Learning About Wheat Beer
Wheat beers are beers that are brewed with both malted barley and malted wheat, rather than using just barley. The addition of wheat will lend wheat beers a lighter flavor and somewhat paler color than most all barley ales and beers. Wheat beer is normally top fermented, which is fermentation with ale yeast.
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5 Cocktails Everyone Should Know How to Make-#2
The Manhattan
Another whiskey based cocktail, more of a variation on a Martini. Where the Martini is gin and dry vermouth, the Manhattan is whiskey and sweet vermouth. And don’t forget the bitters! Angostura or Peychaud’s works fine.
3 parts Canadian or Rye Whiskey
1 part Sweet (Red) Vermouth
1 dash bitters
Make in mixing glass filled with ice. Stir until very cold (stirring is very important to help the ice melt to water it down a bit and make it more palatable). Pour into cocktail glass and garnish with a maraschino cherry.
Variations:
Trade the whiskey for scotch to make it a Rob Roy. Trade with brandy for a Metropolitan. If you desire the drink to be sweeter, add some juice from the maraschino cherries.
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5 cocktails everyone should know how to make
This is the first post in a series about the essential 5 cocktails one should know how to make. Here is the first;
The Old Fashioned
The Old Fashioned is a bourbon based cocktail, but try it with any whisky. You may find you like the sweeter taste of a Canadian whisky, the more sour taste of the Tennessee stuff, or, for some complexity, use rye. This drink uses a short round glass, sometimes called an Old Fashioned glass, after the drink itself.
Put 1 sugar cube in glass
Add 2-3 dashes of Angostura bitters
Add 1 Splash of Soda Water
Muddle (smash) until sugar is dissolved
Fill glass with ice cubes
Add whiskey to the top of the glass, stir
Garnish with an orange slice and maraschino cherry
Notes on Muddling: To muddle just means to smash. You can use whatever is at your disposal. Some bartenders muddle with the back of their bar spoon for light muddling and use a muddler (basically a wooden dowel about the width of a broom handle) for more intense smashing.
Variations:
For a sweeter drink, add more sugar or muddle a peeled orange slice along with the sugar and bitters. For a weaker drink, use less whisky and top with soda water. Use just whiskey, sugar, and bitters to make the Sazerac (swirl the glass with absinthe and dump out before filling for a true one).
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Ayn Rand Libertarian Cocktail
Ayn Rand was born on this day in 1905. To celebrate her birthday, we offer the Ayn Rand Libertarian cocktail.
3/4 oz white rum
3/4 oz Calvados® brandy
1 tsp sugar
1 lime wedge
Press a sugar cube onto a lime wedge in a small highball glass. Add calvados and rum, stir well, and add ice cubes. Stir again, and serve.
Enjoy!
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.”
Ayn Rand
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George Burns Classic
Actor and entertainer George Burns was born this day in 1896 in New York City. Here is a drink recipe to help you celebrate.
Here’s to you George! Enjoy.
Ingredients:
* 2 oz Gin
* 2 oz Club soda
* 1/4 tsp Anisette
* 1/2 tsp Sugar
* 1 oz Lime juice
* Fill with Ginger ale
Mixing instructions:
Combine the lime juice, club soda, and sugar into a collins glass. Stir, then add ice cubes, Anisette, and gin. Stir again. Fill drink with ginger ale. Stir well and serve.
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