So Helen, this is the drink I didn’t make for your birthday.
A recipe first published in Imbibe magazine puts Humboldt’s hoppiest brews to good use. You left out a word in the sentence about borage self-sowing. Subscribe to our newsletter to get the latest recipes and tips! Just water them until it starts raining, then stand back and let them take care of themselves through the winter. Gentiana lutea. 2-3 ‘Mexican Sour Gherkin’ cucumbers or regular cucumbers
Add borage. Some of these have been used for centuries to make not just liqueurs, but boozy medicinal potions as well. The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart is not the book I was expecting it to be. Elegant Theme. It has sent me on a fun discovery journey … The above recipe is absolutely delicious. Champagne and a splash of St-Germain elderflower liqueur? A trail around the bay.
The individual petals make a nice enough garnish, but a drink with a handful of petals floating in it starts to resemble a salad more than a cocktail.
In the book's introduction, Stewart says, "Every great drink starts with a plant" and of course, this is obviously true. Crushed ice A few years later, somebody in Brooklyn decided it might be refreshing to order a drink with some whiskey in it, and pretty soon we all remembered about the Manhattan... Posted on Jun 26, 2012 in Featured, Recipes | Comments Off on Summer. .5 oz rhubarb-lemon verbena simple syrup Discover (and save!) Pretty, but likes to takeover, moreso than mint (at least with me, who CAN kill mint). Some HTML is OK: link, strong, em. Gently crush the berries and herbs with a muddler. 4-5 chunks fresh watermelon
Optional: fresh jalapeño slice 1-2 oz whiskey The Lillet will keep about a month in the fridge after you open it, and if you can’t get G’vine (a lovely French gin made from a grape spirit similar to... Posted on Oct 22, 2011 in Drink This, Recipes | Comments Off on A Lemon Drop Done Right.
.5 oz Crème de violette The book has recipes for many basic drinks, some, like the aforementioned gin, and some were novel to me.
A few variations on the martini followed, most notably the godawful “dirty Martini” made with excessive amounts of olive brine, and the vodka-based Cosmopolitan, which featured prominently in HBO’s “Sex and the City.” That gets us to about 1999. [Photograph: Wikimedia Commons]. From the always clever and enterprising people at CLASS Magazine comes this video on the creation of an Old-Fashioned variation made with sweet potato syrup. Shake well over ice and strain into a cocktail glass. Make simple syrup by heating equal parts sugar and water until the sugar melts, then add the lemongrass allow to cool and steep for one hour.
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We roasted our late summer veggies, ate some elk steak, and enjoyed this drink.
The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart is not the book I was expecting it to be. .5 oz Combier or another orange liqueur Next up are trees—angostura, birch, cinchona, cinnamon, sugar maple. The Drunken Botanist. Add fresh (or dried) chamomile blossoms and allow to steep for 1 hour, then strain. Some, of course, are less practical than others. The Drunken Botanist is making everybody’s year-end, must-have list. One fabulous flaming red drink in the middle of... Posted on Jan 18, 2012 in Featured, Recipes | 5 comments. Squeeze lime into cocktail shaker and add other ingredients. It just so happens that beer cocktails were all the rage this summer at Tales of the Cocktail, the big annual booze industry extravaganza in New Orleans. I have yet to be disappointed with a drink I have discovered on this site! It is almost too late to write this column–almost. A general plan. Catch up with Amy on her nationwide, never-ending Drunken Botanist book tour. Not every flower belongs in a cocktail glass. The hops add just the right note of bracing citrusy bitterness, and the beer gives it a little fizz. Rhubarb and Rye A delightful twist on the classic Manhattan from Adam Chumas at Tilth in Seattle. But if you're curious about the plants you're drinking with each toast, I recommend The Drunken Botanist, an delightfully informative and entertaining book about the basic ingredients of beverage alcohol. There is one new and unusual ingredient here: Combier Kummel, a modern version of a traditional caraway, cumin, and fennel-flavored herbal liqueur. 1 thin lemon slice 6 cherry tomatoes or 1-2 slices large tomato Reserve one small strawberry or a slice for garnish. 3-4 sprigs‘Margarita’ spearmint or rosemary Combine all ingredients excep the tonic water in a cocktail shaker and gently crush the vegetables and... Posted on Jan 6, 2013 in Drink This, Recipes | Comments Off on Lemongrass Mojito. Great night! 1.5 oz Hangar One Citron ‘Buddha’s Hand’ or Mandarin Blossom Vodka. The perfect margarita is all about fresh, crisp flavors, barely tempered by sweet triple sec. She acknowledges that only the most die-hard of home-brewers, for example, will grow their own barley. The book features several types of informative sidebars.