August 26, 2009
I was paging through Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails when I hit The Communist. The Communist 1 ounce London dry gin 1 ounce orange juice 0.75 ounce lemon juice 0.5 ounce cherry brandy (Cherry Heering) Shake until as sold as Mother Russia, double strain into a very proletarian cocktail glass. With fresh fruit juices and […]
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August 25, 2009
It took a long time for me to warm up to grenadine as a cocktail ingredient, after a childhood chock full of bright red Rose’s Grenadine Shirley Temples. But now I know how many great cocktails include grenadine. A couple of personal favorites are the El Presidente and the Blinker. And now that I know […]
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