This Week’s Drink – Red Cicada
This week’s drink is an fun combo of vodka, champagne and everyone’s new friend, pomegranate juice. Thanks, Kris!
This week’s drink is an fun combo of vodka, champagne and everyone’s new friend, pomegranate juice. Thanks, Kris!
Old Potrero is a recreation of an 18th century American whiskey. It’s made with 100% rye mash. Most rye makers mix corn and/or barley in the mash, which would make the spirit sweeter. It’s copper-pot distilled and aged for two years plus in toasted oak barrels. The reason they don’t call it a “rye whiskey”…
This week’s boozy links: This Seattle Starbucks turns into Barbucks after 4 pm. 25 Geeky Drinking games. Men’s Health shows us 31 things you can do with beer besides drinking it. Revolutionary America was apparently quite randy. The Founding Fathers were not pleased. The couple at A Dangerous Business share over 200 photos of bottles taken…
Ingredients:1.5 oz Russian Standard Vodka2 oz lemongrass purée* Directions:Combine ingredients over ice and shake vigorously. Strain and garnish with a lemongrass stalk. *Lemongrass purée: Cut the bottoms off of 3 lemongrass stalks and put into a blender with 5 tsps of sugar and 1 liter of water. Blend until smooth. Courtesy of Russian Standard Vodka.
If you love Tiki Drinks like we do, this is one of the grandaddies of the genre. Created by Don the Beachcomer in 1934, the recipe was top secret. Don even instituted a two Zombie limit to keep the competition from figuring it out. Maybe it could have been that they were really strong as…
Taking it’s name for the African word “mojo” or “little spell,” the Mojito has its roots in from the time’s of Sir Francis Drake. One of his sailors invented a drink named the Draque, made with an early form of rum called Aquardiente, sugar, lime and mint. The drink was widely use for medical purposes in Havana….