scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - May 1, 2011, 3:13 pm
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Mar 16, 2011, 2:25 pm
The Anejo Manhattan (or, as Robert Hess in his The Essential Bartender’s Guide specifies, MANhattan) was found some time ago at Jay Hapburn’s Oh! Gosh! Blog. As far I could remember I was looking for some interesting concoctions to mix with my new Licor 43. The recipe sounded pretty interesting ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Mar 11, 2011, 4:18 am
My today’s excursus is devoted to quite a novel thing – a modern and interesting cocktail – the Satin Manhattan. Yes, you are right – it is the Manhattan here over again. But there is no need to be bored as so far we have explored a mixology construction of the Manhattan and now we
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Mar 1, 2011, 3:57 pm
Today I want to toy with one of three classic variations of the Manhattan – the Perfect Manhattan. As we know, the Manhattan Cocktail has three well-known varieties – the Sweet Manhattan (basically a Manhattan. Actually, nobody names the Manhattan as the ‘Sweet’ Manhattan), the Dry Manhattan...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Feb 26, 2011, 6:03 pm
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Feb 25, 2011, 10:18 am
Now, we have a third S.I.P. – an exciting on-line event for Russian-speaking blogers-imbibers. If you are following my blog, you may know what the S.I.P. is something like a Russian-speaking MxMo. Previous two S.I.P. kindled the Russian-speaking mixosphere and gave rise to some new blogs. So we w...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Feb 15, 2011, 4:25 pm
Well, I feel like putting aside for a while my Manhattan project because some new creative horizons opened before me with the arrival of some samples of whisky which I got from the Master of Malt – a British whisky retailer with 25 year experience and world-wide reputation. Some time ago they lau...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Feb 5, 2011, 10:09 am
I have shaken off my unexpected ailment to be back to shaking cocktails again. My passion – Manhattan – took a two week holiday while I was being shaken by fever. Yet my new old infatuation with Manhattan found its way around and became the topic of our next S.I.P. Isn’t that great! Well, now ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jan 18, 2011, 4:25 pm
My new passion is Manhattan. Manhattan is old and classic cocktail with american whiskey (bourbon or rye), sweet vermouth and cocktail bitters. One of the key ingredient of the good Manhattan is vermouth. Unfortunately we have very pour range of vermouth in Ukraine now. There are available Martini, ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jan 16, 2011, 3:27 pm
Angostura bitter is hard available in the Ukraine. But Angostura bitter is essential ingredient of the famous Manhattan. Manhattan is truly magnificient cocktail. As Garry Regan wrote in they The Joy of Mixology Manhattan is King of Cocktail. Actually we can make acquaintance with Manhattan with hel...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jan 9, 2011, 2:15 am
Actually I posted about Hurricane Cocktail some years ago. Hurricane Cocktail (especially Dale DeGfroff’s version) is one of my favorite tiki cocktail. Now I want try the “original” version of this grink from Grog Log by Beachbum Berry. I was found this recipe with very good opinion at two gre...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jan 7, 2011, 1:28 pm
This cocktail I found in Michael Jackson’s Pocked Bar Book (I have Russian edition of this book). The story and origin of the Louisiana Lullaby Cocktail are unknown. In my book are remark from author – “Louisiana Lullaby is an american cocktail for Francophils”. Not so informative… Recipe...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jan 5, 2011, 11:13 am
As you know the most of Russian and Ukrainian are orthodox christians. The Orthodox Christmas is celebrated January 7. Actually we don’t drink cocktail on the Christmas. On the over hand Americans has very interesting Christmas drink – Tom and Jerry. This drink is hot egg nog – the winter beve...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 30, 2010, 5:20 pm
New Year coming soon. And we need some special for our holiday party. We drink different cocktails year around and for New Year Night we need something unusual and festive. Many people has very good tradition – to celebrate New Year with glass of Champagne or another sparkling wine. Thus I select ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 27, 2010, 3:37 pm
This cocktail I was found in the awesome book – Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails by Ted Haigh. Dr. Cocktail suggest that this cocktail was created by Emil Bauwens – head barman of the Bar Saint-James in Brussels. The drink was described in the Emil’s book Livre de Cocktails. The name of...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 24, 2010, 3:12 pm
The Deshler Cocktail attract my attention at the one interesting cocktail bolg with good fotos – . . Cocktails with M . . – Adventures with (Mostly) Vintage Cocktails. The autor of this blog like old and classic cocktail and thi is very close to me. Now I explore many cocktail with Dubonnet – ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 19, 2010, 2:25 pm
With our today cocktail – Opera Cocktail – I decide to taste two my maraschino liqueurs – LUXARDO Maraschino Originale and generic BOLS Maraschino. My first maraschino liqueur was DK Marasquin. Then I acquire the BOLS liqueur I tested both and conclude that BOLS is more interesting, natural an...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 10, 2010, 11:41 am
As you know there ara many kinds of cocktail – aperetive, digestive, all time drinks and over. Now I want to explore some interesting after dinner drinks – classic dessert coctails which groups to “Alexander’s family”. The main cocktail of this family is famous Alexander Cocktail. As Barry...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 6, 2010, 2:15 pm
