Friday cocktail – Elderflower & Gin; 2 summer variations
Light and refreshing. These are both good although Farandaville slightly prefers the 2nd one. Prosecco subbed for tonic.
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YIKES! 11,000 bottles of bourbon stolen!
If they show up in my neighborhood… I did some research, a relatively low cost bourbon, around $32 a bottle. The bottles, worth about $500,000, were taken in what company officials called a “coordinated cargo theft operation carried out in broad daylight.” It was a sunny Friday afternoon in Philadelphia when the driver of a … Read more
Friday cocktail – the Metropolitan
Delicious. A riff on a Manhattan, subbing cognac for bourbon or rye whiskey. Farandaville recipe – 2 oz. Louis Grimaud Cognac VS 1 oz. Cocchi sweet vermouth – an Italian vermouth 2 dashes angostura bitters Stir with ice and pour into your glass – nick and nora glasses here – with a cherry. Oh yeah! … Read more
Friday cocktail – the Cable Car
Very similar to the Sidecar (which we love) only substituting spiced rum for the cognac in the Sidecar. Farandaville recipe below the short video. Farandaville recipe 1.5 oz spiced rum (bacardi spiced rum) 3/4 oz. Dry Curacao 1 oz. lemon (fresh squeezed is best, no doubt) 1/3 oz demerara syrup (instead of the 1 oz … Read more
Friday cocktail – reprising the Greenpoint
I noticed that I’d posted this a year ago. But it is such a great cocktail I figured to do a repeat. the only trick – it’s hard to find yellow chartreuse – and green chartreuse does not work in this cocktail Farandaville recipe – virtually the same as the video 2 oz. Rittenhouse 100 … Read more
The Preakness – official cocktail!
The 2nd leg of the Triple Crown is this evening at 7PM. There is an official cocktail – called the Black-eyed Susan. Of course there are numerous renditions of the cocktail and three are in the video below. I will put the “official” official Pimlico Cocktail (thank you Gemini AI…) below and it’s the one … Read more
Friday (cocktail?) IPA – Fiddlehead!
A detour from a cocktail (very rare!) This brought on by a trip to Vermont this past week – no cocktails but Fiddlehead IPA (stands for India Pale Ale, originally brewed in Britain and exported to India “with high hop content and alcohol levels acting as preservatives to survive the long hot voyage from Britain”) … Read more
Friday cocktail – The Ward Eight !
Invented in Boston – good story having to do with politics (in Ward Eight) in Boston in the 1890’s. Farandavillle recipe Nice drink! Three out of four in Farandaville favored it – the thumbs down said “didn’t hit the right flavor profile.” But I liked it – very balanced. We did not use fresh orange … Read more
Friday cocktail – the modern Hunter
I posted the classic Hunter cocktail last Friday. It’s good and easy (two ingredients) to make. Go here if you want to see it. So here is the modern or contemporary version, also shown by Anders as he continues from where I stopped the above video. Our recipe – same as the video – and … Read more
Friday cocktail – The Cloister
Pretty good. Name comes from the fact that it uses Yellow Chartreuse, which of course comes from a Carthusian Monastery. It is in high demand because the monks only make enough of it, and it’s cousin Green Chartreuse, to support themselves in their sparse lifestyle. Anders video is quite long as he goes on about … Read more