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My research on Abbott's Bitters can now be found in the following slidecast. Lot's of good info for those who are curious about the history. http://drnk.ca/xabbott
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Just wondering if anyone had any information on the origins of a cocktail called the Six Cylinder; 1/6 Gin 1/6 Sweet Vermouth 1/6 Dry Vermouth 1/6 Cherry brandy 1/6 Dubonnet 1/6 Campari Stir over ice, strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon twist. Harry McElhone's ABC of Making Cocktails...
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Hi All, I'm trying to find out a little more about the origin of whisky cocktails. Can anyone help me with more background on the these: 1. Old fashioned 2. Whisky Sour 3. Manhattan 4. Bobby Burns 5. Mint Julep 6. Rob Roy 7. Sazerac 8. Whisky Mac 9. Blood & Sand 10. Coronation 1937 Cocktail 11...
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Hi All, I'm trying to find out a little more about the origin of whisky cocktails. Can anyone help me with more background on the these: 1. Old fashioned 2. Whisky Sour 3. Manhattan 4. Bobby Burns 5. Mint Julep 6. Rob Roy 7. Sazerac 8. Whisky Mac 9. Blood & Sand 10. Coronation 1937 Cocktail 11...
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I recently stumbled upon an old newspaper article from the New York times archive where the journalist chronicled a cocktail that was designed by a Johannesburg bartender called the Victory Cocktail. It apparently required a lot of eggs. So many that the popularity caused a shortage in wartime Johannesburg...
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Dear Cocktail Lovers, I uploaded a book I really like to scridb: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19418337/1939-La-Florida-Cocktail-Book-Havana-Cuba As fare as I know it is called: La Florida - named after the great and world famous Bar now known as La Floridita. I have a few questions, maybe someone can answer...
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$19.95 No spoilers included. ------------------------- The book is written in three parts – "the tale" (178 pages), the recipe (3 pages), and the addendum (24 pages). The tale is a fictionalized account of the author’s search for the recipe, in which the narrator and his wife visit...
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Unfortunately I don't have a grandma about to ask. She died many years ago but I did manage to salvage an old school bottle of Angostura bitters from the pocessions she left behind (God bless my old Granny's soul, may she rest in peace)! The bottle is pictured bellow on the left, next to the...
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I inherited a bizarre booze collection last year, though mostly pedestrian there were a couple of gems, old bottle of parfait amour, crappy but profoundly tacky old bottle of Suntory (that I polished off with a kingly steak while re- watching Lost in Translation) and an old bottle of Angostura that I...
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Just to kick things off, here's something I stumbled upon. This is, as far as I know, the earliest mention of a strainer--and here it's a "cocktail strainer," no less, indicating that people were serving their drinks up (unless the strainer was going in the glass and people were sipping...