Tag: booze
Tasting Notes: Corsair Triple Smoke Single Barrel American Malt Whiskey. Single Down South.
Single Malt meet Cacao with Twice the Vice Spirited Chocolates.
Your weekly briefing is in covering Patagonia, NBA Analytics, Wine Crime, Recipes for Spring, and a special drink for the derby . We swear there’s a correlation.
Greenhook Ginsmiths Distillery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Led by ginsmith Steven DeAngelo, the distillery utilizes a vacuum method that lowers the atmospheric pressure and temperature in the still, which produces a more flavorful, aromatic spirit. ( Tasting Notes: Greenhook Ginsmiths American Dry Gin)
Never get screwed from not having a corkscrew again. How to open a wine bottle…using just a shoe.
According to drink authority Barnaby Conrad III, its origins are obscure and much debated. He posits, however, that the probable first recipe for this holy grail is in an 1896 manual by Thomas Stuart titled “Stuart’s Fancy Drinks and How to Mix Them.” It was called a “Marguerite Cocktail,” and into it went one dash of orange bitters, two thirds Plymouth gin, and one third French vermouth. “By 1900,” Conrad writes, “the word Martini was in common usage among bartenders on both sides of the Atlantic.
The origin of the Martini, discovered in The Perfect Martini by Christopher Buckley on The Daily Beast
Ordering on the rocks just got so much geekier.
GEAR PATROL, MMXII
