Year: 2008

  • Cocktail Hacking on the Road

    So, I arrived in Columbus, GA earlier today and spent the rest of the day exploring the city and generally goofing off.  At some point mid-afternoon I decided I should make myself a cocktail in my hotel room tonight.  Being a simple recipe I decided on an Old Fashioned.  Now comes the interesting part. I…

  • Sazerac Videos

    Well fellow hackers, I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow for the weekend so I’m going to be leaving you in the capable hands of Aaron.  Before I depart though I want to leave you with some web reading and watching about the Sazerac. Robert Hess’ Cocktail Spirit show has a nice series of segments on the…

  • The Sazerac

    When you hear about New Orleans (NOLA) any number of images likely pop in to your head.  For me I think about NOLA’s rich cocktail history.  Nothing sums up this cocktail history better than the Sazerac.  Recently named the official cocktail of New Orleans (after a proposal to make it the official drink of Louisiana…

  • The Old Fashioned – A Drink of Simplicity

    This week’s experimentation with the Old Fashioned has been very rewarding.  This is a drink I first mixed up only a couple month’s ago and is now, without question, one of my favorites.  As I mentioned in yesterday’s post the drink is simplicity at its finest and truly sums up the classic definition of what…

  • The Old Fashioned – Embury’s Version

    I whipped up an Embury Old Fashioned on Monday evening.  Despite the variables in the recipe the drink turned out to be very good.  I chose to go with the following quantities: Embury’s Old Fashioned: 2 oz Eagle Rare Bourbon 1 tsp Simple Syrup 3 Dashes Angostura Bitters Twist of Lemon Embury got this one…