{"id":943,"date":"2008-01-05T03:02:37","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T03:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cocktailians.com\/2008\/01\/a-question.html"},"modified":"2008-01-05T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T03:02:37","slug":"a-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/?p=943","title":{"rendered":"A Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to participating in my very first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocktailchronicles.com\/2006\/04\/11\/mixology-monday\/\">Mixology Monday<\/a> in a week or so; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocktailchronicles.com\/2007\/12\/17\/the-people-have-spoken-damn-them\/\">topic this time around is Brandy<\/a> <small>(you&#8217;re a fine spirit)<\/small>, and I think I&#8217;ll enjoy trying to put together a new drink or discovering an old one.&nbsp; A question, though:&nbsp; what brandy to use?&nbsp; I feel like I have a semi-decent handle on what brands I prefer for a lot of other spirits, but I feel like I&#8217;m clueless when it comes to brandy &#8212; and for some reason, the various guides to brands that I&#8217;ve seen around don&#8217;t seem to ever include brandy.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve been doing so far:&nbsp; standing blankly in front of the shelves at my local liquor store (which is both well and peculiarly stocked), pondering for a while, and then grabbing a VS cognac more or less at random.&nbsp; It seems to work out okay, and I like my Sidecars just fine, but:&nbsp; is this overkill?&nbsp; Should I be looking at Armangnacs, other Cognacs, or other brandies?&nbsp; Talk to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to participating in my very first Mixology Monday in a week or so; the topic this time around is Brandy (you&#8217;re a fine spirit), and I think I&#8217;ll enjoy trying to put together a new drink or discovering an old one.&nbsp; A question, though:&nbsp; what brandy to use?&nbsp; I feel like I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingredients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","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=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cocktailians.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}