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The Autumn Frogman
This was actually written for November’s Mixology Monday but since I shifted my blog I am reproducing it here. The topic of this month’s Mixology Monday is bitters. On a recent trip to Cambodia I...
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The Sleigh Flip: or Santa may not make it. . .
The theme for this week’s Mixology Monday (hosted at Spirit World) is Drinks for a Festive Occasion. I was a little stumped about what to contribute. I had been thinking about something using my...
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Tweaking the Blackthorn. . .
The Blackthorn cocktail is one of my favorites, a gin base with a generous splash of both Dubonnet and kirsch. Dubonnet and gin appear together in all sorts of early 20th Century drinks. In the...
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The Calvados Cocktail
You might be wondering what calvados has to do with this Mixology Monday’s orange theme, but a closer look at this ‘calvados’ drink reveals the name to be something of a misnomer. Just a third of the...
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Pisco Bell-Ringer
I’m going to try a few different pisco cocktails over the next few entries here, just to maintain a little bit of a pisco theme. Some probably won’t be so great. However, there is one excellent one...
View ArticleResearching Apricot Brandy cocktails
I tried out a range of apricot brandy drinks while selecting my entry for the recent Raiders of the Lost Cocktail. The following gives a summary of what I tried, ranked not very scientifically from...
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Experimenting with Pineau des Charentes
Pineau Experiment No. 6 was perhaps the best of the bunch. . . The next step was to try mixing some drinks of my own using Pineau des Charentes. Pineau turned out to slightly awkward stuff to mix...
View ArticleThe Pegu Club
My latest article for DRiNK is on the Pegu Club. It’s a great drink so go check it out. Special thanks to the translator for an excellent job on the Chinese. I did not make her life easy, what with...
View ArticleBamboo Cocktail Story
My latest story for DRiNK was on the Bamboo Cocktail. Follow the link to check it out. I like the Bamboo for a couple of reasons. First, it is one of a relatively small number of cocktails that use...
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