Stories about drinks – where they come from, why they work, and how to make them
Triple Sec generally, and especially Cointreau, have featured heavily on the blog this winter. With winter citrus comes good pairing with a spicy orange liqueur, and that’s the primary theme I’ve explored for the last two months. What’s definitely been missing is any discussion of Grand Marnier; like Cointreau, it’s French and tastes like oranges. … Read more
After messing around with the Cosmo last week, I was looking for a good riff on that drink. Essentially, this means incorporating citrus and cranberry. It helps that cranberry will almost certainly make the drink pink, which felt right for Valentines Day. This is an original cocktail that, while certainly informed by reading a whole … Read more
Once I decided I was going to be writing a lot about triple sec this winter, I knew I was going to write about the Cosmopolitan. I expected it to be a takedown of the cocktail culture of the 90s because the drink sucks but got popular anyway because of a TV show. Unfortunately for … Read more
The Corpse Reviver #2 is the more popular of the two corpse reviver drinks that were created in the late 19th century. The drinks are extremely different, with #1 being a riff on a Manhattan and #2 being its own beast entirely. #2 is tailor-made for this blog because it combines vermouth and triple sec … Read more
The margarita is one of the most classic cocktails in existence. They can be expertly-crafted, intriguing libations. They can also be sickly-sweet frozen sludge that comes out of a machine somebody paid way too much money for based on an old song. (If we’re talking margarita songs, I prefer the one from Mas Ysa on … Read more
The Fruit I don’t remember knowing winter citrus was a thing until our first winter in Seattle. We lived right by a fancy coop that we used for fill-in grocery shopping. I ran in on a random weekday evening and came out with (probably) $40 worth of citrus I had never even seen before. They … Read more