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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Rye Old-Fashioned

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: March 1, 2013

The Old Fashioned Manhattan. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

The Rye Old-Fashioned. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

My inclination is to simplify. And with this, one of the oldest and sturdiest of cocktails, the old fashioned, should be just that, as Brad Parsons notes in his excellent book Bitters, and in my original post on it. Sugar muddled with bitters, ice, American whiskey, and a twist. Brad laments that it's too often gussied up and over-muddled with orange and overly adorned. Brad also notes a nostalgia for the gritty undissolved sugar, but nevertheless recommends simple syrup in his. I am like-minded on all counts. Except. I splurged on these awesome cherries, "original" maraschinos. Also I really wanted to feature rye whiskey, here Bulleit rye, a whiskey on the upswing in America. And this great, great cocktail, the ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: The Boulevardier

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 22, 2013

 

The Boulevardier with the twist

The Boulevardier. Photos by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

Were it not for the Internet, my guess is that only the most devoted barfly would know about the Boulevardier. It's not in any of my cocktail books, not the standard-bearing The Standard Bartender's Guide, my Madmen-era dad's paperback. I only heard about it from a reader of this blog (with links below). And an email this week pushed me into a tasting, happily! I love how various flavoring components (bitters, vermouths) become different cocktails when you change the spirit. How the Manhattan becomes a Rob Roy when you change the bourbon to scotch (as opposed to a lame-sounding "Scotch Manhattan"), or how a Martini becomes a ... um, never mind about that #lostcause (Paulius, can we hope for Darwinian selection here?). I love the elasticity of a ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Clover Club

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 15, 2013

The classic cocktail: the Clover Club. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

A classic cocktail: the Clover Club. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

This Friday cocktail recipe is posted with heavy shame. I'm sorry, but it's the way it sometimes goes with blog posts. I'll always be honest with you. Regrettably, there are multiple levels of shame here. Ignorance, laziness, bad planning, haste, forced collusion. It all started when Jeff Houck, the Tampa journalist (the sounds so much more formidable than a, doesn't it? and since I like the guy's work, he's definitely a the), wrote an article about digital food books, which noted this excellent iBook called 25 Classic Cocktails. I asked the guys who made it to do a guest post and offer some cocktails. They chose a Pink Lady and also gave the recipe for ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour Revisited: The Dark & Stormy

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 8, 2013

Another classic, the Dark & Stormy. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman

I've been traveling and hobnobbing with entertainment industry folks this week, so work and body clock are all off. Now I'm back in the deep Cleveland gray and longing for the fine days of cooking in Key West, so I'm reposting this most excellent cocktail that started off all those long lovely boozy nights in the southernmost with my sailing family, the Dark & Stormy: Gosling's rum, ginger beer, and lime. I like equal parts rum and ginger beer, because that's me; the traditional ratio is 2:1 beer to rum. This time I'd like to stress the use of lime. There should be plenty in the perfect Dark & Stormy or the drink is cloying after the first sip or two. Don't give a desultory ...

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Friday Cocktail Hour: Key Lime Daiquiri

By Michael Ruhlman | Published: February 1, 2013

Key Lime Daiquiri. Photo by Donna Turner Ruhlman.

This blast of arctic air and wind and snow and gray has me longing for the lovely afternoons and evenings of the Key West I left a week ago. Nine full days there, writing, cooking, carousing with the sailing droogs. Sigh. So, to cheer myself, I made some Key Lime Daiquiris—proper daiquiris, with nothing but rum, citrus, and simple syrup. The frozen daiquiri and the frozen margarita are yet more travesties America has made of previously fine libations. I think I was in my thirties when I learned that a daiquiri wasn't a slushie with alcohol. So I fight off these, the worst weeks of the year, with memories of Key West, rum, and Key limes (and thanks to you, Rob and Ab!). Yes, that's blue Ohio winter in ...

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