to my view. Orange juice is such a wonderful ingredient yet none of the cocktails we’ve covered so far have included it. So…
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The Margarita
We’ve been experimenting with cocktails for quite some time now here at Cocktail Hacker. We have over a dozen drinks under our belt and not one of them has included tequila. Which, as I’m sure some of you would be quick to point out, is wholly unacceptable. So, in that spirit, this week we’re going…
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Ingredient – Tonic Syrup
There is a great thread on eGullet titled “You might be a cocktail snob/geek if…” Well, tonight I can add another of my own. You might be a cocktail geek if you make incredible homemade tonic syrup and immediately start thinking about what you can tweak to make it better. Last night the cocktail hacker…
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Gin and Tonic
The Gin and Tonic, the cocktail that started my love. The G&T is so utterly simple that a lot of people, I would hazard to guess, wouldn’t even classify it as a cocktail, rather a simple mixed drink that you pound back to get buzzed. I on the other hand will expound that a well…