Don't Ask, Don't Tell

Another invention from impromptu cocktail night. I remember it being really delicious, but it might have just been the 6 cocktails already residing in my system doing the talking.

• 0.75 oz St. Germain
• 1.5 oz Calvados
• 1 dash Absinthe
• 1 dash Angostura Bitters

Shake and strain, add a lemon twist.

Mumford seemed to like this one.

2 New Old Fashioned Variations

1. Impromptu Cocktail Night Variation

• 2 oz Bulleit Bourbon
• 1 tsp cane sugar
• 2 dashes Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Bitters
• Lemon twist
• Orange twist
• Maraschino cherry

We made this one at Loren's request - he wanted to test out the Fee Brother's Old Fashioned Bitters in a drink that "tastes like Christmas"


2. Clyde Common Variation

• 2 oz Michter's Rye
• Lemon twist
• 1 teaspoon 2-to-1 syrup
• 1 dash angostura bitters

Michter's Rye was awesome as an old fashioned.

Dragon's Blood

Benjamin loved this one. It's totally delicious, but we didn't get the recipe, so we'll have to reverse engineer it.

• Plymouth gin
• Green Chartreuse
• Pedro Ximenez Sherry
• Angostura Bitters
• Absinthe
• Ardbed 10 year scotch float

Apple of Discord

A new favorite, it tastes like a smokey apple.

• 2 oz calvados pays d'auge
• 0.5 teaspoon agave nectar
• 5 dashes Bourdreau's cherry bitters

Shake and strain, mist top of cocktail using a diffuser with del Maguey Santo Domingo mezcal

Angostura "Float"

Golden Ticket

Ah lurves this. A scotch cocktail! A beautiful handcut icecube!

• 0.75 oz Bowmore 12 year scotch
• 0.75 oz Yamazaki 12 year whiskey
• 0.25 oz Ramazotti Amaro
• 0.75 oz Grand Marnier
• 3 dashes Grapefruit bitters
• 1 dash Angostura bitters

Our Favorite Place EVER

Teardrop
1015 NW Everett St
Portland, OR 97209
(503) 445-8109

Teardrop has a drink with elixir vegetal on the menu... and a huge line of special little eyedropper bottles of tinctures and bitters, and even atomizers to spray angostura bitters on the top of an egg-white drink instead of floating it in drops.

We didn't make it to Beaker and Flask, but we will have to go next year.

Beaker & Flask
720 SE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 235-8180

Sipping Gin! Ransom Old Tom Gin

The most exciting gin we've had in a long long time :)
It's great straight (1/2 tumbler full at 2 in the morning, before a maple bacon donut) and in a Martinez with Bitter Truth Repeal Bitters!

Bourbon Renewal

A tasty cocktail we had in portland... The Bourbon Renewal

• 2 oz. maker's mark
• 1 oz. lemon juice
• 0.5 oz. cassis
• 0.5 oz. 1-to-2 simple syrup
• 2 dashes angostura bitters

served over ice, but it's just as good strained. Benjamin's super special variation on this drink makes Loren smile even more:

The Italian Laundromat

• 2 oz. bourbon (we used bulleit)
  
• 1 oz. lemon juice
• 0.75 oz. blueberry liquor
  
• 0.5 oz. small hand foods grenadine
  
• 2 dashes angostura bitters

This variation was made with Benjamin's blueberry liquor lugged back from Italy's pasta capital. The blueberry was less sweet than cassis, so we added an extra 0.25 oz, and mixed it with the delicious grenadine from small hand foods.