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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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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Build a Better Espressotini
Face the fire, walk through the flames, force your way across the scorching coals of oblivion, desire, and angst. Folks, the bad news is that I don’t think the espressotini is going away anytime soon. The good news? There is no good news. Yes, it should not be so annoying but it is. Maybe it’s…
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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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Bar Hack: Über Sherbet
No, this post isn’t about eating a frozen scoop in the back of an ultra clean new age taxi. We are here, once again, to speak of liquid delights. Shift gears and think for a moment-The mother sauces of the bar are citrus, sugar, and booze, yes? If so, then sherbet would clock in at…
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Bar Hack: Lacto Asian Pear
It started with this coming fall fruit season question: How to lacto ferment any pear, apple, asian pear without the damn things turning brown? Pretty easy actually. The answer is this: Instead of using just salt and water as your brine, use your old lemon juice and salt as a brine but call it something…
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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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Bar Hack: Coco Hwey Hwip
I have no idea what it is but people love themselves a little something whipped on top of a cocktail. Maybe it hearkens back to the old Blowjob shots from the 80s. Never had one? Well…Amaretto, Bailey’s float, sometimes Kahlua sometimes not, and then whipped cream from the canister. A dark but necessary time in…
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The Old Vodka Switcheroo
Listen, I judge no human being on their drink order. I really could care less if someone wants to quaff vodka sodas all night and experience no flavor or zest in their own life but there are two substitutions that drive me absolutely batty. And yes, yes, I know that technically everything is vodka…Whiskey is…
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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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Triumvirate of Cheese
Stay with me here. In no particular order but it will be. I’m thinking, thinking processing the information…Two years and three dudes. Bruckheimer. Bay. Woo. Another three dudes. Travolta. Connery. Malkovich. Yes, a tight, blockbuster span from 1996 to 1997. Are we getting the idea now? They all have one heroic man in common: Cage,…
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