Category: Classics

• Drinking Poetic (on a Wednesday): The Los Angeles Sour

  

  The Los Angeles Cocktail is terrible and is a perfect example of a bad drink that survives because it’s old.  Buried within the pages of the Savoy Cocktail book, one of the quintessential drink tomes of the Golden and Modern cocktail age, is a drink that reads like a New Yorker describing their “totally real” visit to […]

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  March 6, 2019

  Bushmills, Classics, cocktails, Competition, Drinking Poetic, History, Savoy, Whiskey Wednesday

  Bushmills, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Los Angeles Sour, New York Sour, NoMad LA, Old Overholt, Savoy Cocktail Book, Teeling, Whiskey Wednesday

• Drinking Poetic: The Old Fashioned

  

  “I prefer things the Old Fashioned Way!” said every generation ever as things changed around them. The Old Fashioned is my favorite cocktail. It appeals to me on such a deeply intellectual level that it rivals the psychic imprint that Lord of the Rings had on me in the third grade. And the imprint this […]

  bottledinbondla

  September 19, 2018

  Classics, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, History, Spirits, Whiskey Wednesday

  Bitters, Bottled-In-Bond, Bottled-In-Bond LA, Classics, Cocktail, Drinking Poetic, History, Old Fashioned, Spirit, Spirits, Sugar, Whisk(e)y, Whiskey Wednesday

• Drinking Poetic: The Hemingway Daquiri

  

  I feel a certain kinship with Hemingway. I’d like to think it’ because we both have an affinity with words but there’s no denying that the legend of Hemingway has been at least as influential as the man himself. And just like the man himself the truth is always more complicated. Hemingway was, like most […]

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  June 29, 2018

  Classics, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Rum

  Classics, Cuba, Daquiri, Drinking Poetic, Hemingway, Hemingway Daquiri, History, Papa Doble, Rum