Hack what you drink!
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French 75
This Friday, December 5th, 2008, marks the 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition! So along those lines I felt it appropriate to feature a cocktail created during that unpleasant time period. With much fanfare I present to you the French 75. Ok, so that’s not really a cocktail, but it is the cocktail’s namesake. …
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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…
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Egg Nog
I’m going to take a bit of a break from the rigors of cocktail hacking this week. But I won’t be stopping my work entirely. This week I’m going to make homemade Egg Nog. I’ve not made it before so it should be quite an adventure. There are zillions of recipes on the net for…
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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…
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A Bitter Start to the Holidays…
And yet at the same time a very good start. :) I just received an order of bitters from KegWorks and I’m looking forward to trying them all in the weeks to come. I think I may even be able to leverage some of these in this week’s cocktail.