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Volume XI
The Long Pour
Seventy drinks, sorted by the bottle you already own rather than by occasion. Six spirit chapters and a zero-proof chapter that is a chapter, not an apology at the back. Every recipe is given in ounces and milliliters, with the dilution and the chill written down instead of left to luck.
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What's inside
These reward restraint. The smoky ones ask for mezcal rather than a reposado, and say so.
American whiskey drinks, each noting whether the sweeter bourbon or the drier rye is the better pour.
Each one either gets out of the way of the malt or uses the smoke as an ingredient.
Built on the botanicals, which do half the work before anything else goes in.
The spirit carries rather than adds, so these are built on what is with it — coffee, citrus, tomato, ginger.
Cane spirit, half of it tiki, which is mostly a matter of using three rums where one would do.
Not cocktails with the gin left out. Acid, tannin, bitterness and salt do what the alcohol was doing.
Sample recipe · page 18
Old Fashioned
- 2 oz (60 ml) bourbon
- 1 tsp simple syrup
- 3 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 cup ice cubes
- 1 large ice cube, for the glass
- 1 strip orange peel
- Combine the bourbon, syrup and bitters in a mixing glass.
- Add ice and stir 30 turns. The glass should frost and the volume should visibly rise.
- Strain over one large cube.
- Express the orange peel over the top, rub it round the rim and drop it in.
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