Random notes on alcoholic experiments

Gordon's Gin Rebate

I suppose I shouldn't feel too upset over Diageo butchering my last name. I also shouldn't take so much pride in taking so little of their money. Could one be contributing to the other?

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I currently have five tinctures in my cabinet that do a lot of the heavy lifting in nearly everything that I make. I have three bitter herbs: wormwood, cinchona, and gentian, as well as bitter and sweet orange peel extracts.

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My second post, and I'm already off topic

Well, not really off topic, it's still cocktail related. But it's only related to home made ingredients in that a few of them were used in the cocktails not shown here.

Anyway, I felt like posting a photo example of what happens when you have too much f...

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Hello World

So, apparently I have decided to start a blog.

It's been about a year since my first attempt at making vermouth. 18 attempts in, my recipe is pretty stable, but still evolving. I guess I will have to dedicate a future post to a summary of what I've done so far. Of course, once I started making one alcoholic concoction of my own, I couldn't stop there. Now I have a bunch of ongoing experiments, each of which I will introduce as I work on them next.

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