20th July, 2010 | Tags: | 1 Comment
 

I’m too lazy to make cocktails with herbs or fruits. Yes, they are so tasty but depend heavily on the fruits or herbs I have at the moment. So making the same cocktails today, I can’t get the taste I had yesterday and the cocktail I’ll make tomorrow won’t be the same that I made today.

Maybe I’m just an amateur, and that situation is disappointing for me.

But this summer there are so many plants and berries in season… It’s hard to resist that temptation.

This time I used peaches, mint and ginger in  Bourbon & Peach Smash, the beautiful recipe by Alberta Straub.

Bourbon & Peach Smash

Despite its components are easy to find, I slightly adapted the recipe. Maybe that’s not right but I’m used to do so because I like to find something new experimenting with components and proportions.

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15th July, 2010 | Tags: , | 4 Comments
 

We have an abnormal hot weather here in Moscow. No rains, dust, burning hot stone. Absolutely no intention to do anything. Cocktails I drink now are extremely simple.

But there was one exception when I have been told to use some basil we gathered at our garden. Gin Basil Smash, a cocktail I saw at  Gin, Not Vodka was so interesting, and I’ve summoned all my strength to do it.

Gin Basil Smash

By the way, Daniel Nadasi in his article about Gin Basil Smash mentioned that Jay Oh Gosh! Earlier wrote about it too. And Jay mentioned that Gin Basil Smash has been invented at Le Lion Bar in Hamburg, the place which Daniel Nadasi visited before writing that article (and the place that article was about).

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8th July, 2010 | Tags: , | 2 Comments
 

One day I’ve red a little story about a cocktail made by Murray Stenson, bartender at Zig Zag Café, Seattle, USA. That article has been written by well-known mixology expert Gary Regan for his San Francisco Chronicle column. It was very warm-hearted text among other things.

I was intrigued with such complex ingredients combination – whiskey and equal parts of cherry brandy, lime and Fernet Branca.

Porteno

That cocktail is called Porteño. As far as I know it means Argentinean who lives in Buenos Aires. Another interesting fact is that Argentineans are mad about Fernet. While all world drinks Coca-Cola with rum, they drink Fernando – Coca-Cola mixed with Fernet.

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