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Le Père Bis
The Le Père Bis is my first hot drink with spirits this year. And I guess it won´t be the last! In 2006 Jim Meehan was asked to create a hot drink with St. Germain. To prove that the liqueur could tame...
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Colony Cocktail
Dale DeGroff discovered the Colony Cocktail in a book called Bottoms Up by Ted Saucier (1953). This vodka-based house cocktail of the Colony restaurant in Manhattan must have been a remarkable...
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Rio Gimlet
“The problem with making a Gimlet exactly true to the classic recipe is that it calls specifically for Rose´s Lime Juice. Back in the day, Rose´s was made with real lime juice. Today it is only five...
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Aku Hall Sour
I love James Teitelbaum´s “needlessly complicated twist” (his own words) on a Pisco Sour, the Aku Hall Sour (found in his book Destination Cocktails). Ingredients 2.5 oz. Pisco, 0.75 oz. Lemon Juice,...
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Bamboo
The Bamboo is one of the very great classic drinks. It was created in the 1890s by the German Louis Eppinger, the manager of the Grand Hotel in Yokohama, Japan. Two kinds of bitters, orange and...
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Sunset Gun
The most beautiful birthday present I ever received was the one which I got from my beloved Eva, a wonderful Kaffir lime tree. I like this small tree so much and I am trying my very best to make it...
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Drink Without a Name
Today our Kaffir lime tree lost a fruit. So I had to decide quickly what to do with it. I, who wonders, created a drink. The juice of this fruit has a very aromatic quite astringent taste, so it needs...
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Jaguar
“First memories of tequila are often blurry. There may be a salt shaker involved, and a lime wedge … or a bottle of sketchy mezcal and a friend daring you to eat the pallid grub at the bottom“, Paul...
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Brown Bomber
I am just sipping a great Brown Bomber created by Jim Meehan (see PDT Cocktail book). Jim substituted Tennessee Whiskey for gin in the recipe of the White Negroni and named it after the American...
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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 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 10,000...
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