{"id":876,"date":"2009-02-22T21:30:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2009-02-22T21:30:11","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:30:11","slug":"scofflaw-feels-good-to-be-this-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=876","title":{"rendered":"Scofflaw &#8211; Feels Good to be This Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s no longer against the law to mix and drink these cocktails, but we can always pretend right?\u00c2\u00a0 The Scofflaw is the perfect drink for that kind of pretending too.\u00c2\u00a0 The ingredients are classic, especially if you go with Rye, and you should.\u00c2\u00a0 The flavor can range from dry to sweet depending on your taste.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, the color is simply stunning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"Scofflaw Cocktail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/86318258@N00\/3295903524\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3580\/3295903524_9260428837.jpg\" alt=\"Scofflaw Cocktail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started my experiments this week with The Joy of Mixology recipe (2 oz Rye, 1 oz Dry Vermouth, 1\/2 oz Lemon Juice, 1\/4 oz Grenadine) and found it to be a little too dry for my liking.\u00c2\u00a0 The next recipe I mixed up (1 1\/2 oz, 1 oz, 3\/4 oz, 3\/4 oz), from Forgotten Spirits and Cocktails, was on the opposite end of the spectrum, much too sweet.\u00c2\u00a0 After a couple recipe tweaks I settled on one that I really like which ups the sour and sweet notes while keeping the whiskey and vermouth flavors present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"flickr-image\" title=\"Scofflaw Cocktail with Hibiscus Grenadine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/86318258@N00\/3295080413\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3302\/3295080413_20e0a29c9c.jpg\" alt=\"Scofflaw Cocktail with Hibiscus Grenadine\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Scofflaw (Cocktail Hacker)<\/strong><\/pre>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>1 1\/2 oz Rye\r\n1 oz Dry Vermouth\r\n3\/4 oz Lemon Juice\r\n1\/2 oz Grenadine<\/strong><\/pre>\n<p>Some parting comments.\u00c2\u00a0 I tried both rye and bourbon in this cocktail and found both worked very well.\u00c2\u00a0 But, as in the Manhattan, I felt the spiciness of the rye worked better in this application.\u00c2\u00a0 I also used my homemade <a title=\"CH - Hibiscus Grenadine\" href=\"http:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/?p=873\" target=\"_blank\">hibiscus grenadine<\/a> that I discussed earlier in the week which is a little less sweet than some.\u00c2\u00a0 Depending on the sweetness of your grenadine you may want to play with the amount you add to get the sweetness you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it&#8217;s no longer against the law to mix and drink these cocktails, but we can always pretend right?\u00c2\u00a0 The Scofflaw is the perfect drink for that kind of pretending too.\u00c2\u00a0 The ingredients are classic, especially if you go with Rye, and you should.\u00c2\u00a0 The flavor can range from dry to sweet depending on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[9,10,78,203],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","category-wrap-up","tag-cocktail","tag-recipe","tag-scofflaw","tag-wrap-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","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=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailhacker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}