Cocktail Hacker

Tag: Wrap Up

  • Egg Nog – A Cup O’ Creamy Deliciousness

    So, as promised, I made homemade Egg Nog over the Thanksgiving holiday.  To give a brief summary for those of you with ADD, it is totally worth the effort.  I went with the standard (non-cooked) Good Eats Egg Nog recipe and used Eagle Rare bourbon as my spirit of choice.  The whole process took less…

  • Champagne Cocktail – Ummm… Yeah

    Ok, so I really tried to like the Champagne Cocktail and I can’t say that I didn’t, but it certainly wasn’t great.  I found that no matter what bitters you use I simply couldn’t get enough of their flavor to shine through to make it worth using decent Champagne.  I also changed up the method…

  • The Cosmopolitan – A Week of Pink

    As a card carrying man its a bit difficult to enjoy pink drinks, at least in public.  But, my friends, after a week of experimentation I can assure you that the Cosmopolitan is well worth swallowing your pride for.  This week was particularly well suited for analysis and experimentation.  In my initial search for recipes…

  • Gimlet – Tasty and Delicious

    Sorry for the dearth of posts this week.  There was a political event happening and I was paying attention to that. ;)  But, fear not, that did not keep me from my work with the Gimlet.  The first experimental track I followed was altering the proportions.  As I mentioned in the intro post the recipe…

  • The Brown Derby Cocktail – A Week of Meh

    I chose the Brown Derby Cocktail for this week as a semi-tribute to the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs.  Once I started doing a bit of research on the drink I realized that this was an epic fail on my part.  The Brown Derby was the signature cocktail of the Vendome Club in Los Angeles,…