Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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The Graduate
A bit of a short post in the continuing tribute to Imbibe Magazine’s quartet of “Simple Cocktails”. Unlike the High Noon that cleverly paired several ingrediets that go very well together (tequila and triple sec, tequila and grapfruit juice, grapfruit…
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High Noon
My father-in-law, one of the pioneers out Riding the Beer Trail in Oskosh, has a pretty hard and fast rule that a cocktail can’t have more than three ingredients. A bit Spartan, but I catch his point. Part of the…
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Mai Tai Madness
Well July has been a rather busy one at work. I know, loyal reader (yah, there probably is only one of you) is shocked to find that M is actually feigning employment. The downside of this preoccupation with food and…
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The Blue Moon Cocktail
I ran across this cocktail back in the September, 2009 issue of Imbibe and decided I really should give it a try. When you have a bottle of crème yvette or a bottle of crème de violette, you don’t pass…
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A margarita by any other name
As anyone who’s made my acquaintance will know, I love tequila. Not that mixto crap that frat boys pour down coeds throats, but the good stuff. The 100% agave azul stuff. Sipped neat, without the lime, without salt. I love…
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Derby Day
As yesterday was the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby, it seemed an auspicious time to revive the blog after an eleven moth hiatus, and what else could one comment on that the venerable Mint Julep. Doubtless you are thinking…
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The Manhattan–Grandaddy of them all…
I now realize that it’s been almost four months since I last posted. Apparently I have been doing more drinking that writing. Well, since I’d rather avoid doing less drinking, I better do more writing. There’s been one cocktail that…
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El Presidente
B & I decided to give this cocktail a second look. We had originally tried the El Presidente a number of years ago based on David Wondrich’s recipe in his book Esquire Drinks. It was decidedly awful–seriously discordant flavors. We…
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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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