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Mezcal Paloma
The Paloma is a simple and delicious cocktail that showcases grapefruit (the super citrus) alongside tequila, lime and soda. It is refreshing, simple to make and surprisingly tasty. I like palomas,...
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Pow Wow Botanical Rye
I’ve been on a slight hiatus due to a move to Philadelphia, but I’m back and i’m making cocktails again like they are going out of style. On my most reent quest to find something delicious, I came...
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Chive Blossom Infused Gin
This one is still in the early phases, but my chive plants have been growing out of control and I needed a new use. And, as it turns out, I have an awful lot of gin in the house. So I decided to...
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Vintage Cocktail Books in The Public Domain
Well, this is pretty amazing. This link brings you to a library on the Golden Age Bartending website with full text of vintage cocktail books available for free download. It seems that, given the age...
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Chive to Five Cocktail
Chive infused gin? Indeed. I’ll be honest, it took me a little while to figure out what to do with this infusion. It smells quite like onions, which is a bit odd, at first. Not aggressive onion, but...
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Blackberry Lillet
This is two cocktails in a row with Rothman and Winter Apricot, for the record. But that’s ok. It’s summertime and I could drink that spirit by the gallon if that was socially acceptable. This is an...
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Making Falernum
I was teaching a cocktail class in upstate NY last week and found myself without a source for Falernum. I had forgotten to bring it with me and there wasn’t a liquor store in sight that had it...
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Manhattan
New bitters, but a time tested manhattan recipe. 2 oz Rittenhouse Rye 1 oz Carpano Antica 1 dash Angostura Bitters 1 Dash Dram Hair of the Dog Bitters Stir. Strain. Drink. Filed under: Cocktail
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A New Fall Classic Cocktail
This time of year, when my front porch looks like this I know it is time to turn to fall cocktails. Aside from my usual favorites – The Lion’s Tail, Manhattan, etc – I always come back to two liqueurs...
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2013 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 38,000...
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