{"id":807,"date":"2008-07-02T07:48:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/07\/a-mountain-of-c.html"},"modified":"2008-07-02T07:48:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T07:48:37","slug":"a-mountain-of-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=807","title":{"rendered":"A Mountain of Crushed Ice and an Ounce of Bitters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.savemyblog.com\/e69e0f69-b5ee-40a3-ae18-2eacedf93a8d\/www.cocktailians.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/07\/02\/6a00d8345190b469e200e55381b9448833-640wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/screenshot011_2.jpg\" title=\"Screenshot011_2\" alt=\"Screenshot011_2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiare is a self-confessed &quot;hopeless syrup, bitters, infusion geek&quot; from Sweden who makes fantastic-looking cocktails topped with beautiful fruit garnishes, and takes amazing photographs of them, which you can view here in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13618264@N08\/sets\/72157605359369054\/\"> her Flickr set<\/a>. She&#8217;s also started a blog called, <a href=\"http:\/\/amountainofcrushedice.blogspot.com\/\">A Mountain of Crushed Ice<\/a>, that I&#8217;ll be following with great interest.<\/p>\n<p>I was particularly intrigued by her interpretation of the <em>Trinidad Especial <\/em>(pictured above), winner of the 2008 European Angostura Cocktail competition. Believe it or not, this drink contains over an ounce of Angostura bitters! Tiare claims it&#8217;s very aromatic, but not bitter. I made one last weekend and couldn&#8217;t finish it, so maybe I screwed up the recipe, or else my tongue just has too many bitter taste bud receptors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiare is a self-confessed &quot;hopeless syrup, bitters, infusion geek&quot; from Sweden who makes fantastic-looking cocktails topped with beautiful fruit garnishes, and takes amazing photographs of them, which you can view here in her Flickr set. She&#8217;s also started a blog called, A Mountain of Crushed Ice, that I&#8217;ll be following with great interest. I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seen-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}