Category: drink
The Morning After
Super Bowl LIII
The Scoff-law Cocktail
The word “Scofflaw” has come to mean “A person who flouts the law, especially an unsustainable one.” But such was not always the case. I...
The Mexican Eagle
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. That’s not quite exact. Limits are. When one is out of one’s preferred spirits, has no citrus stock...
Grandmother’s Lemonade
The hot days of Summer call for a cool drink, shade, and a lazy breeze through the apple trees. If my taste memory serves, this is Grandmother’s Lemonade....
Margarita, Won’t You Come to My Party?
For those interested in the recipe for the gallon of Margaritas which was consumed at my party yesterday, I used Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s recipe from A Gall...
On the Julep
A dram of spirituous liquor that has mint steeped in it, taken by Virginians of a morning. The Mint Julep is rumored to have led to as many arguments over the n...
Dark and Stormy
First you should know that I am not from Bermuda. And while I once visited on a cruise, I drank only beer while I was there, so have no first-hand confirmation ...
Naval Stores
Until Firefox gets the hang of tracking paths through the browser history, I can’t quite say exactly who started this idea in motion, but I can say what d...
Uisge-beatha
To make Irish Usquebaugh; from Lord Capell‘s Receipt, when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. To every Gallon of French-Brandy, put one Ounce of Liquorice...
Bloody Mary is the … Girl I Love
Happy 3rd Birthday, No. 2 Son! Soon we’ll have the family over for a party in your honor, and they’ll be drinking some stuff you can’t, yet. I...
Spirits of Any Kind
Now that I have more than two bitters in the house, let us try something. A cocktail is spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters. How about an Old-Fashion...
What Fashion of Gimlet Might This Be?
Having acquired an essential ingredient in the Deadrise, I find myself without another: the cucumber. Well, there’s nothing to it then but to make the nec...
Harvest Punch
We typically host Christmas Day dinner at our house, after my brother-in-law and his wife host the Feast of the Seven Fishes at his. Christmas Day is a more sub...
When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Drink Cocktails
J. T. Dobbs at American Drink asks, Is it a coincidence that on the heels of one of the worst economic crises since The Depression, artisan cocktails began maki...
The Cosmopolitan
Girlfriend, I present for your classy enjoyment the Cosmopolitan. Or, rather, a variation thereof since I don’t stock citrus vodka. The Cosmopolitan 1 1/2...