Molecular Drinking

Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails

  • The Blackthorn Cocktail

    I was in the mood for something I hadn’t heard of before.  Not new, just new to me.  B was also thinking some thing with Dubonnet Rouge.  According to the good Doctor’s Vintage Cocktails and Forgotten Spirits (now in a…

  • The Stinger

    If last week’s post was an afternoon’s light hearted frivolity, then this would be pretty much be the opposite. The is one of B’s standards for polishing off an evening or the otherwise somnolent task of digesting a heavy meal.…

  • Beachcomber Cocktail

    I was in the mood for something new and frivolous.  Plan 1)  that new Porsche Boxter S.  B did point out, however, that it was $56K, would screw up our carpool parking and I would still need to find something…

  • The Emerson

    I was looking back through the cocktails that I wanted to write about and found this one from back in May, 2007.  Okay, curious. Why hadn’t I written about this one yet?  I looked back at the cocktail hazed notes…

  • Delmonico’s No. 1

    Well, this is just quick one. First the recipe from David Wondrich’s Esquire Drinks: 3/4 oz. gin 1/2 oz. brandy 1/2 oz. Sweet Vermouth 1/2 oz. Dry Vermouth 2 dashes Angostura Bitters Stir with ice and strain into a cocktail…

  • The Last Word…

    Apparently this is going to be another blog post with a rambling backstory before I get to the drinking…. This story begins back in February.  My delightful wife, B-, having given me a bottle of Green Chartreuse for Valentine’s day,…

  • The Essence of Simplicity

    To quote a recent New York Times article by Pete Wells,  “If it’s purple and looks like it came from Mr. Softee, it’s not a daiquiri, no matter what the bartender says.” David  Wondrich, in his regrettably out-of-print book Esquire…

  • The Pisco Sour

    This all starts with a stocking stuffer my father-in-law gave me for Christmas a couple of years ago, the July/August 2007 issue of Imbibe Magazine.  They had an article pisco, on the brandy of Peru and (though highly disputed by…

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Hi there! We are Brenda and M, scientists by day and a knitter/piano player/gardener and a tinker/putterer/cook and bartender in a parallel universe. This blog was born out of Brenda’s earlier blog MolecularKnitting and in interest in really cool vintage cocktails.

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