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drink/impulses/parentheses

Posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019 by William Cox

A couple of pages later in Chronogram, what appears to be a lovely little cocktail made with a pine shrub and bitters: The Evergreen. Since there is no citrus i...

drink/poem

The Morning After

Posted on Monday, February 4th, 2019 by Will Cox

Super Bowl LIII

drink

The Scoff-law Cocktail

Posted on Monday, December 5th, 2011 by Will Cox

The word “Scofflaw” has come to mean “A person who flouts the law, especially an unsustainable one.” But such was not always the case. I...

drink/food

Grenadine

Posted on Sunday, December 4th, 2011 by Will Cox

Many cocktails call for grenadine, which, it seems, is much more than Red No. 40 and high-fructose corn syrup. It’s pomegranates! Who knew? (The FDA seems...

drink

The Mexican Eagle

Posted on Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 by Will Cox

Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention. That’s not quite exact. Limits are. When one is out of one’s preferred spirits, has no citrus stock...

drink/family

Grandmother’s Lemonade

Posted on Saturday, June 25th, 2011 by Will Cox

The hot days of Summer call for a cool drink, shade, and a lazy breeze through the apple trees. If my taste memory serves, this is Grandmother’s Lemonade....

drink

Margarita, Won’t You Come to My Party?

Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2011 by Will Cox

For those interested in the recipe for the gallon of Margaritas which was consumed at my party yesterday, I used Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s recipe from A Gall...

drink

On the Julep

Posted on Friday, May 13th, 2011 by Will Cox

A dram of spirituous liquor that has mint steeped in it, taken by Virginians of a morning. The Mint Julep is rumored to have led to as many arguments over the n...

drink

Dark and Stormy

Posted on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 by Will Cox

First you should know that I am not from Bermuda. And while I once visited on a cruise, I drank only beer while I was there, so have no first-hand confirmation ...

drink

Naval Stores

Posted on Friday, April 1st, 2011 by Will Cox

Until Firefox gets the hang of tracking paths through the browser history, I can’t quite say exactly who started this idea in motion, but I can say what d...

drink

Uisge-beatha

Posted on Thursday, March 17th, 2011 by Will Cox

To make Irish Usquebaugh; from Lord Capell‘s Receipt, when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. To every Gallon of French-Brandy, put one Ounce of Liquorice...

drink

Bloody Mary is the … Girl I Love

Posted on Saturday, January 22nd, 2011 by Will Cox

Happy 3rd Birthday, No. 2 Son! Soon we’ll have the family over for a party in your honor, and they’ll be drinking some stuff you can’t, yet. I...

drink

Spirits of Any Kind

Posted on Sunday, January 9th, 2011 by Will Cox

Now that I have more than two bitters in the house, let us try something. A cocktail is spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters. How about an Old-Fashion...

drink

What Fashion of Gimlet Might This Be?

Posted on Wednesday, January 5th, 2011 by Will Cox

Having acquired an essential ingredient in the Deadrise, I find myself without another: the cucumber. Well, there’s nothing to it then but to make the nec...

drink/family

Harvest Punch

Posted on Monday, December 27th, 2010 by Will Cox

We typically host Christmas Day dinner at our house, after my brother-in-law and his wife host the Feast of the Seven Fishes at his. Christmas Day is a more sub...

drink

Egg Nog

Posted on Friday, December 24th, 2010 by Will Cox

Mr. Boston’s Official Bartender’s and Party Guide (64th Edition) (Warner Books, 1994) has this to say on the subject of egg nog. Eggnog can be made ...

drink/economics

When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Drink Cocktails

Posted on Thursday, December 16th, 2010 by Will Cox

J. T. Dobbs at American Drink asks, Is it a coincidence that on the heels of one of the worst economic crises since The Depression, artisan cocktails began maki...

drink

A Martini

Posted on Saturday, December 4th, 2010 by Will Cox

The Martini that most folks know, if they order a Martini in a bar, is between six and nine ounces of chilled vodka or gin, perhaps with the glass washed with v...

drink

Deadrise

Posted on Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 by Will Cox

Over the summer Legal Sea Foods offered a cocktail they call the Deadrise. Huh? What’s a deadrise? A fishy kind of zombie? Nope. The deadrise is the angle...

drink

The Cosmopolitan

Posted on Thursday, November 4th, 2010 by Will Cox

Girlfriend, I present for your classy enjoyment the Cosmopolitan. Or, rather, a variation thereof since I don’t stock citrus vodka. The Cosmopolitan 1 1/2...

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