Ever since I visited New Orleans last summer, I’ve been inordinately fond of two particular bottles in my liquor cabinet: the rich, luscious Sazerac 6-year-old rye whiskey, and New Orleans’ homegrown absinthe substitute, Herbsaint. There’s something about the younger Sazerac that is just so damn lovable; it’s not as crisp as many Pennsylvania-style ryes like… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Rye
MxMoIX: Getting Bitter All the Time
Here we are, folks — MxMoIX is upon us, and our good host Michael Dietsch from A Dash of Bitters has chosen as his topic — wait for it — bitters. If Michael had picked this one out ten years ago — hell, five years ago — it would have been a very sad, lonely… Continue Reading
Election Night
It’s midterm election night here in the U.S., and while the results are still coming in, it looks like there’ll be a significant change in Congress come January. While I’m a dedicated partisan in my personal life, I’ve always tried to avoid politics here on the Cocktail Chronicles, believing that a cocktail blog is like… Continue Reading
Frisco
I hate the name, too. In 1907, while San Francisco was still in shock from the devastating earthquake that had struck just a year before, a group of women from the Ladies Outdoor Art League of San Francisco formed an Anti-Frisco committee, labeling the nickname for the city “obnoxious,” and seeking to have the term… Continue Reading
Blinker
Great cocktails can come from grapefruit juice. Consider the Hemingway Daiquiri (aka, Papa Dobles) — rum, lime juice, maraschino liqueur and, for a nice twist of character, grapefruit. Or the Comet — an obscure mixture of cognac, grapefruit juice and Van der Hum liqueur, brought to light a while back by David Wondrich. And don’t… Continue Reading
