I've come up with what may be an entirely new family of cocktails!So, you know that there are families of cocktails, like something/vermouth/bitters... like gin/vermouth/bitters, vodka/vermouth/bitters, whiskey/vermouth/bitters. And then there's... well anyway that's one. I call it a family.
So, here we go:
2 oz Gin
.75 oz Brandy
.25 oz Falernum
.25 oz Liqueur that complements the brandy
It seems like a lot of booze, but this little formula will produce good drinks. The problem is that this is the right balance, imo, but a .25 oz component means that you can't downsize it w/out making it very difficult to measure with normal drink-making tools. Regardless, with some consideration you can come up with numerous combinations of spirits to produce something unique and wonderful. Here are three that I've come up with, in the order that I discovered them:
2 oz Small's Gin (this is an Oregonian gin with strong cardamom notes)
.75 Clear Creek douglas fir eau-de-vie (Clear Creek is from Portland, OR)
.25 Velvet Falernum
.25 Cointreau
Mmmm... The douglas fir e.d.v. is actually treated fairly, I think.
2 oz Small's Gin
.75 Framboise (the brandy, not the beer)
.25 Velvet Falernum
.25 Cherry Heering
Completely different from the first one, but nonetheless fantastic cocktail, if I do say myself, and then finally...
2 oz Martin Miller's Gin
.75 Clear Creek Eau-de-Vie de Pomme
.25 Velvet Falernum
.25 Benedictine
Oh. This one is just gorgeous. Everything is balanced, and that peppery gin just shines like a new hinge.
Notice that every recipe here has at least one thing from Portland, and one thing from France. Huh.
Speaking of hinge... Have you ever noticed that at the beginning of Radiolab, at the end of their introductory sound collage, a woman's voice says "enge N P R." That's right, she doesn't say "and N P R," like you think she should be saying. The sound she makes sounds like - I can only describe it as "enge", because I don't know IPA, or any phonetic alphabets. "enge N P R." God it would be annoying, but it's not... yet. What makes it even more interesting is that an older (?), different version of that sonic mashup also features a female saying it, I think in a different setting, the same way! You can hear it on the "Voices in Your Head" podcast, and others. Maybe she just has a weird way of saying "and".
Speaking of hinge... Have you ever noticed that at the beginning of Radiolab, at the end of their introductory sound collage, a woman's voice says "enge N P R." That's right, she doesn't say "and N P R," like you think she should be saying. The sound she makes sounds like - I can only describe it as "enge", because I don't know IPA, or any phonetic alphabets. "enge N P R." God it would be annoying, but it's not... yet. What makes it even more interesting is that an older (?), different version of that sonic mashup also features a female saying it, I think in a different setting, the same way! You can hear it on the "Voices in Your Head" podcast, and others. Maybe she just has a weird way of saying "and".
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Will you please come down here and make us these drinks? CAN I PLEASE HAVE ONE RIGHT NOW????!!!
I'll even forgive the gin, since that just looks delicious.
Have you ever made your own bitters?
About the Radiolab intro--I think they're messing with the frequencies, a-la some linguistics experiments with perceived ethnicity and age I've been reading, lately. I think it's "and," but they twisted it.
I know you're ancestrally opposed to gin, but you know, gin is actually a Dutch invention. It's just that the Brits ran w/it. Gin -> gen -> genever, which is the Dutch word for juniper. Enge you know it's really just flavored vodka at heart. Herbal/botanical-infused vodka.
In fact I have made my own bitters, Kate! My friend Adam enge I have made a few different types. I even have pictures. They're very unique. I'll make a full post about it.
Welp, Bourbon enge bitters is my standby drink (though a Bourbon enge Blenheim's can serve in a pinch). So BRING SOME BITTERS (preferably ginger-y) when you bring me that drink. Which should be RIGHT NOW.
Mmm! Blenheim's? I've never heard of it, but I'm a big ginger ale fan! My favorite is Vernors, or as I like to call it, Vuuhnuhs. Oh man, that is some good ginger ale.
We don't have a ginger bitter yet, but we can work on it.
Also - linguistics experiments with perceived ethnicity and age... sounds interesting!
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