Hard Drinkers, Lets Drink Hard (Spirits, Liquors and Cocktails)

[sabergirl]

Aha!! Great info. Thanks. I worked as a bartender for five years in SF, but it was a shot and beer type place, so the cocktails in my arsenal are really limited to the simple and classic. I always love learning more about booze!

[mclaincausey]

Me too, I have a bunch of bartender buddies and I'll "shoot" the shit with them and learn as I hang out.

I also have a few great books:

Stan Clisby's New Orleans Cocktails and How to Mix Em (pretty old book, a classic)
The PDT Cocktail Book
Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails

The last two are new additions, but the third one may be my favorite now. And it's spiral-bound, as all such books should be. (hard cover though)

[sabergirl]

I'd love to see photos and/or publishing info about those.  Maybe you posted in the books thread and I'm too lazy to find 'em…

[mclaincausey]

[sabergirl]

Sweet!  Thanks.

[mclaincausey]

My pleasure. If I had to pick one it would be the one on the bottom right, though the New Orleans one is a sentimental favorite. PDT is pretty but no drink pictures. It does have a lot of knowledge beyond drinks though, etiquette and how to run a home or commercial bar.

[FOXY]

Funny that you mention Jim Meehan's PDT book - I work with with the German version a little bit - even got a drink from my favourite bar at home (Victoria Bar, Berlin).

Certainly not a beginners book with easy cocktails. Leans heavily towards the bourbon side of whisk(e)y, but that comes with the terrain.
Interesting cocktails with a lot of attention to very good ingredients!

Here in Moscow I like to experiment with the bar woman at my local bar: I bring a bottle of whatever appears to be interesting or new (gin, whisky, absinthe, amaro, vermouth, bitter) and we work out new versions and combinations - not everything works…
(She won last year's Bacardi Legacy Award - I think the first woman to do so.)

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[tigerpac]

^Sounds like a good woman to experiment with…. 

[mclaincausey]

Uhhhhhhhh…..

North Shore Distillery is in the house.

[seawolf]

Mclain - I thought of you the other day when I tried this. http://greenhatgin.com Best gin I've EVER had.

[mclaincausey]

Last night I had one of the finest gin cocktails I've ever had: North Shore #6 gin, Lemon, Earl Grey infused simple Syrup, Egg White, Orange Bitters, shaken and strained into a coupe glass with a garnish of a lemon rind. I had wanted to get this drink called the Juliet & Romeo (Plymouth gin, Lime, Mint, Cucumber, Rose Water, shaken, strained into coupe) which is also a work of genius but I'm glad I experimented with this one.

I also tried a dessert-like potation called Booth in the Back:  Brugal Anjeo, Rhum Barbancourt 4yr, Brown Sugar Syrup, Whole Egg, Coffee Pecan Bitters, shaken, strained into highball over ice. Very good.

[Peter]

i love gin and drink it almost every day.

gin, ice and a slice of grapefruit. simple and delicious!

[mclaincausey]

Peter, I hated gin after a bad Sapphire and Tropicana experience in college (fine, judge away). I have recently turned into an absolute gin drunkie.

[Mild7]

I recently converted from Bombay to Hendricks.  Lovely stuff.

[tigerpac]

Haven't been able to get into gin, but if I had to drink it, Hendricks for me too

[FOXY]

As for gin, some of my favorites:

• Gin Mare
• Monkey 47
• Berlin Adler Dry Gin
• Brockman's Gin

On a different note, just scored the 2nd release from Absolute Craft by Nick Strangeway: Smokey Tea

Need to try soon…

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[derivative666]

Love that Wes Anderson

[FOXY]

Was a present for the wife - lovely book!

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[trail and arrow]

i'm a knob:

[mclaincausey]

Would that make you a Knob gobbler?