It is no secret that I prefer bitter-sweet cocktail. And now, after the great S.I.P. #2, which was devoted to one of the world-famous sour – the Sidecar, I am enthusiastic with bitter cocktail too. But I have not enough realy bitter ingredient in my bar – two bottle of fernet, one amaro and Camp...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Dec 3, 2010, 2:35 pm
The cocktail that I want to explore today I like for a long time. The recipe of this cocktail was at my blog some times ago. Actually the American Beauty Cocktail is in my Special Reserve. This flowery and extraordinary cocktail is one of the best choices for novice – it is not so strong,
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 30, 2010, 1:05 pm
About year ago one my friend presented me a bottle of NARDINI Fernet Amaro. I was intrigue by this black stylish bottle very much. Actually Italian amaro and fernet are one of my favorite local European beverage. Fernet is a strong type of amaro – herbal liqueur with bitter taste. Now I have two b...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 30, 2010, 10:59 am
Итак, я искренне поздравляю все участников нашего второго S.I.P.-а – наше молодое мероприятие развивается! Это очень приятно. Ведь мы пишем наши блоги не только для се...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 26, 2010, 11:08 am
Congratulation! Today we have our second S.I.P. – on-line event for russophone bloggers-inbibirs. The point of this event is in investigation and exploring great classic cocktail. Our S.I.P. #2 devote to Sidecar. The Sidecar Cocktail is great stuff for researching. This great classic cocktail has ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 22, 2010, 1:28 pm
The subject of MxMo LII is extremely clear and so close to me. The subject is Forgotten Cocktail. The author of this perfect theme and host of MxMo LII is Dennis from Rock & Rye blog. Actually exploring of forgotten cocktails are the very core of my hobby and a lot of cocktails at my
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 11, 2010, 4:12 pm
This cocktail I found at the Mandarine Napoleon promo-site. Actually I doubt promo-cocktails but in this case it is sounds great. Mandarine Old-Fashioned 25 ml Mandarine Napoleon liqueur 25 ml premium bourbon 1-2 dash Angostura bitter a piece of orange peel Put orange peel and bitter into old-fashi...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 8, 2010, 2:47 pm
The Boulevardier Cocktail was introduced for me by Eric Elestad. I read about this cocktail at his perfect blog – Underhill Lounge. His specify that The Boulevardier is more better cocktail than tasted Old Pal. And now I collected a few bottle of perfect bourbon whiskey and ready to taste some in...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Nov 4, 2010, 4:01 pm
The Agavoni Cocktail was founded in The Essential Bartender`s Guide by Robert Hess. Hess specify that this cocktail was created by Bastian Heuser for Mixology Magazine, Berlin, Germany. Actually the Agavoni is Negroni with a tequila blanco instead of gin and with two dashes of orange bitters and g...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 30, 2010, 6:38 am
The Coffee Cocktail is so old fancy drink. It is so similar to flip. The oldest entry about Coffee Cocktail are in the Bartender’s Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Plain and Fancy Drinks (1887) by Jerry Thomas and Bartender’s Manual or How to Mix Drinks of the Present Style (1882, rev. 1934)
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 27, 2010, 10:57 pm
The Clover Club Cocktail is truly magnificient cocktail. This drink has all elements of great classic cocktail – the interesting story, simple and elegant composition and it is almost forgotten. This cocktail was created (as Albert Stevens Crockett specify in his Old Waldorf Bar Days (1931) or The...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 20, 2010, 4:35 pm
Today we explore one interesting old cocktail with my favorite autumn spirit – gin. This cocktail has two similar name – Bermudiana Rose (in English cocktail books like Cafe Royal Cocktail Book by W.J. Tarling, 1937 or Cocktails and Mixed Drinks by Anthony Hogg, 1979) or Bermuda Rose (in America...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 18, 2010, 7:38 am
In this post I describe real cock tail – amazing multicolor drink – Pousse Cafe. The Pousse Cafe cocktail is so old creation. This drink was invented in the Europe (France), probably. But we can found suggestions that this cocktail was invented in New Orlean, USA. The first print recipe with ill...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 16, 2010, 2:09 pm
This entry was inspired by one of my new bottle of tequila – the OLMECA Altos Reposado – one of my new free sample. Olmeca is a brand of tequila in Pernod Ricard`s spirits list. Now this company launch a new positions – premium tequila 100% de agave in medium price category – the OLMECA
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 11, 2010, 5:28 pm
The most cited story about Harvey Wallbanger Cocktail is about California surfer Harvey, who, after losing important competition one day visited his favorite Duke’s Blackwatch bar. He consumed a lot more of the special Screwdrivers (aromatized with Galliano) than he should have and it is causing t...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Oct 3, 2010, 12:02 pm
The summer is gone. We have very bad cold and rainy weather. I caught a cold and need a remedy. It is unique chance to test a hot cocktails! One of the oldest hot mixed drinks is Blue Blazer. The Blue Blazer cocktail was created by famous Jerry “Professor” Thomas at the Occidental Hotel in San
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 26, 2010, 4:03 am
Итак, дорогие мои русскоговорящие блоггеры-имбайберы, позвольте мне констатировать, что наш первый S.I.P. состоялся. Причем состоялся, как на мой взгляд, очень удачно....
