Cocktails: The Bitter Truth
By Tea Berry-Blue on February 8th, 2010Posted In: Blog Posts
This week, I experimented with two flavors of bitters from Bittermens and The Bitter Truth, which my mother bought me as a Valentine’s gift! Here are the results:
1) Rabbitini
Ingredients:
3 oz Hendrick’s Gin (this recipe is intended for Hendrick’s and not another brand of gin)
1 Kirby (small) cucumber, or 1/2 large cucumber
2 tsps white [...]
On any weekday night, in any city in America, you can find a happy hour menu that includes a selection of “Martinis.” Chocolate martinis, sour apple martinis, blueberry martinis, lemon martinis, baby penguin martinis, and on and on. Perhaps the height of this martini craze coincided with the height of “Sex and the [...]
Ingredients for 2 drinks
6 oz gin (I use Right)
18 ripe gooseberries, washed
1 tb white sugar
1/3 cup chopped basil plus 2 whole sprigs basil
Club Soda
Ice
Instructions
Put ice in two rocks glasses to chill
Put 12 gooseberries in shaker with sugar and chopped basil, muddle with wooden spoon
Add gin & shake
Strain into glasses.
“Pop” one gooseberry into each glass, [...]
Two drinks for the price of one!
1) As American
This is the drink I designed for the 4th of July. It is a little bit of a take off of a classic Mint Julep recipe and a cherry pie recipe and made with all American-made ingredients. It is sweet and tastes like a bourbon-cherry pie!
Ingredients [...]
I know this should have Wasabi in it, but…
Ingredients for Two Cocktails
Juice from 1 lemon.
6 ounces Broker’s or other English Dry gin
1/2 oz Rose’s Lime Juice
1 Tb evaporated cane juice (you can use plain sugar or Sugar in the Raw)
About 15-20 leaves of Cinnamon Basil**
Fill 2 martini glasses with ice & set aside.
Reserve 4 basil [...]
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