Year: 2008
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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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Cocktail Tools – Oxo Mini Measuring Cup
The Oxo Mini Measuring Cup may not look it on the surface but it is in fact the best jigger you will ever use. Making cocktails well and consistently requires accurate measuring all the time, every time. Traditional jiggers are great for measuring the amounts they’re designed for. However, when you have a 1 1/2…
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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…
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Welcome to Cocktail Hacker
Welcome to CocktailHacker.com! This is the first of what is sure to be many posts about spirits, recipes, ingredients, tools and all manner of things cocktail related. Aaron and I (Reese) started our cocktail journey quite slowly while in college. In the last couple years things have begun to get more interesting. Our recipe choices…