Tag: Cocktail
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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…
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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…
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The Manhattan
The Manhattan is like the Martini’s deeper more complex brother. Said to have been created in the 1860’s by a bartender named Black at a bar on Broadway, the drink is a simple combination of Whiskey, Sweet Vermouth and Bitters. This drink is also known by some as a drinking man’s cocktail and the king…
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The Martini – An Elegant Drink To Be Sure
Whether you’re drinking it with classic Gin, or the favored Vodka, dirty, extra dirty, with olives, with a twist, with orange bitters or completely unadulterated one thing is for sure, you feel more sophisticated while drinking this elegant drink. The Martini is a dirnk that has spawned an entire generation of cocktail drinkers. Whether its…
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The Wunderlich Clan Martini
As a kid, whenever we went to any of my Mom’s family there was always a mysteriously frozen bottle of drinks in the freezer. This bottle would come out in the evening and usually accompanied games of cribbage or talking in to the night. I knew back then that these were the family recipe for…