Mixology Lab: cocktails and friends

Tonight we experiment with a couple of seasonal Halloween inspired drinks.   

Poison Apple Martini Found online at Half Baked Harvest

Pumpkin Kentucky Mule with Ginger and Spice

A Pumpkin Kentucky Mule with Ginger and Spice is "autumn in a glass"... Pumpkin butter (homemade or purchased), bourbon, ginger beer, and cardamom bitters get garnished with a cinnamon stick and candied ginger. This simple cocktail may become your new fall favorite ingredients

Found online at Beyond Mere Sustenance

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Sangria

1/2 medium apple (cored, skin on, chopped into small pieces)

1/2 medium orange (rind on, sliced into small pieces, large seeds removed // plus more for garnish)

3-4 Tbsp organic brown sugar (or 3 Tbsp (37.5 g) organic cane sugar as original recipe is written)

3/4 cup orange juice (plus more to taste)

1/3 Disarano Amoretto (used in podcast) or a cup brandy (plus more to taste)

750 ml bottle dry Spanish red wine*

~1 cup Ice to chill

Amber Road

1 1/2 oz Bourbon

1 oz Aperol

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

1/4 oz maple syrup

Shake with ice

Strain into a tall glass with Ice

Add 1 dash of Angostura bitters

Add 2 oz soda

Garnish with a lemon wheel and a fresh sprig of mint

Another Zoom session while we all continue to shelter in place.   Today we are trying some lighter drinks as. we prepare for Easter.  

Strawberry Champagne Mojito

1 cup diced strawberry’s

12-14 mint leaves

4 teaspoons superfine sugar or simple syrup

4 oz of fresh lime juices

4 oz of white rum

1 bottle of champagne

Place 1/4 cup of strawberries, 3-4 mint leaves, 1 teaspoon sugar (or simple syrup) and 1 ounce of lime juice in the bottom of a champagne glass. Using a muddler, crush the strawberries and mint to release the oils. Stir in 1 ounce of rum. Top with champagne until the glass is filled. Garnish with strawberries and fresh mint leaves, if desired.

Found online at The Suburban Soapbox

Lemon-Lime Drop

6 mint leaves

6-7 small cubes

1/2 oz Simple syrup

2 oz kettle one

1 full lime squeezed

2 oz lemonade

The second drink was shaken, strained and served straight up

Bloody Good - Killer Bloody Mary Mix

We’ve never found a better tasting Bloody Mary mix. During a decade of serving locals and tourists alike, a master mixologist in Sausalito, California developed this flavorful blend. Handcrafted in small batches using only the finest ingredients.

Bloody Mary Mix - Bloody Good

2 oz Vodka

Tonight we try doing a Zoom podcast for the first time.   Trying some of the touted cocktails on the internet and making up a few of our own.   Our effort to stay close as friends during this challenging time.   Be well all and don't take this podcast to seriously as you join us for a drink. 

Cheers 

Mixology Lab

The Search & Rescue

Steps

Created by Blake Pope, beverage director at Kindred Restaurant in Davidson, North Carolina, this ruby port-enhanced Whiskey Sour transcends trends and seasons. “I use Quinta de Novol’s ruby port—a younger style that’s jammy and rich—which gives this cocktail loads of body,” Pope says. “The port also softens and sweetens a bracing combination of overproof rye whiskey, lemon juice and the bitter Italian digestif Cynar.” Shaken together, the cocktail is downright addictive and amazingly good with Southern food like fried chicken and country ham biscuits.

Boulevardier

Ingredients

Loosely translated, a boulevardier is a man-about-town. The cocktail by the same name was created by Erskine Gwynne, the publisher of “Boulevardier,” a magazine for expats living in Paris in the 1920s. It’s a tidy story, just like the drink it inspired. Equal parts whiskey, vermouth and Campari, the Boulevardier is both adaptable and adored for its balance of bitter, boozy and sweet. Choose your ingredients wisely. The best Boulevardier, like the best Negroni, hinges on a happy marriage between base spirit and vermouth.

Back for the first episode of the year as we explore Green Chartreuse in a drink.   

Green Point Cocktail

2 oz bullet Rye

1/2 sweet vermouth 

1/2 Whiskey

1 dash saffron bitters 

Garnished with Lemon peel and 2 luxardo cherries  

Luexardo Cheryl  

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Don't take this one serious.   

We are finishing up the year talking about random things but, goals for next year and just chatting for this short episode.  Have a great Holiday and a Happy New Year!

Holly Jolly Holiday Drink - Made by Mike "the Fact Checker" 

2 oz Vodka 

1/2 oz Saint Germain elderflower liquor

Blood Orange Juice

2 tablespoons pomegranate seeds

Garnished with Mint leaf's

Ginger beer splash on top

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Tonight we embark on our first Tequila tasting but first, start out with a tasty cocktail.  

It's Greek to Me Mixed By "Mike, the fact-checker"

4 Slices of Ginger

1 oz Casamigos Anejo  Tequila 

1/2 oz Mavrakis Tsipouro

1 oz Lime juice

3/4 oz Chambord

1/2 oz agave

1 dash of angostura bitters 

Muddle the ginger in the shaker and add all ingredients and shake.  pour over ice and strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a sage leaf.

found at Avra Madison in NYC

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Join us this week as we try another Gin Based salad drink 

Autumn Apple Gin  

2oz Venus Gin 

2oz Apple Cider

 1/2oz lime juice 

1 oz homemade honey simple syrup

dash of cinnamon

sprig tree = thyme

5-6 cubes of ice

chopped apples 

Then it goes downhill as we do some blind whiskey tasting.  

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