Since my "other unpaid second job" is a video game reviewer for GamersInfo.net, I spend at least a bit of time each day perusing sites such as Kotaku. Today on there I saw this post listing out the drinks EA came out for the EA Games Spring Break 08.

I was even more amused to see this after instantly recognizing the reference to a video game in the ( Read more... )

A while ago - and I'm not going to dignify by saying how long ago, as it makes me look more like a slacker the more I think about it - my compatriot
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As my esteemed co-poster
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My neighbor and his brother came over tonight.  My neighbor was sick.  I'd been reading Imbibe! the other day, so I made him a cherry smash:

Cherry Smash
by Julie Reiner via Imbibe! by David Wondrich

1 1/2 ounces Courvosier VS cognac (I used the Castarede XO armagnac)
3/4 ounce orange curacao (Cointreau)
3/4 ounce lemon juice
1/2 ounce cherry heering
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While cleaning up on New Year's Eve, having made a number of cocktails (and did vodka shots, which I think helped erase most of the end of the night), I managed to drop my bottle of Fee's West Indian Orange bitters.

CRAP!

So I call Scheider's and they do have it in stock.  That's good, if only that it's still a haul to get down there and back, and ( Read more... )

I have, what I call, a resilient tongue.  I can drink a lot, I admit, and by the end, I don't taste a lot of what I'm drinking, but I still do taste it.  Conversely, when drinking a lot of stuff, I can still analyze what I'm drinking fairly accurately - for me.

The other problem is that I'm not that accurate of a taste tester.  I can taste, well, ( Read more... )

So, PX last night kicked mucho ass.  We spent 5 hours there, getting there at 9 PM (despite our 9:45 reservation) and closing it out.  I can't get over how great it was, and how much fun we had.  I believe
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And you're on a cleaning rampage like I was, you think, hey, let's catalogue ye olde bar.


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So I'm starting the experimentation.

1 1/2 ounces bourbon (Maker's Mark)
1/2 ounce Cointreau
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/4 ounce double strength vanilla extract (Penzey's)
1/4 ounce rich simple syrup
2 drops orange flower water (Fee's)
two dashes whiskey barrel aged bitters (Fee's)
dash orange bitters (Regan's)

stirred (since I sprained my wrist and can't ( Read more... )

Hmmm, since
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