Tag: cocktails
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The Colonel
The Colonel is a craft take on the dirty old-fashioned. It’s common to see the old-fashioned garnished with a cherry and orange wedge but fine restaurants and craft bars generally stick to the classic form, which is garnished with only a lemon peel. Any fruit in the drink makes an old-fashioned “dirty,” which is an… Read more
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Sweet Mash Rye Old-Fashioned
This old-fashioned follows the late nineteenth century rubric for the cocktail. It’s got only a bar-spoon of sugar, two dashes of Peychaud’s Bitters and one bar spoon of Grand Marnier (about 1.5 dashes). Believe it or not, it was once common to use a dash or two of orange curaçao in an old-fashioned. Nowadays, orange bitters… Read more
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Cherried, Not Cherried: An Old-Fashioned Controversy
A dirty martini might not be a classic martini but it is still a species of martini…so the time has come that we recognize the dirty old-fashioned (one with cherry and maybe an orange slice, muddled or not). But let’s be clear, such is a dirty old-fashioned and not a classic old-fashioned. I used to work with… Read more
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What is the Craft in Bartending?
What are craft cocktails? Cocktail writers by large recognize that the cocktail world underwent a renaissance at the start of the twenty-first century. In a TED Talk, beverage writer Wayne Curtis discussed the recent evolution of the craft cocktail. He stated that in the early part of the twenty-first century, there were only a handful… Read more