Cocktail Studies 2018.

photo by Kara Hayes Smith

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Finally Summer arrived in British Columbia. This week with fresh cherries and apricots from Granville Island Public Market.

Here's the recipe for the cocktail that will go inside these mugs.

2 1/2 ounces (5 tablespoons) aged white Martinique rum

1/2 ounce (1 tablespoon) Lemon Hart 151-proof Demerara rum

1/2 ounce green Chartreuse

3/4 ounce (1 1/2 tablespoons) lime juice

3/4 ounce Demerara simple syrup (see note)

2 dashes Angostura bitters

1/8 teaspoon Mexican hot sauce

1 1/2 ounces (3 tablespoons) ginger beer

1 slice fresh ginger (for garnish)

Lime wedge (for garnish).

1. Measure all ingredients except garnishes into a 12-ounce glass. Fill halfway with crushed ice. Insert a long spoon into the ice, hold the handle between your palms, and gently rub your palms together, back and forth, to swizzle the drink.

2. Top glass with more crushed ice and swizzle again. Garnish with the ginger slice and the lime wedge.

Yield: 1 drink.

Note: To make Demerara simple syrup, combine equal measures Demerara sugar and boiling water in a small jar. Seal the jar, wrap it in a towel and shake well until sugar dissolves. Syrup will keep, refrigerated, up to 2 weeks.

The following recipe is a synthesis of a few different sources. I used primarily the Beachbum Berry recipe, which claims to be Trader Vic's original, but I incorporated the dark rum float from Robert Hess and increased the amount of orgeat from one-quarter ounce to one-half ounce. I did not have the specific rums called for so I substituted the closest matches that I had in my bar at the time.

The pictured drink uses an ounce of Bacardi 8 Year aged rum and one half ounce of Gosling's as a float, but I found that reversing these makes for a better tasting drink. And last but not least, I used Cointreau, which is more of a triple sec than a curacao, but I doubt that this substitution alters the result by much at all. All in all, this is one delicious drink. I can see myself making a lot of these as the weather continues to warm.

1 oz fresh lime juice

1 oz Rhum Clément VSOP Martinique rum (Bacardi white rum)

1 oz Appleton Estate Extra dark Jamaican rum (Gosling's Black Seal)

1/2 ounce orange Curacao (Cointreau)

1/2 ounce orgeat syrup (Trader Tiki's brand)

1/4 oz rock candy syrup (simple syrup plus a few drops vanilla extract)

1/2 oz dark rum (Bacardi 8 Year Aged Rum)

Shake with crushed ice and pour unstrained into a double old-fashioned glass. Float half ounce of aged rum on top. Sink your spent lime shell in the drink, and garnish with a mint sprig.

Sources: Jeff "Beachbum" Berry. See also Robert Hess and this Wikibooks entry featuring Trader Vic's original recipe, as well as numerous variations.

Yummy fruit salad that I made for 4th of July. It's adapted from Giada's recipe on Food Network...watermelon, cantaloupe, blackberries, blueberries, mint, simple syrup, and amaretto. If you decide to make this, I recommend putting in more fruit than it says. I think it says two cups of each, but I put in about four or five cups of each (the watermelon and the cantaloupe) and it helped to dilute the simple syrup so it wasn't too sweet.

finally!

Delicious cocktail recipe obtained from the new bottle of Brooklyn Hemispherical Black Mission Fig bitters that I bought today at The Boston Shaker in Davis Square, Somerville, MA. This is a lovely cocktail; it calls for a full half ounce of the very potent allspice dram but it works beautifully. Highly recommended.

1 oz Rye

1 oz Applejack

1/2 oz Allspice dram

1/2 oz Simple syrup

1/2 oz Aperol

1/2 oz Lemon juice

Combine ingredients. Add ice. Shake well. Strain into a rocks glass. Add an orange twist as garnish. Top with 3 drops BHB Fig Bitters.

Source: Brooklyn Hemispherical Bitters Co.

Ricos los dos.

erincooks.com/2008/04/09/the-care-and-feeding-of-limoncello/

Homemade pomegranate-infused vodka // Homemade simple vanilla syrup // Grapefruit juice // Lime seltzer

Recipe for infused vodka, simple syrup and cocktail on blog.terintalarico.com

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Have leftover melon from a dinner party or brunch? This simple syrup is a fast and inexpensive way to keep the party going into the next event!

www.yummysmells.ca/2013/10/honeydew-ginger-simple-syrup.html

Basil Mint, Honey Syrup, SImple Syrup at David Burke Kitchen

23 Grand Street, SoHo, NYC

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A new cocktail created by my daughter.......Chambord, lemon juice and simple syrup is all it takes......delicious summer-time sip:)

Try it!

