A Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Vieux Carré’ cocktail, two official recipes, and my Sydney Lock-down re-mix. The #Locktail Vieux Carré. Lock-down has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail, no questions on the New Orleans origination and history of this classic cocktail, but there is certainly healthy debate about how to make it.…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ Margarita cocktail, in a contemporary frozen variation. Lock-down has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the almost 100-year old ‘Margarita’ cocktail and construct a 2021 ‘make-at-home’ Frozen Margarita remake. FROZEN MARGARITA There are at least half-a-dozen origin stories for the Margarita. What is clear is that…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Boulevardier’ cocktail. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Boulevardier’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s amazing history and changing construction. BOULEVARDIER Created or at least kept alive by Erskine Gwynne in 1927 as both a cocktail and a…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Bacardí Cocktail’. Lockdown inspired cocktail rediscoveries. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Bacardí Cocktail’, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction, and why you need to make your own Grenadine Syrup. BACARDÍ COCKTAIL First turning up in historical records in around 1913, the Bacardí Cocktail is…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Mary Pickford’ cocktail. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Mary Pickford’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction. Not one of the best classics, but certainly a cocktail that set a path for pretty contemporary evolutions.…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Sea Breeze’ cocktail, also known before the 1930’s as the ‘Sea Breeze Cooler’. I feel that this old classic needs a 2021 make-over. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail, a little tired and lost to time. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Sea Breeze Cooler’…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Salty Dog’ cocktail, a salted-rim version of an even earlier cocktail known as the ‘Greyhound’. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Salty Dog’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction. If you’re a Gin and Grapefruit…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Buck’s Fizz’ cocktail, you may also know the very similarly constructed ‘Mimosa’ cocktail. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail, created in 1921. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Buck’s Fizz’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s construction and history. BUCK’S FIZZ / MIMOSA Created…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Brandy Alexander’, and earlier ‘Alexander’ cocktails. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Alexander’ cocktail, and the cocktail that supplanted it, the ‘Brandy Alexander’. BRANDY ALEXANDER John Lennon’s favorite cocktail, which he said “tasted like milkshakes”. Invented just before Prohibition…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Bloody Mary’, perhaps the best known ‘morning after the night before’ group of cocktails. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Bloody Mary’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction. I am also going to explain my…
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