Underhill-Lounge

Thought I’d write up the main points from my presentation at Tales of the Cocktail.
Our panel was about Making Your Own Cocktail Ingredients.
The ingredients I covered were Swedish Punsch and Orgeat.
Four Main Reasons to Make Homemade Liqueurs and Syrups
1) Preservation. You’ve got a tree full of walnuts and the squirrels will eat them if [...]

Cordova Cocktail
2/3 Dry Gin. (1 1/2 oz Tanqueray)
1 Dash Absinthe. (Lucid Absinthe)
1 Teaspoonful Fresh Cream.
1/3 Italian Vermouth. (3/4 oz Cinzano Rosso)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I was making dinner and had some fennel fronds around, so I dropped a couple on top as a garnish.
This was kind of weird.
Cream, Gin, Sweet Vermouth, and Absinthe [...]