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Archive for December 2011

30
Dec
Champagne Cocktail (detail), photo © 2011 Douglas M. Ford. All rights reserved.

The Champagne Cocktail

OK, so you have champagne for your New Year’s brunch. Seems a little blah, doesn’t it? Try the Champagne Cocktail instead.

The Champagne Cocktail is one of the oldest of cocktails, and one of the quickest and easiest to make. It turns a glass of everyday champagne into a much more sophisticated flavor treat. Read more »

21
Dec
Whiskey Sour (detail), photo © 2011 Douglas M. Ford. All rights reserved.

Dangerous Drinks: The Whiskey Sour

The Whiskey Sour is all about flavor balance. The drink is very simple—just a spirit, some fresh lemon juice, sugar and water. Too much lemon is just plain harsh. Too much sugar is cloying. Somewhere in between is a simple, tasty refresher. Like the Old Fashioned, it provides a welcome break from the flavor complexities of more sophisticated cocktails. Read more »

5
Dec
Twelve Mile Limit and Three Mile Limit Cocktails (detail), photo © 2011 Douglas M. Ford. All rights reserved.

Floating through Repeal Day: the Twelve Mile Limit Cocktail

December 5 is Repeal Day in the United States, the anniversary of the December 5, 1933, end of Prohibition. (Don’t get me started on Prohibition… )

Reason enough to examine a couple Prohibition-themed cocktails.

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2
Dec
Seelbach Cocktail (detail), photo © 2011 Douglas M. Ford. All rights reserved.

Got bitters? — the Seelbach Cocktail

It’s the Seelbach Cocktail’s extraordinary ingredient list that caught my eye. The Seelbach is a champagne-based cocktail, which in itself is uncommon—there are only a handful of champagne cocktails in the canon. And it includes a healthy dose of bourbon as homage to its Kentucky heritage. But the shocker is that it also includes seven dashes—seven—of Angostura bitters.

But wait, there’s more: we need seven dashes of Peychaud’s, too. What th’…? Read more »

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