Molecular Drinking
Adventures with (mostly) Vintage Cocktails
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Aperoni
B forwarded me a post from Michael Rhuhulman’s blog about a Berkshire Martinez from last April, which was his take on the classic Martinez cocktail. Apparently this post was inspired by a robust (such as 140 characters will allow) Twitter…
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Boulevardier
It’s yet again been a little while since the last blog post. In this case, there is a better reason than usual; B & I bought a house and moved. After a frenetic few weeks, we are again feeling settled…
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Sangria
Owing to a concatenation of circumstances, I now realize that I haven’t had a new post in far too long. Those same circumstances are now compelling me to make the first post ever without a post–ironic in light of the…
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Diabolo
B was looking through Robert Hess’s The Essential Bartender’s Guide the other night for something new when she ran across a rather oddly named cocktail, the Diabolo. No, not Diablo, Diabolo. Apparently it’s named after the Yo-yo shaped juggling device. …
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The Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail
Our hiatus into frivolous drinking over, it’s now time to turn our attention to some more serious entrez in to the world of cocktails. With this post, we take on what David Wondrich describes as on of “the four pillars…
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You’ll shoot your eye out, kid
As promised, this is going to be my second (and final for a while) post of festive, holiday cocktails. Last time we did Dale Degroff’s Royal Gingersnap. This time we are going to do one from the December, 2011 issue…
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Famous Riffs
I think for the next couple of weeks, we’ll take a bit of a departure from our usual aesthetic and relive a couple our more whimsical holiday jocularities. After that, I promise, we’ll get serious-for at least a while. So…
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Negroni
Last Friday, the lab decided it needed a “spontaneous act of happy hour” at Briana’s house. She had the comestible well in hand, which left the libation in our hands. Knowing gin was a popular favorite with all of the…
Brenda & M
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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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