Random notes on alcoholic experiments

Blood and Sandish

  • 1 oz Scotch
  • 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
  • 3/4 oz Liqueur de Pamplemousse Rose
  • 1 oz Orange Juice
  • 1 ds Orange Bitters

Homemade ingredients: sweet vermouth, does orange juice count? (No, it doesn't.)

Basically, I replaced the cherry liqueur with grapefruit liqueur. The result is quite nice. Now...

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Recipe

Cooked Ingredients

Cooked Ingredients

  • 750 ml white wine
  • 20 cardamom pods
  • 20 juniper berries
  • 5 cloves
  • 1 star anise
  • 1 tsp rooibos

Cardamom

Crush the cardamom pods and juniper berries and break up the star anise by hand. Add the dry ingredients and the wine in a lidded pot and bring to a boil....

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Little Italy

  • 2 oz Rye
  • 3/4 oz Sweet Vermouth
  • 1/2 oz Cynar
  • 1/4 oz Maraschino Liqueur
  • Garnish: Cherry

Homemade ingredients: sweet vermouth, brandied cherry.

This Manhattan variation is one of my favorite cocktails. The recipe calls for Maraschino cherry syrup, but I like to skip the middle man and us...

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