For the past couple of months, I have been joining a lively crew over at the Mixoloseum for Thursday Drink Night.
Quoting Rick over at Kaiserpenguin, the founder of this event:
“When Thursday Drink Night began as a small gathering of booze nerds who just wanted another excuse to hang out and mix cocktails, I had no idea we’d be looking back a year later at 500 original cocktails and a mountain of prestige.
Brands are now building TDN into their marketing budgets, and it has become the “cool thing to do” as word continues to spread. And not little brands, but huge marketing behemoths like Diageo. Live events are no longer a special treat, but built into nearly all upcoming sponsored nights.”
“The Mixoloseum has hosted 50 Thursday Drink Nights since the first mixological day. In that time, cocktail enthusiasts, writers, and bartenders have created over 500 original cocktails using everything from Fernet Branca to buttermilk.
Guests who once came in fear of all the homemade syrups and bitters being slung about like fool’s gold in the chat room now make their own cinnamon syrup, have two local sources for Ting (in case one runs out), and don’t bat an eye when someone calls yellow Chartreuse instead of green.”
TDN is all about creating cocktails based on the weekly theme, tasting, and tweaking and adjusting recipe in real time, and more importantly, having a good time doing it. I have to say, that participating each week has certainly got my creative juices going.
Tonight’s theme was Tequila, and having recently acquired a bottle of Yellow Chartreuse thanks to Rod Phillips over at Liquor Plus, I wanted to put it to good use. The result was:
- 1.5 0z. tequila reposado
- 0.75 oz. Yellow Chartreuse
- 0.5 oz. simple syrup
- 1 egg
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Shake vigorously with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
Recently, the drink recipes started going live each thursday night on twitter, over at @mixoloseum, so you can see a running tally as they are submitted.
TDNs happen every thursday from 7 pm EST in the Mixoloseum chatroom – http://bar.mixoloseum.com/ Enjoy, and remember, “there is always a queue!”
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