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Category: Ingredients

  • Stirrings Blood Orange Bitters

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    One bar ingredient that I always have on hand is a bottle of Stirrings Blood Orange Bitters. They are that good combination of sweet and bitter, and add a special touch to a Manhattan or a champagne cocktail.  The bottle is larger than most standard bitters (12 oz.) and lasts for a long time.  They…

  • Stirrings Blood Orange Bitters

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    vidiot
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    One bar ingredient that I always have on hand is a bottle of Stirrings Blood Orange Bitters. They are that good combination of sweet and bitter, and add a special touch to a Manhattan or a champagne cocktail.  The bottle is larger than most standard bitters (12 oz.) and lasts for a long time.  They…

  • My first single-malt Scotch

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    Saturday night I found myself having a very good steak at Lark Creek in San Francisco after doing some shopping.  In the wine list, they also listed all the alcoholic libations they had, which is a plus in my book; I don’t like to have to go over to the bar to see if they…

  • My first single-malt Scotch

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    vidiot
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    Saturday night I found myself having a very good steak at Lark Creek in San Francisco after doing some shopping.  In the wine list, they also listed all the alcoholic libations they had, which is a plus in my book; I don’t like to have to go over to the bar to see if they…

  • Kola Tonic: New York Works In Mysterious Ways

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    vidiot
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    A couple weeks ago, I was casting about for ideas for this month’s Mixology Monday, and I flipped through Dr. Cocktail’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails (a truly wonderful book, by the buy), looking for brandy recipes.  I was intrigued by the Filmograph Cocktail for a couple reasons:  not only its wonderfully evocative name ("redolent…

  • Kola Tonic: New York Works In Mysterious Ways

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    vidiot
    in

    A couple weeks ago, I was casting about for ideas for this month’s Mixology Monday, and I flipped through Dr. Cocktail’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails (a truly wonderful book, by the buy), looking for brandy recipes.  I was intrigued by the Filmograph Cocktail for a couple reasons:  not only its wonderfully evocative name ("redolent…

  • A Question

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    vidiot
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    I’m looking forward to participating in my very first Mixology Monday in a week or so; the topic this time around is Brandy (you’re a fine spirit), and I think I’ll enjoy trying to put together a new drink or discovering an old one.  A question, though:  what brandy to use?  I feel like I…