Category: Cocktails!
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Old Cocktail: Okie Dokie Artichokie
Quick one here and I will start with a story to demonstrate what a dumb ass I used to be. Please note, I am still a dumb ass, just less of a dumb ass than before…Anyway, I worked at this truly terrible place in Dorchester once upon a time. A sloooooooooow Italian joint. I was…
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New Cocktail: Around the Bend
Adventure, excitement, a jedi craves not these things…But what about salt, bitterness, sour, umami, and sweetness? Can a single cocktail hold up and contain all five or will it crash and burn like the proverbial death stars in three out of the nine Star Wars movies? This one works off the principle of lacto fermenting…
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New Cocktail: Mango & Cash
Note the use of the ampersand as well as the oh so sweet mullet Kurt Russel sported back then. Back when this gem arrived, not to the silver screen but video, I was friends with this kid who worked at the video store…Video Plus on Dorset Street…and so had access to free movie posters and…
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New Cocktail: Everyone Cries at Rudy
Or is it for Rudy? Someone told me there was an episode of some TV show where all the characters cried while watching Rudy. Yes, the soft side of a man comes out during the viewing of this movie where he’s allowed to show his emotions for the underdog, the downtrodden. It’s just ingrained within…
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New Cocktail: Dr. Stanley Goodspeed
The Martinez machine keeps on rollin. He got ahold of the cochelery and put this puppy up with one try. I made it on a weird whim during a slow night and really had no idea it would be good at all. I had a long streak of the feces touch but I think making…
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New Cocktail: Slap Happy
This one is all about the salted, honeyed, fermented version of the plum we like to put out and if you can throw up a photo of the patented “‘Stockton Slap” then all the better, aye? Sometimes you put it all together. Like Hank Chinaski said in the novel, Ham on Rye, after besting a…
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New Cocktail: Milli Vanilli
Cherries, chocolate, vanilla. These flavors are basic building blocks from our collective childhoods that have been tampered with throughout the course of our adult lives because we’ve been subjected to much use of artificial flavors in a variety of ingestible household products. Hence, the chosen three are deeply ingrained within us but in possible negative…
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New Cocktail: Denise Loves Henry
Lets see here…Dimpled chin? Check. Over six feet? Check. Mega wealthy? Check. Insanely muscular but in a wholesome, beefy way? Check. Yes, the Henry is question is Mr. Cavill himself, one of the many winners of the genetic lottery that you and I were never part of. He’s also Denise’s main squeeze…At least in her…
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New Cocktail: Fool’s Gold
This is something I’ve obsessed about for a long, long time which shows you how my brain operates…The biggest hurdle was bringing peanut into the bar. Yeah, there’s so many weird allergies out there nowadays and peanut is one of the biggest. Unless you’re a Thai restaurant you’re probably leaving peanuts off the menu entirely.…
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New Cocktail: Peachy Keen 2024
Yeah yeah. The most used name of all time for a peach cocktail. Whatever. We’ve been doing this annually and each year bring the smoke with a different variation. I did try to think of something else, a different name but…Why? Cocktail names are annoying enough to come up with and people order this one…
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New Cocktail: Apro Quaffer
We all love an apricot, right? They work well in drinks but they’re the red headed step child of the stone fruits. In my youth I ate them dried and my sister and I would pretend they were the ears of our vanquished enemies. Hey, there wasn’t a whole lot to do in Vermont with…
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New Cocktail: Lionheart
I’m still on paternity leave. Massive sleep dep and being at the whim of not one, but two children now if you don’t count the dog. One small and sweet with a need to be fed every two hours or so and the other, a three year old toddler who just wants to play with…
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