Welcome to “Making Simple Cocktails,” our video series at Simple Cocktails! In episode #2, Lisa and Greg make the classic Tom Collins Cocktail. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here for more great cocktail videos!
Tom Collins
I’m not gonna lie: this is one of the most herbal, flavorful, tingle-your-tongue cocktails I’ve made in the last year, and it’s most certainly the most herbal rum cocktail I think I’ve ever tried (thanks Galliano!).
Yellow Bird Cocktail
We’ve made a Yellow Bird on the Simple Cocktails Podcast, too. Listen here.
Frank Sinatra. “You’re not supposed to burst into laughter.” Not allowed to talk about Frank. Greg says something about Johnny Depp though. We taste Old Port Rum – Lisa says it’s “too advanced.” We talk bitey gins. “Don’t you say that through your teeth.” We make a Pink Gin. A face like a 4-year-old? “I would hold this in a crowd.” Fly me to the moon.
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I recently got a new bottle of Bacardi (with the logo and font redesign) and I flipped through my cocktail books for some classic white rum cocktails. This one fascinated me – basically a rum version of a 50/50 Martini (equal parts liquor and vermouth), but with the addition of bitters.
As I looked around the web for versions of this drink, I think there should be two different versions of what I made here. First, the Palmetto with dry vermouth should use orange bitters, not aromatic, as the drink would be relatively clear and the flavor probably would be better. Second, you can make a Sweet Palmetto which would use rum, sweet vermouth, and probably your standard aromatic bitters.
Try both, and see which you prefer!
Palmetto Cocktail
Welcome to “Making Simple Cocktails,” our new video series at Simple Cocktails! On episode #1, Lisa and Greg make a pair of simple Valentine’s Day Cocktails. Subscribe to our YouTube channel here for more great cocktail videos!
Love Birds
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Old Fashioned Dice Game. What about the BeanBoozed challenge…with booze? We taste the “scary bottle,” Porter’s Fire. Lisa’s two classic drinks. “Isn’t that laughed at in your realm?” Cocaine jokes? Dirty frosting. We make a Lemon Drop with Smirnoff Cirtus. Put a curly-cue lemon rind on it.
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As a refresher for those who’re new to this blog, gin was really the liquor that eased me in to quality, classic cocktails. My first year of blogging took me from a time when I’d tasted 1-2 gins to tasting dozens.
I’ve also realized that like any liquor, there is a massive variety of flavor possibilities and I prefer some gins over others. At this point, though, I’m realizing that flavored gin is not so common. Seagram’s has a variety of gin flavors, sure, but up until now, the only flavored gin I’ve tried is Tanqueray Rangpur.
Lisa and I tasted Uncle Val’s Peppered Gin for the first time on this week’s podcast episode. One thing’s for sure: this is a unique gin. The specific ingredients in Uncle Val’s Peppered are red pepper, black pepper, and pimento. The pepper is not present at all in the nose at all, but your throat gets fills with a peppery hotness when you swallow. So much, in fact, that it’s a little alarming.
We wondered if maybe a Red Snapper (a gin Bloody Mary) or a Gin and Tonic would be good fit for this gin, and it turns out that it is. I made a G&T (shown above) and it was quite good: sweet, peppery, and herbal in it’s flavor – a good fit. I imagine a Red Snapper will be equally great.
I REALLY like black pepper, as you may have seen in some of my breakfast instagrams, and I really like gin too, but this is a new flavor profile for me. It smells like a soft citrusy gin and tastes like a lot of pepper. Because of that, your Snappers and G&Ts will welcome the change of pace, but your Martinis may be a little too rough-tasting with this specific gin.
A long day ends with gin. Greg’s a trained liquor athlete. What liquor olympics would really look like….a lot of puke. We taste Uncle Val’s Peppered Gin. Valerie confusion. Greg references Tanqueray Rangpur. Pepper on melons. Benjamin Franklin? We make a Snap Happy cocktail…but is it really a cocktail? Lisa may actually like this. A netherworld.
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There have been a handful of cocktails in the last few months that are liquor-and-chocolate combos, like the Commodore or the Floridita. Here’s another one that’s simply whiskey, creme de cacao, and bitters, and has a pretty awesome flavor profile. It’s an easy dessert cocktail without being overwhelmingly sweet.
Fox River
Lisa associates with the editor. “Dropping” or “doing” absinthe? “It’s like you knew what to ask me.” We taste Trinity Absinthe which may or may not make you insane. “It’s a little ornate.” We make a Gall Bracer. Jokes vs cocktails! “It’s like Elvis.”
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