Mandeville

November 18, 2009

A few weeks ago while working my way through the 100 cocktails Bobby Heugel of Anvil in Houston thinks everyone should try at least once list, I was confronted with the Cuba Libre. The Cuba Libre is a step up from a standard Rum and Coke by including lime juice and often lime peel [...]

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Good Ol’ Harv – The Harvey Wallbanger

November 9, 2009

Sunday was National Harvey Wallbanger Day. Did you miss the parade?
There are classic cocktails, and there are classic drinks. One of the latter is the Harvey Wallbanger. It has almost everything I think makes a great cocktail: a cool backstory, controversy about said backstory, a simple recipe with an exotic ingredient, and a wicked cool, [...]

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Ancho Chile Syrup

November 4, 2009

There is a syrup i like to make sometimes, its made with ancho chile. The ancho chile is a dried blackish/reddish brown chile. Flat and wrinkled, it looks almost like a big flat raisin in a way. Its actually a poblano that is dried, then its called ancho. It’s a not very hot to medium [...]

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Ice Geeking

October 31, 2009

Preparing drinks can be facilitated by owning the proper tools. While a lot of people have spoken about the shakers, jiggers, and the like, very little has been written about ice tools. Ice plays a critical part in the drink making and enjoying experience, and its shape and size can effect everything [...]

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Autumn Reading

October 28, 2009

This month I have been commissioned by my Curatorial Overlords at the CSOWG to recommend some curl-up-by-the-fire reading. Naturally, we operate under the assumption that this includes a cat (or dog) dozing at your feet, a crocheted afghan on your lap and a piping hot toddy next to your low-burning reading lamp. If not, I [...]

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A Chocolate Spirit on my Palate – Mozart Dry

October 25, 2009

As i did happen to write a review for Mozart Dry at the same time as i was going to write about chocolate spirit here i chose to add the review here as well as the product is the best chocolate spirit i´ve tasted.

There are basically three different types of chocolate liqueurs:
1. Original chocolate liqueurs [...]

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Vote for the Best Drink Created for TDN: Square One Botanical

October 9, 2009

Square One Botanical graciously hosted this week’s Thursday Drink Night. Here’s the top drinks we created to explore this new product. Be sure to vote for your favorite!
Square Dance

1 oz Square One Botanical
1/2 oz Lillet Blanc
1/2 oz Dubbonet Rouge
1/2 oz Orange Juice
1/4 oz Apricot Liqueur (Rothman and Winter Orchard Apricot)

Shake with ice and strain into [...]

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The Sylvan Nudge

October 1, 2009

Have you ever been at the end of a long meal and wanted a little something with alcohol, sugar or both, but yet you’re about to fall into a food coma? Or you just want a little extra something in your Saturday morning coffee? The French Nudge is a perfect marriage of all these desires. [...]

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Vote for the best drink created for TDN: Clear Spirits

September 27, 2009

Clear spirits was our theme, and as always, the competition was fierce. Here’s the best drinks of the night.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

1 oz gin
1oz mezcal
1/3 oz falernum
1/3oz fernet
1/3oz carpano antica
2d mole bitters

Stir until well integrated and strain into cocktail glass.

Great White Flight

2 oz White Rum (used ElD 3yo)
0.75oz Falernum
0.75oz lime juice
0.5oz Domain de Canton
0.25oz [...]

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Tasting Liquor or Fun with Blindfolds

September 23, 2009

Last month, on the occasion of a friend ’shopping victoriously’ for the Sazerac 18 year old rye, a number of friends gathered at my house to blind taste a slate of rye whiskeys. Having recently attended Paul Pacult’s session at Tales of the Cocktail (How Good is your Palate) I had a fairly good [...]

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