Cocktail Hacker

Well fellow hackers, I’m leaving on vacation tomorrow for the weekend so I’m going to be leaving you in the capable hands of Aaron. Before I depart though I want to leave you with some web reading and watching about the Sazerac.

Robert Hess’ Cocktail Spirit show has a nice series of segments on the Sazerac. The first two cover a Sazerac party held in San Francisco, the third is Robert’s recipe for making the drink.

Saturated with Sazeracs – Episode One

Saturated with Sazeracs – Episode Two

Saturated with Sazeracs – Episode Three

There is a great discussion of Rye Whiskey over on the eGullet forums. And another great discussion of The Sazerac itself.

Hope you’re enjoying your Sazeracs this week, I certainly have been. See you in a few days!

Welcome to CocktailHacker.com!

This is the first of what is sure to be many posts about spirits, recipes, ingredients, tools and all manner of things cocktail related. Aaron and I (Reese) started our cocktail journey quite slowly while in college. In the last couple years things have begun to get more interesting. Our recipe choices are getting broader, we’re expanding our bars greatly, and we’re learning about the history of cocktails. We’ve decided to share what we learn with you, our readers, in hopes that you too can learn more about the world of cocktails and broaden your cocktail repertoire.

We come to mixology from an engineering background and as such plan to take a methodical approach when investigating new cocktails. That said, we are hackers after all, and as such we may also employ some unorthodox techniques and tools when necessary. We intended to cover one cocktail per week in depth, starting with a classic recipe and branching out from there. At the end of the week we’ll report back on what worked and what didn’t. We’ll also be sharing recipes for ingredients such as grenadine, orgeat syrup, etc. Interspersed in all of this will be tool reviews/suggestions, book reviews, spirit reviews and bar reviews. Plus anything else that piques our interest.

Please let us know if there is anything you’d like to see on the site and we’ll do what we can to accommodate. Thanks for your interest and happy drinking!