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Feb17Cocktail Fridays: Hot Buttered Rum

You wouldn’t know it by looking out the window in most of this country, but it’s winter out there.  Here’s a drink that will warm you right up on a cold winter’s night, but is still pretty delicious even if your winter has been as mild as ours: hot buttered rum.

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Feb10Cocktail Fridays: A Pair of Corpse Revivers

Alcohol and medicine have a long history together.  Once upon a time, cocktails were not considered refreshments.  Instead, for much of their history, the first cocktails were consumed as tonics for all sorts of ailments, and bitters were first sold as medicine until someone very wise passed a law allowing only medicine to be sold as medicine.  Going back much farther, we find that many of the words for liquors – whiskey, eau de vie, akvavit, and so on – all mean the same thing, “water of life.”  Our ancestors knew what was what.  Here are two classic cocktails, the Corpse Reviver No. 1 and No. 2, that were designed to cure (and probably caused their fair share of) the dreaded hangover.

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Feb03Cocktail Fridays: Oaxacan Sunrise

We recently expanded our bar by adding a bottle of Mezcal, a smokey Mexican spirit closely related to Tequila.  Mezcal is delicious but not the easiest thing to mix into cocktails, and there are some (but not many) great Mezcal cocktail recipes out there to try.  So, we played around a bit and came out with (what we humbly think is) a fantastic Mezcal Sour – one that we’re calling a Oaxacan Sunrise.

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Jan27Cocktail Fridays: The Stone Fence

This is a very simple, three hundred year-old drink, just updated a bit with the addition of bitters. The Stone Fence pre-dates the United States, made by colonial farmers with what they had easily at hand: apple cider from their orchards and rye from their fields. Rye was the grain and drink of choice until settlers made their way into the Kentucky Valley, discovered they could grow more corn there than they could ever eat, and made bourbon into America’s spirit.  This is an old drink, but don’t dismiss it as an antique: this is the sort of drink that wins battles.

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