Any Baby Boomers not read The Catcher in the Rye in high school? Didn’t think so. It’s J.D. Salinger’s birthday today and he gets credit for creating the Scotch and Soda that Holden ordered while trying to impress the bartender in a Manhattan hotel.
Happy New Years Day!
– Jet Cannon
We were looking for a cocktail to enjoy during one of the 437 college bowl games this holiday season and we came across the Hail Mary in pastemagazine.com. What was intriguing about the recipe was some of the ingredients for their Voluptuous Mix. Now whether you’re making your own bloody mix or just tarting-up a store-bought mix, consider including these ingredients:
Here’s the link to the Hail Mary recipe plus some other football-themed cocktails including the Boozy Blitz and Tailgate Tea.
Go Southern Coastal Institute State!!
– Jet Cannon
Midnightmixologist.com knows that “bourbon and citrus make the perfect holiday blend. Boxing Day is an easy going cocktail that keeps a party going and can be sipped over a long evening. The blood orange and lemon are a perfect balance to the sweet of the Bourbon and simple syrup. This could easily turn into a year around favorite.”
We agree!
Mix in a shaker with ice, pour into a glass and enjoy. Garnish with with orange or lemon peel.
– Jet Cannon
Want a head start on dry January while still enjoying a holiday aperitif? Check out De Soi, a wellness venture from singer Katy Perry. No alcohol. Just botanicals. Gives you something to sip if you’re the designated driver at those fancy holiday parties.
– Jet Cannon
Photo: Vogue Singapore
How does a snowman get to work? By icicle.
You would think that’s really funny if you’d had a couple of Snowshoe cocktails. That’s half bourbon and half peppermint schnapps. That’s it.
That would be the Smoking Bishop. Essentially it’s an orange and clove-spiked mulled port. What’s important about the bowl of Bishop is that the punch bowl is like the communal well. Nice for the holidays. Also important from English history is that you would get drunk and laugh at the church at the same time. For more on the history and the recipe for you Scrooge fans, read more from Tori Avey here.
We love folks who are passionate about their work, particularly when it involves distilling spirits like rum. We recently enjoyed a Three Dogs and a Cat cocktail at Monkeypod that used Kuleana Nanea Rum as one of its ingredients. Kuleana makes rhum agricola.
Rhum agricole is the French term for sugarcane juicerum, a style of rum originally distilled in the French Caribbean islands from freshly squeezed sugarcane juice rather than molasses.
With the closure of Hawaii‘s crystalline sugar producing mills, some artisanal distilleries have opened which continue production of cane for rhum agricole. Thanks Wikipedia.
Kuleana Rum Works was born on the island of Hawai’i in 2013 to make and share exquisite rum while creating a thriving local business that celebrates the richness of Hawai’i. They aim to elevate rum by celebrating it as a world-class spirit. They do this by making rum from the best ingredients on Earth and without added sweeteners, flavors, or coloring. Read the whole story here and then give non-molasses rhum agricole a try.
Why not celebrate a light summer beer in December? Who picks these national days? But it works in Hawaii especially if you go with Bikini Blonde from Maui Brewing. Cheers!
This coming Friday, and the first Friday of every December, is National Bartenders Day. If you’re lucky, you have a bartender who knows your name AND…. Your Drink! Now…. How to thank them? No idea. But we all have some time to work on it. Best of luck because a good bartender deserves thanks and recognition.
– Jet Cannon
The Apple Cup is over and Blue Mountain Cider Maker, Abe, is back in Milton-Freewater, Oregon making cider with only the freshest apples. While his beloved Cougars lost, we’re certain the crushing, decisive defeat won’t affect his cider-making performance.
“Blue Mountain Cider is a premier producer of hard ciders made from apples we grow in Oregon at the southern end of the Walla Walla Valley. Founded in 2003 by Ron Brown, a second generation apple farmer in the Walla Walla Valley, Blue Mountain Cider is still in family hands and with Ron’s son Andrew Brown heading up winemaking and his son Jared Brown overseeing the apple farm. Blue Mountain Cider uses only apples we grow and always makes its cider fresh pressed, never from concentrate. Blue Mountain Cider is the embodiment of the Brown families efforts to create the world’s best hard ciders.”
Abe, there’s always next year!
– Jet Cannon
If you’re watching the World Cup you know what a Yellow Card is. Or maybe you’ve been hit with one on the home front. Regardless, Mantitlement.com has a cocktail that says, “I not sure I agree with your decision to issue me a Yellow Card but a few sips of this cocktail and I’m feeling better in general.” Or something like that.
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USA! USA!
– Jet Cannon
Turkey, stuffing, potatoes, gravy, Cranberry Orange Whiskey Sour, Pumpkin Pie Martini, Cranberry Jello Shots.
Delish has 35 T-Day cocktail recipes to consider. For example, we’re going to try the Big Apple Manhattan, as we were recently visiting the Big Apple Manhattan. And we happen to have some fresh-off-the-tree Washington State Cosmic Crisp apples on hand (thanks Rob). So seems appropriate. Here’s the recipe. For the other 34 in Delish, click here!
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Happy Holidays!
– Jet Cannon
Citizens! Help stop the invasive green crab invasion! Drink Tamworth Crab Trapper Whiskey!
Besides causing other problems, the little crab varmints can eat 40 mussels a day. One crab! They’re bad and they deserve to be made into whiskey!! Read more about that here.
To see what other innovative spirits Tamworth Distilling has concocted, see their website here.
– Jet Cannon
Photo: Daily Mail
Two days before the World Cup starts, host country Qatar announced that beer will not be sold, as originally promised, in the stadiums. Soccer fans are understandably confused and angry since beer helps make a nil-nil match super-exciting. As for the rest of us back home…. cheers!
