Comments on: MxMo Vodka — Wait, what?

By: Looking Around The Bar | Mix Pour Sip

Looking Around The Bar | Mix Pour Sip — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:11:47 +0000

[...] Paul over at the Cocktail Chronicles is finally allowing Vodka on his site by way of a long forgotten classic cocktail The Gypsy. [...]

By: SLJ

SLJ — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:24:18 +0000

Infuse some decent vodka with rosemary: 1.5 oz of that, .5 oz Cointreau, .5 oz lime juice & club soda.

I also highly recommend zubrowka, chilled, and sipped.

Also Nemiroff (from the Ukraine)Honey & Pepper, also sipped.

Na zdrowie!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:11:11 +0000

Vodka does seem to do a nice job of “cutting” the flavor of your real base spirit, and it’s a trick we’ve been employing more lately. The Vesper is probably the most common example in contemporary bartending. During the OVAL TDN Gabe used vodka to cut Zirbenz to nice effect, or at least nice enough to win the poll for that week. I wonder if vodka could cut Maraschino’s potentency in the same way.

I’m not sure about the Drink Without A Name though. I sometimes use Cointreau to cut Chartreuse, so the vodka seems a bit redundant.

By: graham jenks

graham jenks — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 07:03:18 +0000

Perhaps, Vodka is rife with abuse possibilities via its amiability, its…neutral nature, not unlike Reason:”Yet we keep returning to reason precisely because it occupies the middle place: it is the revisiting point on the swing of the pendulum between scepticism and enthusiasm.”[F. Fernandez-Armesto].

Frankly, sometimes amid the profusion of multi-syllabic entrees, wholly obscure ingredients, with ongoing like-kind divertissiments’ in mixology, one yearns for a crisp dill pickle[alone and expressent of only its self] upon a demure and clean plate accompanied with an amount consistent with ‘temporal departure of self’ of a Vodka within good glass, interdependent with ice, graced with a mindfully prepped piece of lemon peel.
Actual, vulnerable communing may take place thereafter, whither or come what may.

By: Joel Finsel

Joel Finsel — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:04:39 +0000

Interesting take on vodka as “a vehicle and softener for bold flavors, rather than simply as an alcohol-delivery device.”

Thanks for that.