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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Spiced Bourbon

Posted on Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by Will Cox

Using the spiced syrup from the Honeycrisp Apple cocktail, make a variation of the Old Fashioned. I’ve drunk the following with both Evan Williams and Tut...

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Honeycrisp Apple

Posted on Sunday, October 17th, 2010 by Will Cox

The recipe below is from Gotham Bar & Grill, by way of Tuthilltown Spirits. I substituted Harvest Spirits’s Core Vodka and Cornelius Applejack instead...

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The Wise Sage

Posted on Thursday, October 14th, 2010 by Will Cox

James Frederic Rose, of the Temple Bar, New York, has come up with a tasty way to drain one’s bottle of Harvest Spirits‘s Core Vodka. I have misplac...

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Old Fashioned Variation

Posted on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 by Will Cox

Substitute applejack for the bourbon. Old Fashioned Variation In an old fashioned, or rocks, glass place a half cube of sugar. Soak the sugar with two to three ...

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Johnny Chapman

Posted on Saturday, October 9th, 2010 by Will Cox

It’s a real pleasure to have friends over for dinner and cocktails. Last night was just such an occasion. I prepared a short cocktail menu of seasonal dri...

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A Spirit, Sugar, Water, and Bitters

Posted on Thursday, October 7th, 2010 by Will Cox

This week I have been concentrating on the Old Fashioned, varying which bourbon I use, which bitters, which garnish, and the balance of sugar and water. I shoul...

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The Gimlet

Posted on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010 by Will Cox

The Gimlet is one of those drinks, like the martini, where there’s a question of what the correct proportions are. CocktailDB uses a 2:1 ratio of gin to R...

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Pink Gin

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

Browsing through videos from Robert Hess‘s show The Cocktail Spirit (on the Small Screen Network), I was reminded of the Pink Gin, a cocktail I made back ...

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A Highland Fling

Posted on Monday, September 13th, 2010 by Will Cox

Suppose you’ve become infatuated with Rob Roy Rob Roy Stir in mixing glass with ice & strain 1 3/4 oz Scotch (5 cl, 7/16 gills) 3/4 oz sweet vermouth...

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Not a MalibuĀ® St. Lawrence Lemonade

Posted on Thursday, September 9th, 2010 by Will Cox

Some friends of ours had us over for dinner last night, and, having heard of my hobby, asked me to come up with something to drink. The guideline was simple &md...

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