By day I’m a tech / video game geek, but in the evenings I transform into an amateur bartender. I cannot abide obnoxious drunks, digging a lime wedge out of a floor drain at two in the morning, sour mix, being friendly when I’m pissed off, or making more than four drinks at a time, so I will never be a professional. Cheers to those brave souls who can.
And yes, I’m a major G. Love fan. G, if you ever want the domain, it’s yours.
i don’t know who you are but you are my new hero.
one non professional bartender to the next.
cheers. now settle up and go home
You are very kind 🙂 Cheers to you, too!
Hey Dana, my twitter friend @Documentally has a challenge & I wondered if you had any ideas?
“I need to invent a cocktail by next month.. I have a name.. It’s an anagram of my name.. ‘Preach Insanity’ I need an ingredient of religious persuasion (that’s the preach bit) and something insane or that makes you insane.. Like absinth. Any ideas welcome.”
Happy New Year to you & Matt & dogzes
Anna xx
Well, you could go for something made by monks, like Chartreuse or Benedictine, for the religious angle. The insane part is a little more complicated. Absinthe will only make you crazy if you get improperly distilled stuff. Otherwise, it’s just booze. You could just go for a high-proof base spirit and call that the ‘insanity’ part. I’ve been making something recently that might work, if you used naval-strength gin. (Martin Miller’s Westbourne strength would do nicely.)
2 oz gin or genever
.5 oz Yellow Chartreuse
.5 oz Dolin Blanc vermouth
2 dashes Scrappy’s orange bitters (if you don’t get those, try Regan’s or Angostura Orange)
Stir / strain. Have enough of them and you’ll start feeling the insanity. 🙂
-D-