1 1/2 oz. Chambord

1 oz. simple syrup

3/4 oz. lemon juice

Shake in a cocktail shaker/strainer with ice. Serve over ice.

To make simple syrup, bring to a boil equal parts of sugar and water and boil til sugar melts. Cool. Refrigerate leftover syrup.

from Beachbum Berry's Remixed: A Gallery of Tiki Drinks

It's basically a really elaborate Hurricane.

Ingredients for a Simple Syrup…

"Ruby Slipper"

Aquavit New York, singed orange rind, lemon juice, and ruby port.

Notes: I brought back a bottle of Aquavit New York for my friend. She got this recipe ("Ruby Slipper") from their website and we decided to try it out while watching the reunion episode of Top Chef Season 4. It made the show a lot more funny for her, than it did for me; I could only take a sip. It was very good. It reminded my friend of sangria. I wouldn't disagree.

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From the 2012 Minimally Invasive Advent Calendar.

Read all about it here.

Oh god, more drinks!!!! Fonda makes a delicous mojito!!

Fonda Mojito: Myers's Platinum Rum, muddled mint, sparkling water, fresh lime and simple syrup on the rocks.

From the 2012 Minimally Invasive Advent Calendar.

Read all about it here.

Refer to blog post for recipe.

My second cocktail of the evening is (at last) the Toronto. Not typically a fan of Fernet but it works beautifully here:

2 oz Old Overholt rye whiskey

.25 oz Fernet Branca

.25 oz simple syrup

2 dashes Angostura bitters

flamed orange garnish

Stir well with ice and strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with flamed orange peel.

Source: Jamie Boudreau

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Yes, it really is a cocktail where the famous bitters are the principal ingredient. The menu says "schloads" of Angostura (which amounts to a full 1.5 oz. shot), but there's also lime, simple syrup, and an egg white, all shaken like crazy before being strained and topped with a few more drops of bitters.

It's incredible, and the lime juice particularly does something to highlight the spices in the Angostura. Highly recommended if you make it over to Heritage.

See how to make three different and equally yummy drink recipes: try Homemade Lemonade, Iced Tea, and a fruity Watermelon Cooler. Watch: www.watchmojo.com/index.php?id=7232

We share ideas for delectable drinks made from simple syrups on the Craftsy Blog. #beCraftsy

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5 kumquats

3 chunks of lime

1 oz. simple syrup

3/4 oz. Cointreau

1/2 sprig rosemary

2 oz. white rum*

Put the kumquats, lime, rosemary, and simple syrup in a shaker glass. Muddle.

Add cointreau, cachaca, and 5 or 6 ice cubes. Shake for 5 seconds. Dirty pour (pour without straining, ice and all) into a rocks glass.**

* The original recipe called for cachaca but I've chosen to substitute a basic white rum. So technically this is not a true caipirinha, but until I buy some cachaca this will do just fine.

**The "dirty pour" is the only part of this recipe that I question. Muddling kumquats results in lots of little kumquat seeds floating around freely in the drink, which is not the pleasant experience you might expect. I recommend cutting the kumquats in half and squeezing out the seeds before muddling (being careful not to squeeze out too much of the juice in the process). Otherwise this a lovely summery drink.

Source: Raphael Reyes (via Serious Eats)

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all this for a party of two.. haha..

mint and garlic roasted squash.. fresh bread.. grilled eggplant, tomato, and mozzarella salad with balsamic.. the drink is kevin's concoction of gin and fresh basil..

only the herbs are from my garden.. i have tons planted but nothing to harvest just yet.. my tomatoes (three kinds) and green squash have yet to come in.. i definitely started the growing season too late :(

Recipe here: www.cocktailians.com/2013/12/arctic-chill-stainless-steel...

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(rosemary simple syrup from the artisan soda workshop by andrea lynn)

Something appropriately refreshing for the first day of summer (95 degrees, naturally), the El Floridita Daiquiri: 2 oz white rum (Flor de Cana 4-year), .75 oz lime juice, 1 tsp maraschino liqueur (Luxardo), 1 tsp simple syrup, lime wheel garnish.

Source: Paul Clarke (via Serious Eats)

experimenting with outdoor light. gonna stick with zero elevation next time.

ofcourse it's not worth not seeing it large.

new "Collins" glass. $4.17 after tax from Tap Phong (next to my old "old fashioned" glass).

Sooooo delicious! You can find the recipe here.

by Beachbum Berry

from Beachbum Berry's Remixed: A Gallery of Tiki Drinks

This is going into the frequently mixed repertoire along with the Mai Tai and Western Sour. It just works a lot better than the similar Montego Bay (also with Pimento or Allspice liqueur).

I used Coruba and El Dorado 5.