Tag: Wrap Up

  • Americano – Happy Fourth Everybody

    This week has been a bit on the crazy side as I’ve been getting ready to head to New Orleans for Tales of the Cocktail (TOTC).  More on that tomorrow.  Thankfully throughout the week I had the Americano to turn to for a refreshing summer cocktail with a wonderfully complex flavor and a nice hit…

  • Salty Dog – Less of a Dog Than Expected

    My week of Salty Dogs started when I mixed some up for my cousin Tara and I.  I followed the simple recipe I laid out at the beginning of the week, 2 oz vodka, 3 oz grapefruit juice.  The only grapefruit juice I had on hand was the kind in the tiny cans and I…

  • Clover Club – Mmmm Pink

    After this week of experimentation I have a bit of a confession to make, I think I’m starting to get over my deep seated phobia of pink. You see, I keep making pink cocktails worried about their possible girly appearance only to be consistently blown away by their amazing flavor.  The Clover Club, like the…

  • Cola Highballs – So Many Possibilities

    This week’s drink of choice presented a nearly endless range of possibilities.  What cola to choose?  What recipe? What spirit?  I opted to narrow down the field a bit and focus only on the choice of spirit this time.  In doing so I had to decide on a cola and a recipe upon which to…

  • 20th Century Cocktail – Wow…yeah, wow

    I mixed this cocktail for the first time with a bit of trepidation.  Chocolate, lemon, gin and aperetif wine, really?  I’m happy to report that someone had a lot more depth of cocktail thought than I do.  I never would have guess that this combination would taste so good.  But taste good it most certainly…