A little bubbly can cure what ails your brain. The ethanol found in liquor boosts the antioxidant quotient of strawberries and blackberries. Guess the old cliché of strawberries and Champagne isn’t so corny after all…
Black Velvet
November 27th, 2005 | by nerdling | published in beer, recipes
Yes, this sounds like a terrible idea. I mean, beer mixed with wine? In the same glass? But the Black Velvet was just perverse enough to be worth trying. I wound up with eight pints of Guinness in my fridge, and the half bottle of champagne left from my French 76 and Juniper Royale experiments [...]
Juniper Royale
November 26th, 2005 | by nerdling | published in gin, recipes, sparkling wine
Mmmmm, gin and champagne. Perhaps no one else will think so, but the Juniper Royale sounded positively yummy. Adding orange juice and cranberry juice to champagne makes nice drinks individually, so together, and with gin, it looked like a winning combination. This deduction was verified by the experiment, which was a terribly anti-climactic result after [...]
French 76
November 25th, 2005 | by nerdling | published in recipes, vodka
We had a bottle of highly mediocre sparkling wine chilling in the fridge from our recent move. I wanted to experiment with some of the cocktails that use wine, and the French 76 sounded like a good place to start. It combines liquor with wine, as well as a dash of tartness and sweetness. It [...]
