A Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the 1937 ‘San Francisco’ cocktail. Lock-down has inspired me to explore this lost cocktail, a celebration of Vermouth and Sloe Gin, strangely turning up in England in 1937 and mostly lost to time. With the renaissance in Vermouth, it’s time for the city-by-the-bay to bring it back! SAN FRANCISCO…
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 ‘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 ‘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 pre-Prohibition ‘El Presidente’ cocktail. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘El Presidente’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction and how important the right ingredients are to most cocktails. EL PRESIDENTE Most likely created in around…
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 ‘Fallen Angel’ cocktail. Lockdown has inspired me to explore this Prohibition era (1920–1933) cocktail, from a ‘lock-down’ of another sort. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Fallen Angel’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction. FALLEN ANGEL Today we know of the ‘Fallen Angel’ from…
Sydney Covid ‘lock-down’ exploration of the ‘South-Side’ cocktail, and maybe a Sydney 2021 upgrade or two? Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail, a Prohibition favorite of Al Capone. Let’s take a look at the classic ‘Southside’ cocktail, and explore some of the cocktail’s history and construction. Then for a first on the…
A Sydney ‘lock-down’ version of the famous pre-Prohibition ‘Clover Club’ cocktail. Sydney’s Covid Lockdown has inspired me to explore this famous cocktail. Let’s take a look at the once super-popular ‘Clover Club’, that only really started re-appearing on cocktail lists from around 2008. CLOVER CLUB Once the famed drink of a Philadelphia-based Gentlemen’s Club –…
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