Cynar and Stout?
Some dude came over to the bar from a table last night and said, “Hello, I’m European, my English is not so good. Do you have a stout?” “Yes.” “Do you have Cynar?” “Yes.” Will you pour me two ounces of Cynar into a glass and then put a stout over the top of it?”…
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Cynar and Stout?
Some dude came over to the bar from a table last night and said, “Hello, I’m European, my English is not so good. Do you have a stout?” “Yes.” “Do you have Cynar?” “Yes.” Will you pour me two ounces of Cynar into a glass and then put a stout over the top of it?”…
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Egg White Conclusions: Part Three
This will hopefully wrap up all of this whiskey sour/egg white nonsense. I don’t know how I started walking down this path. I thought it would be a simple explanation. Hard time catching up? Read parts one and two first, then circle back. This originally was just a rant about how annoying egg white cocktails–ahem,…
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Enter the Egg White: Part Two
Continued from yesterday’s post. Also some editorial stuff here. Ugh, I misspelled “cocktail” right in the title. Sometimes you’ve got to pay better attention, old timer. I actually misspell stuff quite a bit as I’m rushing to get these puppies out in the morning. Jo usually points them out to me. But “cockail?” Yeesh. I…
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The Egg White Cocktail is a Young Person’s Game
I will attempt to make this post as coherent as possible. It’s early, service was long and full of shaken drinks, and I’m dealing with an insane toddler who wants nothing more than to steal this time from me. There’s always a big playlist on the docket for Sundays and this one is no different,…
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Never Rub Another Man’s Rhubarb
I’m pretty sure the cliche of the mid life crisis is just a simple realization that you’re no longer the best version of yourself and when you were, you had no idea and took it all for granted. It has nothing to do with sports cars and chasing young women or men. I think men…
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Murphy’s Law
Big shout out and thank you to every single awesome regular who decided to come in last night when I had no barback…Sarcasm aside, it was nice to see everyone, even the guy with the big hair…The real question of the morning is, who is this Murphy guy and why is he always right? A…
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The Daiquiri is Still the Best
“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted it was worth knowing.” -Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary At the moment we don’t have a seasonal rum drink on the menu at Rustic. I woke early this morning to this grim, sad, and embarrassing realization. You see, rum is the…
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Cocktail Progressions
There’s a pantheon, folks. A “one before the other” type of progression, each riffing on the previous, that stretches out in a timeline into infinity or when it all comes crashing down. Will travelers from other worlds dig through the cold, dark husk of our dead planet when we finally drain it of all resources…
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Aperol is the New Bartender’s Ketchup
I’m pretty sure Death & Co. called elderflower liqueur “The Bartender’s Ketchup” in one of their books, possibly The Cocktail Codex (still waiting for the return on that one, Matt). I feel elderflower has faded a bit from the limelight and now Aperol, at least over here on Wilshire Boulevard, seems to go with nearly…
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New Cocktail: Anything is Fine
Life lessons. I had to make a return to the Home Depot in Playa del Rey at some point this Sunday so of course it plagued my sleep. I looked online yesterday to see what time they opened. 6:00 a.m. What time did I wake up this morning? 6:00 a.m. Some serious tossing and turning…
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