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I was reading somewhere that athletes and folks who drink vitamin supplements have something they call “blender balls” they put in their drinks so they can keep the particles in suspension as they are exercising. Someone mentioned using them in a cocktail shaker. A visit to a local vitamin and supplement emporium yielded results.

Grand [...]

Darcy O’Neil, over at the Art of Drink blog, has proposed that Imbibers adapt the “Omnivore’s 100” meme and posted the following “Imbiber’s One Hundred“.
Instructions:
1) Copy this list into your blog, with instructions.
2) Bold all the drinks you’ve imbibed.
3) Cross out any items that you won’t touch
4) Post a comment here and link to [...]

Gradeal (Special) Cocktail
1/4 Dry Gin. (1/2 oz Northshore Gin #6)
1/4 Apricot Brandy. (1/2 oz Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot)
1/2 Bacardi Rum. (1 oz Havana Club Anejo Blanco)
Shake (I’d stir) well and strain into cocktail glass.
Tasty and sophisticated? Another drink that goes against the usual stereotypes of rum drinks.
Most of the google references I find [...]

Grace’s Delight Cocktail
(6 People)
Fill a large glass with broken ice and place in it 2 glasses of Whisky, 2 ½ glasses of French Vermouth and half a glass of Raspberry Brandy. Add the juice of half an Orange, a teaspoonful of Orange-flower water, 3 Juniper berries, a bit of Cinnamon and a little Nutmeg.
Stir [...]

Golden Slipper Cocktail
1/2 Liqueur Glass Yellow Chartreuse. (1 oz Yellow Chartreuse)
The Yolk of 1 Fresh Egg.
1/2 Liqueur Glass Eau de Vie de Danzig. (1 oz Danzig Goldwasser)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I guess an interesting point, if yer a cocktail geek, about the Golden Slipper, is that Robert Vermeire places it in with his [...]

The Golden Gate Cocktail
3/4 Orange Ice. (2 scoops Ciao Bella Blood Orange Sorbet)
1/4 Gin. (1 oz No. 209 Gin)
Place in shaker and shake ~~ no ice.
Talk about drinking your dessert or adult candy!
Totally the proto slushy margarita here!
Perhaps because my sorbet was a bit cold, it was tough to get the pieces of sorbet to [...]

Golden Ermine Cocktail
1/8 Italian Vermouth. (1/4 ounce M&R Sweet Vermouth)
3/8 French Vermouth. (3/4 oz Dolin Dry Vermouth)
1/2 Dry Gin. (1 oz Beefeater’s Gin)
Shake (stir, please) well and strain into cocktail glass.
A perfectly pleasant cocktail. Doesn’t quite reach the heights of the Fourth Degree for me, but an interesting Martini variation all the same. Nice color.
This [...]

Gloom Chaser Cocktail
1/4 Lemon Juice. (1/2 oz Lemon Juice)
1/4 Grenadine. (1/2 oz Homemade Grenadine)
1/4 Grand Marnier. (1/2 oz Grand Marnier)
1/4 Curacao. (1/2 oz Senior Curacao of Curacao)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
Really puzzling. Two kinds of orange liqueur and grenadine? Even more puzzling if you consider Grand Marnier to actually be a type of [...]

Note: The Savoy nights at Alembic have been on hiatus recently. There have been some rumors of their return. I will post when I know more.

Glad Eye Cocktail
1/3 Peppermint. (3/4 oz DeKuyper White)
2/3 Absinthe. (1 1/2 oz Lucid Absinthe)
(Dash Fee’s Mint Bitters)
Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.
I really was not looking forward [...]

Gin and Cape Cocktail
1/2 Caperitif. (generous 1 oz Lillet Blanc)
1/2 Dry Gin. (generous 1 oz No. 209 Gin)
Stir well and strain into cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon (oops! used orange instead.) peel on top.
Again, no real idea what Caperitif may have been like, so substituting Lillet Blanc, as Cocktaildb.com suggests.
A perfectly enjoyable cocktail. A [...]