A 2021 re-discovery of the 1950’s ‘Atomic’ cocktail, from bomb-test parties in the Nevada desert. What started as a Covid lock-down activity, in the 105-day Sydney second-wave of the Delta-strain, is now a continuing journey through the cocktail’s of the past. This time, the post-WWII ‘Atomic’ cocktail from the dawn of the nuclear age. ATOMIC…
A Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘Snowball’ cocktail. Lock-down has inspired me to explore this cocktail, popular in England from the 1950’s, especially at Christmas, and reaching its peak in the 1970’s. Including making your own Advocaat liqueur at home. SNOWBALL Our first encounter with Advocaat, a thicker egg-yolk liqueur that doesn’t keep particularly…
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’ 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…
A Sydney ‘lock-down’ version of the World War One ‘Sidecar’ cocktail. Sydney’s Covid Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic 1918 ‘Sidecar’ Cocktail. SIDECAR Created sometime around the end of World War One (around 1918) in either Paris or London. Named after the ‘motorcycle sidecar’ of…
A Sydney ‘lock-down’ version of the famous Corpse Reviver cocktail. Sydney’s Covid Lockdown has inspired me to explore this simple cocktail and take it back to its roots. Here is the resulting ‘Covid Reviver’ recipe and some cocktail background. COVID REVIVER Back in 1861, London’s Punch magazine named the ‘Corpse Reviver’ cocktail, but no recipe…
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