Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Every year when Anchor Brewing releases its new Christmas Ale, we pick up a six pack and compare it to the previous year’s beer. Last year we finally finished our first six pack.
This year the holidays and various events have conspired to prevent us from holding our annual comparison before Christmas. But, I [...]
From the St. George Website:
St. George Absinthe Verte Update 12/22/07
Unfortunately, we have sold out of all our stock of absinthe!
We are in the process of making more and plan on having more in stock at the end of January. This time around, we are making twice as much to meet demand.
Be one of the first [...]
…Monkey?
After months of negotiation with the TTB, St. George finally has the approval to sell its “Brandy with Herbs.”
The original label involved a skull with crossed bones. Apparently, not funny.
Another label, involving a monkey beating two bones on a skull. Also, not funny.
Finally, a monkey beating a cowbell with a bone. TTB [...]
Over the years cocktails with a lot of drinks have been popular. Sort of compendiums of the state of the cocktail art, as it were. The first of these may have been “The Savoy Cocktail Book.” Other big ones include the various Mr. Boston Guides, Cocktail Bill Boothby’s “World Drinks and How [...]
A while ago I posted the series of Alexander Cocktails: Alexander Cocktail (No. 1), Alexander Cocktail (No. 2), and Alexander’s Sister.
I didn’t post an original cocktail of my own, that I liked best of the bunch. Sorry, Mr. Craddock, we always love our children the best.
But, since Marleigh over at Sloshed! is posting about [...]
Angel Face Cocktail
1/3 Dry Gin. (3/4 oz Softer Gin like Plymouth)
1/3 Apricot Brandy. (3/4 oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot liqueur)
1/3 Calvados. (3/4 oz AppleJack or Calvados)
Shake (stir please! ~Erik) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Gonna be a pretty different cocktail, depending on which apple spirit you choose. The Laird’s Bonded AppleJack is pretty [...]
This week’s beer comes from Port Brewing in San Marcos, CA.
I’m just going to to say it is a delicious beer and quote their label, as it seemed particularly meaningful to me this week:
From the French word “Garde” meaning something worth keeping, this Farmhouse Style Ale is most delicious companion to a loaf of freshly [...]
American Beauty
1 Dash Crème de Menthe. (Brizard)
1/4 Orange Juice. (3/4 oz Fresh)
1/4 Grenadine. (3/4 oz homemade*)
1/4 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Noilly Prat Dry)
1/4 Brandy. (3/4 oz Korbel VSOP)
Shake well and strain into medium size glass and top with a little port wine (Warre’s Warrior Porto).
I didn’t really have a lot of hope for this cocktail [...]
Well, that isn’t Soup Noodles, it’s a Fourth Degree Cocktail:
2 oz Junipero
1/2 oz M&R Sweet Vermouth
1/2 oz Dolin Vermouth
Dash Absinthe
Lemon Peel
Stir with ice and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel over drink.
I just love how you can see the little droplets of lemon oil on the surface of the drink.
The original drink from [...]
Almond Cocktail
(6 People)
Slightly warm 2 Glasses of Gin (2 oz Beefeaters Gin). Add a teaspoonful of powdered sugar (1/2 tsp. Caster Sugar). Soak in this six peeled almonds (4 halved and lightly roasted almonds) and if possible a crushed peach kernel (crushed plum kernel), and allow to cool. When the mixture is cold add [...]
