{"id":1288,"date":"2009-12-09T21:06:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T04:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1288"},"modified":"2009-12-10T10:57:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T17:57:53","slug":"tiki-in-december-fog-cutter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=1288","title":{"rendered":"Tiki in December – Fog Cutter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calling this drink a Fog Cutter is a grand misnomer.\u00c2\u00a0 Much better thought of as a fog maker.\u00c2\u00a0 In Grog Log, Beachbum Berry has a great quote from Trader Vic that sums up his creation nicely.\u00c2\u00a0 “Fog Cutter, hell.\u00c2\u00a0 After two of these, you won’t even see the stuff.”\u00c2\u00a0 To give you a hint of why this is the case let’s take a peek at the recipe to get us going.<\/p>\n

Fog Cutter (Grog Log)<\/strong><\/pre>\n
2 oz Lemon Juice\r\n1 oz Orange Juice\r\n1\/2 oz Orgeat\r\n2 oz Light Rum\r\n1 oz Brandy\r\n1\/2 oz Gin\r\n1\/2 oz Sweet Sherry<\/strong><\/pre>\n
1) Combine the ingredients (except sherry) in a shaker\r\n2) Shake with ice until well chilled\r\n3) Pour into a tiki mug\r\n4) Float sherry on top<\/strong><\/pre>\n
If you take a look you’ll notice that there are 3 1\/2 oz of hard alcohol in this drink, 4 oz if you include the sherry.\u00c2\u00a0 See what I mean when I say fog maker?\u00c2\u00a0 After a couple of these and the fog settles in deep and wonderful.<\/p>\n
\"Fog<\/a><\/p>\n
When I first mixed this drink my first comment was that this is another tart but delicious cocktail.\u00c2\u00a0 The sourness from the lemon was a little overwhelming.\u00c2\u00a0 After a little thought it occurred to me that maybe it wasn’t the recipe but rather my ingredients.\u00c2\u00a0 It would seem that my lemon juice this go-round is tarter than usual.\u00c2\u00a0 This is a nice segue into a good point I should make.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s always a good plan to give you cocktails a small taste before you shake and serve them.\u00c2\u00a0 This will give you an idea of whether your is mixed correctly.\u00c2\u00a0 For example perhaps your lemon juice is too tart.<\/p>\n
To really give this drink the review it deserves I mixed up another with only 1 1\/2 oz of lemon juice.\u00c2\u00a0 The resulting cocktail is much more balanced.\u00c2\u00a0 So, now that you know the drink is ~1\/2 hard alcohol, on tasting it you’d never guess.\u00c2\u00a0 The sherry really only comes through in the scent, which explains why the recipe calls for it to be\u00c2\u00a0 a float.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t notice the gin in this drink but I used Junipero which isn’t a particularly strongly flavored example of the spirit.\u00c2\u00a0 The brandy and rum meld nicely to make a harmonious core flavor with the citrus and the orgeat adding a subtle background flavor.<\/p>\n
This is a great drink.\u00c2\u00a0 Whether you choose to mix it to cut your fog or perhaps deepen it a bit I’m certain you’ll be quite pleased with the results.<\/p>\n
[Note] There are some other cool pictures from this cocktail.\u00c2\u00a0 I even got to play with dry ice.\u00c2\u00a0 Check them out on Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Calling this drink a Fog Cutter is a grand misnomer.\u00c2\u00a0 Much better thought of as a fog maker.\u00c2\u00a0 In Grog Log, Beachbum Berry has a great quote from Trader Vic that sums up his creation nicely.\u00c2\u00a0 “Fog Cutter, hell.\u00c2\u00a0 After two of these, you won’t even see the stuff.”\u00c2\u00a0 To give you a hint of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130,10,27],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-fog-cutter","tag-recipe","tag-tiki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1290,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions\/1290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}