{"id":564,"date":"2008-11-16T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2008-11-16T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T04:19:36","slug":"champagne-cocktail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Champagne Cocktail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Champagne cocktail is quite possibly one of the simplest cocktails you&#8217;ll find, but there is still a considerable amount of variability available.\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s on that variability that I&#8217;ll be playing this week.\u00c2\u00a0 In the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Joy of Mixology<\/span> Gary Regan mentions that the first mention of this cocktail is in Jerry Thomas&#8217; How to Mix Drinks, but comments on the strange method.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=QDUEAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=jerry%20thomas&amp;pg=PA50&amp;ci=117,1027,798,300&amp;source=bookclip\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=QDUEAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA50&amp;img=1&amp;zoom=3&amp;hl=en&amp;sig=ACfU3U18qb9cr-zQ64orM83E9JuA6qGMaQ&amp;ci=117%2C1027%2C798%2C300&amp;edge=1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Text not available\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=QDUEAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=jerry%20thomas&amp;pg=PA50&amp;ci=117,1027,798,300&amp;source=bookclip\">How to Mix Drinks Or, The Bon-vivant&#8217;s Companion, Containing &#8230; Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States, Together with the Most Popular British, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish Recipes By Jerry Thomas,  Christian Schultz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Certainly this method is beyond strange.\u00c2\u00a0 Why on earth would you add Champagne to a shaker with ice and shake?\u00c2\u00a0 You&#8217;d lose much of the effervescence that the Champagne would bring and as Gary mentions &#8220;the shaker would explode when opened.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 In light of that I&#8217;m going to use that method, but I am going to stick with the Joy of Mixology for my starting recipe which remains nearly identical to the recipe Thomas lists.<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Champagne Cocktail<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>[Ingredients]<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1 Sugar Cube Soaked in Angostura Bitters\r\n5 1\/2 oz Chilled Champagne\r\nLemon Twist<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre><strong>[Directions]<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1) Soak the sugar cube in bitters\r\n2) Add the sugar to the Champagne flute\r\n3) Top with Champagne\r\n4) Garnish with the lemon twist<\/strong><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Champagne cocktail is quite possibly one of the simplest cocktails you&#8217;ll find, but there is still a considerable amount of variability available.\u00c2\u00a0 And it&#8217;s on that variability that I&#8217;ll be playing this week.\u00c2\u00a0 In the Joy of Mixology Gary Regan mentions that the first mention of this cocktail is in Jerry Thomas&#8217; How to [&hellip;]<\/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":[55,9,10],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-champagne-cocktail","tag-cocktail","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","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=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":568,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}