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  • The Sidecar – A Week in Review

    Today marks the end of our first week here at CocktailHacker.com, a week of tasting, and experimenting with, one of my all-time favorite cocktails, the Sidecar.  Throughout the week, Reese and I have tested many different recipes, some of them exceptional, and some of them not so much. Of the many lessons we’ve learned about…

  • The Sidecar – Embury’s Recipe

    We whipped up a batch of Sidecars per Embury’s original recipe from Difford’s Guide to Cocktails #7.  Which in our case was composed of: 2 oz Courvoisier VSOP Cognac 1/2 oz Lemon Juice 1/2 oz Cointreau Have to say that we agree this cocktail is dry like the Mojave Desert.  Although, the good quality Cognac…

  • The Sidecar

    The first cocktail we’re going to investigate is one of the Six Basic Drinks identified by David A. Embury in his classic cocktail book The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, namely The Sidecar.  Over the next six weeks we’re going to discuss each of Embury’s basic drinks, one per week.  Each of these cocktails requires…