Category: bar hacks
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Bar Hack: Calpico and the Birth of Beelzebubba
You can’t deny the greats: The White Russian, Egg Nog, Mudslide, Ramos Gin Fizz, Brandy Alexander, oh and let’s not forget clarified milk punch. Yeah, dairy. What is it about dairy that keeps us coming back for more? Where would we be without it? A sad life without cheese and butter. A long list of…
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Bar Hack: Sort of Fermented Kumquat-Vanilla Syrup
Oh the kumquat. Bearer of too many bad, lurid jokes. Here today, gone tomorrow. Most people, believe it or not, don’t even know what the hell one is. On top of all these bad traits, they’re one hell of a bite in the ass to prep. Anything small with lots of seeds will be that…
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Bar Hack: Bananum
Here we go. Daily blogging isn’t always sun and mai tais with your feet in the searing hot sand. Sometimes our still bare white asses have to share our well kept secrets in order to find grist for the mill (and keep the readers happy) or in this case, gist for the swill. Yes, yes,…
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Bar Hack: Lacto Tajin
What is an aging bartender to do with a bunch of lacto blueberries except put them through the trusty robo, load them onto a tray, and then throw their weird salty little asses into the dehydrator? These puppies were placed into 2% brine and left to sit, by the way, and the big idea here…
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Bar Hack: Prepping Cherimoya (and what to do with it afterward…)
Good morning budding home bartenders and fellow intoxicologists. Are you clueless and would like to know how to prep a cherimoya? I’ve had these weird fruits on the brain for a bit. They’re around here for a little while, maybe a couple of weeks, maybe a month, and then they’ll be gone for another year.…
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Bar Hack: Incognito Fruit Fly Catcher
This will be my claim to fame and it’s not even my idea. Denise came up with it and I took all the credit. I’ll make a million dollars off the invention, then she’ll take me to court, sue me, get paid, and I’ll die alone and penniless in a pauper’s grave. Hopefully one of…
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