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My Journey with the Pisco Sour

Stevi February 06, 2009 Cocktails, Events, Pisco 15 Comments

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I can trace my love of mixology through the evolution of my standards for homemade pisco sours.

Like many Americans, I first discovered this delicious quaff on a trip to Peru. I had one every chance I could get, and picked up a bottle of acholado pisco at the duty free, along with some packets of pisco sour mix. I was told this was a way to make a decent pisco sour, especially since we can’t get the right citrus here in the US, and for a while, I believed that.

Then I decided to try to … Continue Reading

Damn Good Pisco Sour

Stevi January 29, 2008 Pisco 1 Comment

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In celebration of find a proper bottle of Peruvian pisco for sale in a Bellevue, Washington state liquor shop, I made Pisco Sours last night. Those made en el Norte can’t ever be right because we don’t have the right limes here, but I found the store-bought limes to work fine.

You can’t get the right foamy goodness on top without using a blender, and i think the ice adds the right amount of dilution, anyway, so go with it:

recipe for four:
1 cup Peruvian pisco (i used Guacamayo, which is a pisco puro)
2 oz simple syrup
2 oz fresh squeezed lime … Continue Reading