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Yes. Yes you did.

My guess is it involves Mt. Dew and the last living virgin in NJ.

Fuck this weather! A Blinker x 2 2 oz Rendevous Rye 1 oz Grapefruit Juice 1 tsp Raspberry Syrup Shake and double strain into a cocktail glass. Express and then garnish with a lemon peel twist.

Happy Birthday to you good sir.

I'm such a sheep. Sweet-N-Hot Bourhatten, slightly modified with Carpano Antica filling in for the Dolin.

Mamie Taylor Cocktail 2 oz Asyla Scotch 3/4 oz Lime Juice (fresh) Fill 6 oz flute with Fentimans Ginger Beer, stir, garnish with lime wedge Thank you, I will have another.

Nice garnish on the Blackthorn Marc. Decided to retry the Blood and Sand, same recipe I used previously but substituting the Asyla for the Glenlivet OK Asyla must be bottled by Apple with added unicorn dust. I finished this off before I could get this posted.

Much better cocktail name Al, sounds like something to be drinking while listening to jazz. As far as the beer versus cocktail battle, it's not a war, only a police action. Moving on from Left Coast Babs to the Blackthorn Cocktail 2 oz gin 3/4 oz Dubonnet 3/4 oz kirsch Stir with ice in a mixing glass and strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a Maraschino cherry and a lemon twist. Moving in the right direction. Better.

Nice Spritz Shelly. The Sparkling water is a nice tweak. Decided to try a Barbara West Cocktail 2 oz gin 1 oz sherry 1/2 oz lemon juice 1 dash Angostura bitters Shake in an iced cocktail shaker and double strain into a cocktail glass. Garnish with a lemon twist. About as good as its name, mediocre.

Been wanting to try an Arnaud's Special Cocktail with the Compass Box Asyla ever since Marc's glowing recommendation. So 2oz Asyla, 1oz Dubonnet Rouge, 3 dashes Fee Brother's Orange Bitters Recipe says shake but I stirred and garnished with an orange twist. If I had three thumbs, they would all be up. Marc has good taste.

The absolute strap from Tom Bihn is the schiznit. It makes the airboss perfect. The standard Red Oxx strap works great on the gator and metro but was not that great on the airboss. The Tom Bihn absolute strap fixed that.

Blackwoods Gin, Dolin dry Martini, 6:1 It is not crap.

G & T - Junipero and Fever Tree

Mmmmm ... Stagg. Nice.

Tom Bihn: Absolute Shoulder Strap, Side Effect and Snake Charmer. Emotiva: XDA-1

Almagoozlum comparison using Boomsma Oude (left) and Anchor Genevieve (right) same recipe as previous but reduced the gum syrup from 3/4 to 1/4 oz. As far as I can tell no difference between the two. Makes sense given some of the other highly flavored booze in there. Still a bit sweet but definitely not a pansy drink based upon alcohol content. I want to order one of these in bar, perhaps soon. What did you think of it Al?

Old curmudgeon ale

Since you guys are out west of here you may want to give the rendezvous rye from High West distillery a try. Just sayin'. The alamagoozlum is a bit sweet but it is pretty layered in tastes and goes down pretty easy. I want to compare the Oude and Genevieve in it side by side. Maybe tonight if I get home at a reasonable hour.

First did a quick comparison of the Boomsma Oude (old) and the Genevieve The Boomsma Oude is more subdued than the Genevieve and has less bite. To be expected given the oak barrel aging of the Boomsma. Nevertheless, the Genevieve appears to be a true Genever as the basic flavor profile to me is about the same. Next a cocktail I have been wanting to mix for a while The Alamagoozlum Cocktail 1/4 egg white 1 oz genever (Boomsma Oude) 1 oz water (ddi) 3/4 oz Jamaican rum (Smith and Cross Navy Proof) 3/4 oz yellow Chartreuse or green Chartreuse (Green) 3/4 oz gomme syrup (Scrappy's) 1/4 oz Curaçao (Gabriel Boudier Dijon) 1/4 oz Angostura bitters Shake hard and long (no comments) with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. (I cut the recipe in half as it was supposed to make three)

Heh, I thought the warning was nice so I left it on. I missed the knife earlier Shelly and agree with Al that it does not look gaudy. I love the handle.

Nice! I noticed the ingredients for a few other Anvil cocktails have also been acquired.

Pink Gin Definitely better with Plymouth. As for the Genever, I am going to look for the Boomsma Oude and the Genevieve and do a comparison. Now who can argue with that!

So now that I almost have my life back there are a few cocktails I would like to mix up that call for Genever. Any favorite brands?

^^^ This. Also used to be a matte fanboi, but now it's glossy FTW.