My Shopping Haul

Marshall | December 29, 2007

Damn Sean, what do you do, take pictures as soon as you walk through the door???
I actually already put my stuff away, so no pictures from my haul, which included:
Noilly Pratt Sweet Vermouth
Liter of Maker’s Mark
Rittenhouse Rye (80 proof)
Rittenhouse Rye Bottled in Bond (100 proof)
Massenez Creme de Cassis
Junipero Gin
Castarede XO Armagnac
I also picked up some [...]

new stuff

SeanMike | December 29, 2007

So after a trip to Schneider’s and World Market…

That’s a bottle of Punt e Mes, partly thanks to a WaPo article the other day, Schonauer apple schnapps, which is supposedly better than the other kind I usually get, some Heering cherry liqueur, and a bottle of Castarede XO armagnac that was on sale.  I also [...]

I’m lucky

SeanMike | December 29, 2007

I have, what I call, a resilient tongue.  I can drink a lot, I admit, and by the end, I don’t taste a lot of what I’m drinking, but I still do taste it.  Conversely, when drinking a lot of stuff, I can still analyze what I’m drinking fairly accurately – for me.
The other problem [...]

So to explain

SeanMike | December 29, 2007

The best Cocktail a la Louisiane ever.
Recipe from Cocktail Chronicles:3/4 oz. rye3/4 oz. sweet vermouth3/4 oz. Benedictine3 dashes Pernod (all I have; he suggests Herbsaint)3 dashes Peychaud’s bitters
Given that I’m making a double, I use 1 1/2 ounce of the first three; given my previous experience, I use 3/4 of a teaspoon of the Pernod, [...]

What I drank and made over Christmas

SeanMike | December 27, 2007

It’s been a long Christmas time but let me see if I can get them down…I didn’t drink ALL of each of these cocktails, but made more than a few of them for other people.
Beer:
I have no idea what kind of beer that is.  It came in a 1.5 liter bottle, all in Cyrllic though [...]