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Ardent Spirits e-letter
Volume 10, Issue 1, January 3, 2008
by Gary Regan and Mardee Haidin Regan
© 2008 Reganomics, Inc.
This issue of the Ardent Spirits e-letter is sponsored in part by each
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In This Issue:
TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION!
NOT.
We really honestly believed that we started this rag in 1998, but when we
looked back at our archives we discovered that the first issue actually went out
in February 1999. This, then, give or take a month, is our ninth
anniversary.
By the time we discovered our mistake we'd already put together a
retrospective from past issues, so if you'd like to see some of our fave pieces
from the past nine, not ten, years just click the link below.
A Stroll Down Memory Lane with Ardent Spirits
Cheap Date
Gary's last trip of 2007 took him to
Bratislava--yes, it's the capital
of Slovakia which used to be part of
Czechoslovakia but now
it's its own country and The Czech Republic
is another country, and Prague is the
capital of that one, and yes, Gary went there, too. Geddit?
Wanna see what he got up to? Click the pretty picture
below.
The Cocktailian
image courtesy of the good folks at
quanya
Wanna see what
that Cheapskate Wondrich went and did now? God love him, he brought us a new
old drink:
Hot Links
Click this hot link to see the cool vid in which Robert Hess
and the Small Screen Network bring you an unusual tequila potion,
The Frostbite Cocktail
Potent Quotables
This quote, we think, brings new meaning to the
words, "Behave Yourself."
"As he stood with both hands flat on the bar swaying his big
body back and forth and pouring out a stream of abuse, Billy Edwards stepped
over and in a twinkling brought both fists down hard on the man's hands--you
could almost hear the bones crack! That was the surprise.
Then, before the brute could realize it, he grabbed him and
literally ran him out of the side door--I remember distinctly he pushed the man
so hard and so swiftly that he had to run to keep up the pace he had made.
That was 'bouncing' as a fine art."
Taken from a short story by William F. Mulhall in Valentine's
Manual of Old New York, 1923. Mulhall was a bartender at New York's
Hoffman House from 1882 until the early 1900s.
Bar Code
Giuseppe Gonzalez of
Flatiron Lounge Wins The 2007 Vinos
De Jerez Cocktail Competition
Hearty congrats to Giuseppe Gonzalez for his win in the 2007 Sherry Cocktail
Competition. And Congrats, too, to the runners up, Jim Meehan,
PDT (Please Don't Tell) and
Pegu Club, New York City and Don
Lee, PDT, New York City.
All three of these guys now get to go to Jerez with Steve
Olsen, founding partner in BAR,
and Giuseppe and Jim get scholarships to the BAR school, too. Not too shabby,
huh? Here's the winning cocktail:
Madrońo (Strawberry Bush) Cobbler
3 oz. Williams & Humbert Dry Sack Medium Amontillado
2 Strawberries.
2 cinnamon sticks
.5 oz Torani Amer
2 barspoons of Rich Demerara Syrup
Lightly muddle one strawberry in Torani Amer. Break cinnamon
stick in half into shaker. Add sherry. Shake lightly with a little crushed ice.
Serve in wine goblet. Top with more ice. Garnish with fanned strawberry, whole
cinnamon stick & straw.
For more information and to see all of the final recipes pay a call to
www.enjoysherry.com
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those pretty little bunny rabbits on it, and your car dealer sent you a calendar
full of pictures of motor cars from a bygone age, but if Ted "Doctor Cocktail"
Haigh isn't staring down at you from your office wall right now, well, you're
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