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The Top Five Absinthe Cocktails
Now that absinthe is legal in America, what are you going to do with it?
I share some information about absinthe and suggest the five best cocktails in which to use it.
You may not have noticed thanks to the incredible blog technology that allows me to write posts in advance, but I was out of the country all last week. Here are some things that have stuck in my brain as I catch up on my reading:
Eric Felten (I pretty much link to his column every week) writes about the Sherry Cobbler, and how it popularized both the cocktail shaker and the straw.
Then he wrote about Georgian (not the US one) brandy.
W. Blake Gray says that "Nigori is the White Zinfandel of sake," but found one he actually likes.
Partying like it's 1905, towns in New Zealand move to ban absinthe.
They're dropping like flies in SF! Thomas Waugh left The Alembic for the shores of NYC, and Jacqueline Patterson is no longer managing the bar at Orson but is still in town. Unconfirmed rumor is that Carlos Yturria is no longer at Grand Pu Bah and is now bar manager at Bacar.
Heaven Hill is releasing a Tabasco-branded tequila. Now that's a spicy margarita!
Eric Felten disses the gun and takes on boutique tonic and Italian sodas. Also, a history of drinking and the Olympics.
Darcy at The Art of Drink finds an early historical reference to falernum- and a recipe.
A New York bar opens that serves only absinthe and beer.
Oh Gosh manages to find four Old Tom gins to compare. One is from a brand called "Secret Treasures." Sounds dirty.
Fermentarium has 8 drunk driving lessons we can learn from beer nuts.
John Hansell has the lowdown on a new rye whiskey coming to market in October.
Siobhan Crosby of Imbibe Magazine is growing hops
in her back yard.
Bill Dowd has the info on the "Urban Bourbon Trail" in Louisville, Kentucky. I'm heading there next month for the Kentucky Bourbon Festival so maybe I'll see some of these spots.
Hendrick's Gin is giving away a theramin.
David Wondrich's Five Best Absinthes story from Esquire is online.
