This margarita is a new favorite because of its subtle taste of jalapeño with the slightest bit of heat on the finish. It was popular at our last party…and we knew we had a hit when the rest of the cocktails went untouched! The simple syrup takes only a few…
I enjoy gin drinks and bitter drinks. I also appreciate cocktails that are herbal and complex. The Mélange d’Or combines the flavors of Hendrik’s Gin, Carpano Blanco, Carpano Dry and Tempus Fugit’s Kina L Avion d’Or. Then I threw in Dale DeGroff’s Pimento Aromatic Bitters for an additional level of complexity.…
This has become one of my favorite sours. If we have a bottle of red wine open, it’s the first cocktail I consider. The egg white makes a velvety mouth feel and the large ice cube in the shaker creates a nice texture. Use a full bodied, fruity wine such…
I like my whiskey sours 1:1 bourbon and lemon sour. For the lemon sour, I prefer 2:1 lemon to simple syrup. I also like the mouth feel of egg white. 1 1/2 oz. Belle Meade Bourbon 1 oz. Fresh lemon juice 1/2 oz. Simple syrup 1 large egg white (can…
Treaty Oak Distilling is aging their gin in whiskey barrels to create their Waterloo Antique Gin. This is truly a unique gin. It has the sweet caramel nose that you would expect from the barrel aging but with the addition of the herbaceous input of gin. The flavors are citrus,…
I think that Fords Gin cries out for grapefruit. It so happens that grapefruit is one of the primary flavors in Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s tonic recipe. His quinine syrup, that you can add to club soda to make tonic water, is simple and takes less than an hour to make. I…
It’s time again for the world’s best online cocktail party. The theme for this month’s Mixology Monday is “Hometown Hooch,” as set forth by Stuart Putney at Putney Farms. You can read more at the announcement post here, but the idea is to use locally distilled spirits in a cocktail. …
We have two offerings for this Month’s Mixology Monday, “I’ll take Manhattan!” This one, from our fearless MxMo leader, Frederic of the CocktailVirgin blog, challenges us to revisit the classic cocktail. Our first submission is the Manhattan 2.0 – a “Modern” version of the Manhattan with the added nuance of…
For the the bourbon in this cocktail, we tried Basil Hayden and Belle Mead. Both were excellent. The bourbon brings flavors of maple, tobacco, smoke and vanilla. This blends well with the rich, earthy Carpano Antica’s tastes of herbs, spice and slight bitterness. Tasting this without knowing the ingredients, one…
It is Mixology Monday! The theme, “Drink of Shame,” is the invention of our host Tipicular Fixins. We have all quaffed a few sweet, strange libations and I have imbibed my share of questionable drinks. This Month’s challenge, (now that we are real mixologists), is to create a cocktail that…
