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Another week, another Thursday Drink Night! Tonight’s theme was Scotch, which I was a bit unsure about, not making use of a lot of scotch in cocktails here at home: however, after a taste of Talisker/Benedictine/Green Chartreuse thanks to Kaiser Penguin, in which I was smitten with scotch, I was a little more optimistic about my options [...] So here we sit in front of the fire, on the longest night of the year, Winter Solstice. It seemed only fitting that there should be a cocktail to celebrate the day (ok, we’re doing some pretty serious relaxing here Chez Real Food Made Easy!) I was initially inspired to use a good Canadian Whiskey, seeing as [...] Last Thursday Drink Night was retro-TDN (no rules in the octagon!) and I was trying to come up with a drink that used some of a bottle of earl-grey tea infused Plymouth Gin and draw down some of the bottle of Cinzano Orancio I have in the liquor cabinet. After reflection, I ended up making a few [...] It all started with a tweet this afternoon, prompted by discussion about spiced rum, of all things… There we have it. I responded that my take these days wld probably involve Calvados and Angostura, which I’m enjoying in many permutations and combinations lately, AND some cinnamon syrup. After this exchange, I was invited to “share [...] Tonight’s theme was gin: anything but London Dry Gin, which leaves things like Genever, the new style gins, and infused gins. I opted to use Saffron Gin, which is a beautiful, vibrant orange in the bottle, made by the French micro-distiller Gabriel Boudier. This particular gin has saffron, but also has notes of lemon and orange [...] |
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