Tagged: simplesyrup

Daily Mix / Seasonal Sunday / Whiskey (blended)

Jameson Whiskey Sour (“Irish Sour”)

A JAMESON WHISKEY SOUR will taste lighter than, say, a bourbon Sour. It’s still the great sweet/lemon-tart balance of a Sour. But Jameson is triple distilled, leaving out some of the impurities that help define certain bourbons, and is aged...

Bitters / Curacao / Daily Mix / Maraschino / Rum

Discovery Bay

The DISCOVERY BAY is a gold rum, lime & curacao cocktail that produces a citrusy embellishment of your favorite gold rum. Despite the pastoral green color — which is the result of mixing blue curacao with gold rum — the...

Daily Mix / Rum

Mai Tai (War Time Cocktails, 1935-45)

Smith’s Union Bar, Honolulu Strolling into Honolulu’s Smith’s Union Bar, just a few miles away from the military docks and ports of 1941 Pearl Harbor, one is greeted by a calmer, more open-area bar than the other dark seedy places...

Daily Mix / Rum / World Wednesday

Mojito

The MOJITO is an iconic Cuban cocktail that emerged from a Havana bar around 1910. It’s a bartender’s least favorite concoction to make in a bar, not because it requires many types of liquor, but because it’s time-consuming to prepare...

Daily Mix / Gin / Orange Juice / Pernod / Rum / Throwback Thursday / Vermouth (sweet & dry)

Quarantine

Given the name of this cocktail and our current condition, I had to pass this recipe from Manila, Philippines along.  It is a great expansion of the dry gin martini, transforming it into a complex white rum & citrus drink,...