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Ardent Spirits e-letter
Volume 9, Issue 16, October 4, 2007
by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
© 2007 Reganomics, Inc.
This issue of the Ardent Spirits e-letter is sponsored in part by each
of these fine products.*
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In This Issue:
Cheap Date
We're using the Cheap Date heading as a cheap
trick to tell you about the Cocktailian Calendar that the
Museum of the American
Cocktail just issued. It's a doozy. And since calendars contain
dates--around 365 of them usually--we though that this kinda sorta fit here.
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How the heck Doctor Cocktail made the cover we'll never
know, especially when there are hunks such as Mr. April around . . .
The Cocktailian
image courtesy of the good folks at
quanya
Heaven? Almost, it's a Purgatory Cocktail
August 31, 2007
Nobody names a cocktail Purgatory unless
it's one very serious drink, and the man who created this potion, a certain Ted
Kilgore, bartender and bar manager at the Monarch Restaurant in Maplewood, Mo.,
is known to me as being a pretty serious cocktailian. A few months ago, then,
when the recipe for Purgatory first crossed my desk, I knew that the chances
were good that I was in for a treat. Kilgore didn't disappoint . . .
Hot Links
More cool videos from The Cocktail Spirit with Robert Hess
Tales of the
Cocktail - Final Days We have been reminiscing about our great time in New
Orleans. Here is our final video from Tales of the Cocktail. Hope you enjoy it.
The Harrington
posted last Monday Vodka is the most popular of spirits, it's lack of
discernable flavor however, when mixed in a cocktail, makes it necessary to
approach it's use slightly differently than other spirits. In this episode we
use the "Harrington" to illustrate how vodka can play an important role in
various drinks.
The Mojito The Mojito seems to be "the" drink these days, but this drink
dates from before the 1930's, where it was a popular drink in cuba to refresh
and relax with. In the late 1940's the drink burst onto the international scene
when it was "discovered" by Enest Hemmingway at "La Bodeguita del Medio".
Properly made, a mojito should always be made with fresh mint and fresh lime
juice, but due to its ubiquitous popularity, you will often find bars using
various unfortunate shortcuts to make them quicker, but sacrifice the quality in
doing so.
The Whiskey
Sour Continuing with our coverage of Whiskey, in this episode we show you
how to make a "Whiskey Sour". While these days the Sour is lumped into the
Cocktail category, technically it is a drink style all its own, and includes
such drinks as the Daiquiri, Margarita, Lemon Drop, and even Cosmopolitan.
From Glen to Glen - Scotch - Presented by Charlotte Voisey Our very special
friend, Charlotte Voisey of William Grant and Sons USA, gave a superb
presentation on single malt Scotch while at Tales of the Cocktail in New
Orleans. Fortunately, Small Screen Network was there to capture it all. We hope
you enjoy it! Please check out Glenfiddich
and Balvenie for more on these fine
products.
Potent Quotables
"The Barkeep [at Jack's, a
speakeasy in the basement of a brownstone in Greenwich Village] is Jimmy . . . polite, naïve when it
suits him to be so, but all-seeing and all-knowing."
The Speakeasies of 1932, by Gordon Kahn and Al Hirschfeld.
Bar Code
How's Your Drink is a fascinating, entertaining, informative, gossipy little
jewel of a book by Eric Felten,
a true Renaissance man who writes the popular drinks column of the same name in
the Wall Street Journal. Find tons of drink trivia here, all
ripe for the stealing by the likes of other drinks writers such as, well, no,
we'd never do that . . .
Do yourself a favor and order a few copies of this gem.
They'll come in very handy come December.
Click on the book cover to order from Amazon.
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On the House with Jack Robertiello
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On the House with Jack Robertiello
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