Hack what you drink!
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Clover Club
This week I’m going to turn my focus to another gin sour, namely the Clover Club. This drink takes a bit of a diversion from the typical sour by replacing the simple syrup with raspberry syrup or grenadine. Gary Regan mentions in the Joy of Mixology that this drink “isn’t much to talk about” when…
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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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Rum Suggestions from a Master
When I started Cocktail Hacker a little over a year ago my liquor shopping trips were strategic in nature, now it’s a decidedly more tactical affair. In times past I would go to the store some times with a goal, more often not, and I would come home with spirits that sounded like they might…
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Cola Highballs
Highballs aren’t exactly new here at Cocktail Hacker. I’ve covered the Gin & Tonic and the Dark and Stormy in the past. Around Superbowl time I even put up some tips on creating your own DIY highball bar for your party. But, one category I haven’t touched on as yet is the class of cola…
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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…