Tag: Wrap Up
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…