Mistakenly thinking that I have a big enough audience to warrant courting, a marketer recently sent me some Cabo Wabo Reposado (warning: annoying site music) and Campari (the website is to enable Campari drinkers to share “red passion” with each other, which sounds like a terrible euphemism: seriously, guys, think) to review. The Cabo Wabo [...]
Archive for the ‘Random Drinks’ Category
selling out and the carlos slim
Posted in Random Drinks, Rants on November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
once more, with chocolate this time
Posted in Random Drinks on October 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This may get me kicked out of the club, but I don’t really like Sidecars or Whiskey Sours. The combination of wood-aged liquor with citrus and/or orange liqueur just tastes weird to me. In fact, I tend to avoid any drink that combines whiskey or brandy and lemon juice, because I can never enjoy them [...]
The Aquavit Old-Fashioned
Posted in Random Drinks on August 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Old-Fashioned (the real Old-Fashioned, as Ted Haigh has decreed, i.e., without the Fruit Salad) is a beautiful drink. Easy to make, easy to love. But, and here is the key thing, poorly suited for summer temperatures and relative humidity that makes every living second a torment, akin to being simmered gently in a sweat [...]
The Jasmine and El Jazmín
Posted in Random Drinks on July 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I will not even begin to go into where I’ve been. It is more exciting than can be described by mere words, mere pale signifiers of meaning. No, Scott Beattie did not beat me into a coma. My cat decided to poop on the floor a lot and friends visited.
Lately, tequila has been on my [...]
Scott Beattie’s “Artisanal Cocktails”
Posted in Random Drinks, Rants on May 29, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Oof. I’ve found that, when annoyed, saying (or, you know, writing) only those things which are verifiable facts until you (me) have built up a cogent argument leaves you (still me!) less open to committing fallacies or errors of passion. So let me start this way. Artisanal Cocktails is a new-ish (my local library just [...]
the oldest pre-made
Posted in Random Drinks, Rants on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In today’s Washington Post, the inimitable Jason Wilson writes about pre-made cocktails: those horrible, day-glo things in tacky bottles that, I have to admit, I like snickering at while I smirkingly caress my soon-to-be-purchased bottle of Laird’s Bonded. Funny enough, he fails to mention a summer classic that may be (I say “may be” because [...]
poor fred
Posted in Random Drinks on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes you run across a drink that is not sophisticated, even though it’s made with good ingredients, and not even really interesting; it’s just so delicious that you know this, this is the drink that will finally get your friend who always claims s/he “doesn’t like the taste of alcohol” to down a couple (at [...]
Hayman’s Old Tom Gin and the Emerson Cocktail
Posted in Random Drinks on May 3, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Stopping by my local Piccadilly on the way home from the library last week (that’s right, I like to balance my educational experiences with a little bit of debauchery), I was delighted to find out that they had started to carry not only the new (old) formulation of Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth, but also Hayman’s [...]
a century of fakers – The Louisiana Flip
Posted in Random Drinks on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sadly, spring break is over and all the students are back on campus. There’s nothing as pretty as a college campus devoid of sorority girls tanning their already leathery skins on the quad in swimsuits, though the nearest beach is hundreds of miles away. The sudden drop in annoyances coincided with a sudden drop [...]
smash the basil… patriarchy?
Posted in Random Drinks on March 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m pretty devoted to eating seasonally (well, you know, except for the citrus I keep stocked year-long – what, you’ve never seen a hypocrite before?), but occasionally I break down, so last week, when I made pho from scratch, I also bought some basil to go into it, since pho without basil makes me sad. [...]
