Drink
- Bacon Infused Burbon Recipe for Benton's Old Fashioned
Like many, I first tried this wonderful infusion at PDT while drinking a Benton's Old Fashioned --also one of the very very few times I felt ok about paying $15 for a cocktail. I digress. I am a fan of traditional Old Fashioned cocktails, Sidecar's, S...
- Classic Cocktail | Jack Rose Concocted sometime in the 1920's, this sour cocktail is a simple mix of apple brandy, lemon juice, and grenadine. If you are a romantic then the drink was named after a NYC hit man named Jack Rose. Another possibility was that it was invented by mixologist Joseph Rose...
- Classic Cocktail | The Aviation The gin based cocktail was created in the early part of the 1900's by Hugo Ensslin, head bartender at Hotel Wallick in NYC. In 1916, Ensslin published a small book Recipes for Mixed Drinks. Ensslin's recipe consisted of gin, lemon juice, maraschino liqueur, and creme de violette.
- Classic Cocktail | French 75 The drink was concocted in Paris by American WWI fighter pilot Raoul Lufbery. Lufbery apparently had a thing for champagne, but wanted something with more of a kick so Cognac was added. As the story goes...the combination was said to have such a kick that it felt like...
- Classic Cocktail | The Last Word The Last Word is a cocktail that embodies elegance and refined flavor, though its origins are about as elegant as the G train. No gentleman's club in Burma or Harry's in Paris, not even a gentrified New Orleans establishment lays claim to the herbal cocktail. The Last Word was incarnated during the days of prohibition...
- MiXed | Juliet and Romeo I set out to make VH's Juliet and Romeo, a refreshing gin number that is being picked up by a number bartenders here on the east coast. The J&R turns out to be one of the tastiest gin cocktails I have had in awhile...then again how could you go wrong with gin, mint, rose water, and lime?
- Old Cocktail, New Take | Sureau (Gin) Fizz I've been toying around with egg based cocktails lately and stumbled upon an interesting take on the Ramos Gin Fizz. The Sureau Fizz was dreamed up by No.9 Park's (Boston) Bartender Ben Sandrof during the 2008 St. Germain Cocktail competition. Appropriately, the Sureau Fizz is essentially...
- Classic Cocktail | Pegu Club In keeping with the gin in the summer theme, I had to write an ode to another classic, the Pegu Club. Like the Bee's Knees, this bitter gin based drink has surreptitious origins. It is known that the drink was created in the 1920's...
- MiXed | Ginger Sidecar While the cointreau merely ‘backs’ up the cognac in the original recipe, Canton is key when mixing a Ginger Sidecar. Canton was introduced in the late 90’s and has seen a slew of different names (the current moniker is Domaine de Canton).
- Spring Cocktail | Bee’s Knees Somewhere around April I tend to put the brown stuff back on the shelf, restock the gin, and do a sundance for an early spring and an even earlier summer.
- Winter Cocktail | The Honey Dove The Honey Dove is cognac, vanilla soy milk, and honey. The result is similar to an Earl Grey with a kick. A perfect balance of texture and sweetness. The heat of the cognac is nicely complimented...
- Fall Cocktail | Sazerac The fall is officially here…well Im not quite sure about the calendar date, but it hit 40’s at night in Nor Cal so Im calling it fall. Time to put the Campari back in the shelf and trade in the Negroni for something more weather appropriate.