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Onion Breath

November 21st, 2005  |  by nerdling  |  published in vodka

This is not a drink for the faint of stomach. If you don’t like onions or vinegar, stay away from the Onion Breath. Then again, if, like me, you like Dirty Martinis and all things pickled, you’ll probably like this.
The quality of the cocktail onions is the key to this one (aside, naturally, from the [...]

Purple Hooter

November 20th, 2005  |  by nerdling  |  published in liqueur, vodka

I felt honor bound to try this based solely on its name. The Purple Hooter is just too good to pass up.
I was looking for a cocktail to make for my roommate—a vodka enthusiast—when I stumbled upon this little sweetie. Though the recipe called for citrus vodka, I had to substitute with raspberry (as the [...]

Moscow Mule

November 17th, 2005  |  by nerdling  |  published in vodka

I was originally interested in it because I saw a photo of the Moscow Mule in a book, and after reading the history of the drink, I was even more charmed. It originated in a pub that was a favorite hang for co-eds at my alma mater when an unusually large shipment of ginger beer [...]

Very Chanilla

November 16th, 2005  |  by nerdling  |  published in vodka

This is a drink my boyfriend picked out, thinking that the heavily cherry concoction sounded like a fun experiment for my burgeoning skills. It was indeed a good test—I hadn’t worked with anything but liquor, liqueur, mixers and straight juices—and the real-fruit content of the Very Chanilla made it sound like an appealing change, as [...]