- 60mL rye
- 30mL sweet red vermouth
- 2-3 dashes bitters
Stir that in a mixing glass with ice until very cold. Serve in coupe or other glassware of choice. Garnish with a Luxardo cherry.
Month: May 2020
Rebuilding a Home Bar: Starting from Scratch
A good bar is one that collects not bottles as much as stories. This is doubly true for a home bar. If you’re like me, your home bar has many staples that you go through on the regular, but you also have a collection of odds and ends. You may have an ancient bottle of…
Spirit, Sugar, Water, Bitters
No, no. It’s not the sequel to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat. Though, I suppose it could be. What is a cocktail? It could be many things. But one of the older definitions is a drink containing spirit, sugar, water, and bitters. Something we now generally refer to as an Old Fashioned (digression on this point…
Welcome to The Cocktail Dork
So, I’m trying to do this thing. Who knows what it will become. My intentions are pretty minimal and my expectations even less. It involves cocktails, though. So, I think it will be fun. But I’m trying to establish a new online persona of sorts. Take this part of me that loves cocktails, and loves…