Category: Recipes
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The Daiquiri
Last week we enjoyed the first of Embury’s six basic cocktails, The Sidecar. This week we’re going to be sampling The Daiquiri. If this is the first thing that pops in to your head when you hear the word Daiquiri, then please, dear reader, pull up a chair and let the Hackers tell tale of…
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The Sidecar – A Week in Review
Today marks the end of our first week here at CocktailHacker.com, a week of tasting, and experimenting with, one of my all-time favorite cocktails, the Sidecar. Throughout the week, Reese and I have tested many different recipes, some of them exceptional, and some of them not so much. Of the many lessons we’ve learned about…
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The Sidecar – Embury’s Recipe
We whipped up a batch of Sidecars per Embury’s original recipe from Difford’s Guide to Cocktails #7. Which in our case was composed of: 2 oz Courvoisier VSOP Cognac 1/2 oz Lemon Juice 1/2 oz Cointreau Have to say that we agree this cocktail is dry like the Mojave Desert. Although, the good quality Cognac…
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The Sidecar
The first cocktail we’re going to investigate is one of the Six Basic Drinks identified by David A. Embury in his classic cocktail book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, namely The Sidecar. Over the next six weeks we’re going to discuss each of Embury’s basic drinks, one per week. Each of these cocktails requires…