Cocktails, Food, and Gardening South of the hill in Bernal Heights, CA
Block and Fall Cocktail
1/6 Anis del Oso or Absinthe (1/2 oz Verte de Fougerolles Absinthe)
1/6 Calvados (1/2 oz Germain-Robin Apple Brandy)
1/3 Brandy (1 oz Korbel VSPOP)
1/3 Cointreau (3/4 oz Cointreau)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another Savoy sweet-and-deadly in the style of the Between the Sheets. This one raises the ante slightly over [...]
Blenton Cocktail
1/3 French Vermouth (1 oz Noilly Prat)
2/3 Plymouth Gin (2 oz Plymouth Gin)
dash Angostura Bitters
(Twist Meyer Lemon Peel)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Another of the many, many 2/3 gin and 1/3 French Vermouth cocktails in the Savoy. A perfectly fine Martini variation, I felt improved with the addition of a twist [...]
As it happens, I enjoy a good dessert wine, (or “pudding wine” as our English friends call them,) from time to time.
I have an especial weakness for Sauterne and Tokaji Aszú. Well, not to mention Port, Trockenbeerenauslese, Pedro Ximénez…
Anyway, given this unhealthy interest in sweet wines, and an especial fondness for apples, I was [...]
Who could resist a beer with a label like this? Pirate cat on the label? I’m in!
Ran across this beer at the Harrison Street Whole Foods. They are also carrying Jolly Pumpkin’s Oro de Calabaza Ale. This is the first time I remember seeing Jolly Pumpkin Beer in California. Quite [...]
Sometimes I feel so happy
Sometimes I feel so sad
Sometimes I feel so happy
But mostly you just make me mad
Baby, you just make me mad
My friend Lance from My Life on the Rocks reminded me that for a Blue Curacao drink challenge I made another cocktail based on the Blanche.
Pale Blue Eyes
2 oz Plymouth Gin
1/4 oz [...]
After a very long wait, Dogfish Head beers are finally just about available in the San Francisco Bay Area.
According to this post on William Brand’s blog, What’s on Tap, DBI Beverage Inc. are “…just beginning distribution…Whole Foods, Bev Mo and other independent retailers will start receiving product deliveries next week.”
If you can’t wait, you’ll be [...]
Blanche Cocktail
1/3 Anisette (1/2 oz Anis del Mono Dulce or as Mrs. Underhill calls it, “Devil Juice”)
1/3 White Curacao (1/2 oz Brizard Orange Curacao)
1/3 Cointreau (1/2 oz Cointreau)
(dash Regan’s Orange Bitters)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Still trying to make my peace with these pesky after dinner cocktails. Imagining they are intended to [...]
Blackthorn Cocktail
3 Dashes Angostura Bitters
3 Dashes Absinthe (Verte de Fougerolles)
1/2 Irish Whisky (1 1/2 oz Redbreast Irish Whiskey)
1/2 French Vermouth (1 1/2 oz Noilly Prat Dry Vermouth)
Shake (stir - eje) well and strain into cocktail glass
The Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a bushy, spiny relative of the plum. It is often planted as living barbed wire [...]
Black Velvet
1/2 Guinness Stout
1/2 Champagne (Navarro Brut)
Pour very carefully.
This one arrived rather coincidentally, as we had some Navarro sparkling wine in the house. Can’t really say I see the point. Rather have a glass of decent sparkling wine or enjoy my Guinness. Perhaps a sweeter wine would be more of a match?
But, then I’ve never [...]
I can’t say that this was the best beer I’ve ever had, but the view from the deck certainly made it a lot more enjoyable.
Anyway, yes, vacationing for the last week.
We now resume our regularly scheduled posting…
