Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
The second annual San Francisco Cocktail Week is fast approaching. Held from May 13th to 19th, just about every bar and bartender in San Francisco seems to be planning something cool.
So far the things I am really excited about are this seminar at the Hotel Rex…
“Literature, Booze and History”
Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm
Location: The Salon at Hotel [...]
Blue Train Special Cocktail
(6 People)
Fill the shaker with cracked ice and pour into it 1 glass of Brandy (1 oz Korbel VSOP) and 1 glass Pineapple Syrup (3/4 oz pineapple juice, 3 tsp superfine sugar, stir to dissolve). Shake carefully, and then add 3 glasses of Champagne (3 oz Segura Viudas Brut Reserva Cava). [...]
Blue Train Cocktail
1/4 Lemon Juice. (1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1/4 Cointreau. (1/2 oz Cointreau)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Plymouth Gin)
1 Dash of Blue Vegetable Extract. (1 drop Blue Coloring)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass. (Lemon Twist.)
Aside from being blue, this cocktail has several close relatives. Among them are the Sidecar, the Margarita, and [...]
I thought the Blue Monday a fine opportunity to gather a few of the examples of Orange Liqueur I seem to have accumulated and do a little comparison.
From Left to Right, we have Luxardo Triplum, Brizard Orange Curacao, Senior Curacao of Curacao, and Cointreau.
Blue Monday Cocktail
1/4 Cointreau (1/2 oz Orange Liqueur)
3/4 Vodka (1 1/2 oz [...]
New Drys on the move again?
Higher state tax on beer?, By Mike Zapler, Mercury News Sacramento Bureau, 04/11/2008 01:34:17 AM PDT
SACRAMENTO - Joe Six-pack will have to pay a lot more to get his buzz on if Assemblyman Jim Beall has his way.
The San Jose Democrat on Thursday proposed raising the beer tax by $1.80 [...]
What can I say, sometimes on a hot day it’s nice to sit on the back porch and have a good, relatively simple beer. Especially, if you’re maybe a bit hung over from the night before.
Mirror Pond is fairly generously hopped for a Pale Ale, with lots of malty goodness. I suppose perhaps [...]
Blue Devil Cocktail
/2 Dry Gin (1 1/2 oz Boodles Gin)
1/4 Lemon Juice or Lime Juice (3/4 oz lemon Juice)
1/4 Maraschino (3/4 oz Luxardo Maraschino)
1 Dash Blue Vegetable Extract (1 Drop Blue Food Coloring)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
First, the Blue Devil does have a great name.
However, I can’t quite figure it out. It falls [...]
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Get your own
BLUE BLAZER
Use two large silver-plated mugs, with handles.
1 Wineglass Scotch Whisky. (2 oz Whiskey)
1 Wineglass Boiling Water. (About 1 oz Boiling Water)
Put the Whisky into one mug, and the boiling water into the other, ignite the Whisky with fire, and while blazing mix both ingredients by pouring them four or five times [...]
Blue Bird Cocktail
4 Dashes Angostura Bitters
3/4 Wineglassful of Gin (2 oz Tanqueray)
5 Dashes Orange Curacao (Teaspoon Brizard Orange Curacao)
Shake, (stir, please,) well and strain into cocktail glass. (Squeeze Orange Peel over drink.)
A 19th Century style Gin Cock-tail (Link to Jerry Thomas’ recipe on Art of the Drink) by any other name…
This post is one [...]
Blood and Sand Cocktail
1/4 Orange Juice (3/4 oz fresh Blood Orange Juice)
1/4 Scotch Whisky (3/4 oz Compass Box Asyla)
1/4 Cherry Brandy (3/4 oz Massenez Creme de Griotte)
1/4 Italian Vermouth (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso Vermouth)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
This one is supposed to be named after the 1922 movie of the same name featuring [...]