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 23, 2010, 5:33 pm
Congratulations! Our first S.I.P. event is opened. Some information: S.I.P. or Slavonic Internet Party is on-line event for Russophone blogers-imbibers. This event is so similar to MxMo but has different language. The S.I.P. event as topis has cocktail only. The first topic is Margarita. Thus all po...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 20, 2010, 4:59 pm
The theme of this MxMo LI (fifty one – if you find difficulty in understanding Roman numerals as your humble narrator) is extremely gentle and large. And I must to thank our dear hoster – Doug Winship from one of the great cocktails blog in my opinion – The Pegu Blog. The lime is o...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 19, 2010, 12:08 pm
My dear readers! My blog has birthday today :) Three years ago I registered this domain and start blogging here. And than we may drink for this! I propose to drink one rare old-school cocktail – the Three Miller Cocktail. In my mind the name of this cocktail strongly connected to Prohibition ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 14, 2010, 2:18 pm
Today we drink the real old and almost forgotten cocktail – the Fairbanks Cocktail. The name of this cocktail as Ted “Doctor Cocktail” Haigh supposed origanate from Doug Fairbanks (movie star) or Charlie Fairbank (Amarican politician). Any way it is old but interesting drink. Act...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Sep 11, 2010, 1:17 pm
This post was inspirated by my new book – Old Man Drinks: Recipe, Advice, Barstool Wisdom by Robert Schnakenberg (Quirk Books, 2010).
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Aug 29, 2010, 4:27 pm
The MxMo is back! Great! And the scomorokh is back too :) Actually the topic of MxMo August: Brown, Bitter and Stirred is very interesting fo me. This MxMo hosted by Lindsey Johnson from Brown, Bitter and Stirred and thanks for great topic, Lindsey! This about true cocktail (and it is my choice now!...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jul 12, 2010, 3:09 pm
The Pina Colada is one of the most famous cocktail in the world. Actually Pina Colada is very popular cocktail on the Caribbean. It is official cocktail of the Puerto Rico. The Pina Colada (from Spanish – pina colada – strained pineapple) is tropical, sweet mixed drink which consist of ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jul 5, 2010, 4:25 pm
Now we explore two amazing mixed drinks with exotic Peruvian or Chile brandy – pisco. Both are right choice for hot summer evening and both are extremely delicious. Pisco is national Peruvian or Chile strong spirit. It is brandy obtained from muscat grapes. For my mixology I use Pisco Capel (...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jun 15, 2010, 4:07 pm
The extremely positive experience of exploring of Bloody Mary Cocktail inspire me to try some similar cocktail with another nutritious component. Two present cocktail – the Bull Shot and Bloody Bull – contains beef broth and I think it is very interesting. Bull Shot 45 ml vodka 1 ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jun 13, 2010, 5:42 pm
The Bloody Mary Cocktail is one of the most famous and most consumable cocktail in the world. It is great pick-me-up and anti-hang-over remedy. The key of this mix is a sauce. Two old and famous sauce – the Tabasco and the Worcestershire make Bloody Mary Bloody Mary. Bloody Mary Cocktail has ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jun 12, 2010, 6:30 am
The Cuba Libre Cocktail is great and simple choice for hot summer day or evening. This cocktail was created by unknown american solder under Cuban-Spanish War for Independence (1890-s). The Cuba Libre Cocktail has so simple composition – cuban rum, Coca-Cola and lime. The key of this cocktail ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jun 10, 2010, 12:25 pm
The Pimm`s #1 is old and famous premixed bottled drink which make with gin, herbs and liqueurs. The recipe of this liquor is secret. This beverage was created by James Pimm – the owner of an oyster bar in the City of London, near the Bank of England. The Pimm’s Cup is traditional english su...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - Jun 5, 2010, 8:30 am
The Tequila Sunrise is one of the pop-idol of modern age. This cocktail was invented in bar of Aqua Caliente, Tijuana, Mexico under the Prohibition. The authentic Tequila Sunrise Cocktail consist of tequila, fresh lime or lemon juice, grenadine and creme de cassis: Tequila Sunrise old-style 45 ...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - May 30, 2010, 3:37 pm
Now we explore two so similar cocktails of Prohibition Era. The Flamingo Cocktail and the Mary Pickford Cocktail. Both of this cocktails are so rare and hard to find in popular cocktails book. Both has similar composition with rum and pineapple with hint of fresh lime (Flamingo) or maraschino liqueu...
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scomorokh posted an article on Science of drink - May 21, 2010, 2:02 pm
The Old-Fashioned Cocktail is genuine cocktail. Actually, as Jerry Thomas suppose, cocktail is mix of strong spirit, bitter, sugar and water. Consequently the old-fashioned is the cocktail. Whiskey cocktail. Simple but famous and great. The Old-Fashioned Cocktail was created in the Pendennis Club ...
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