Richard, first of all let me thank you for the newsletter. Here at home we have started the habit of waiting for Friday for the end-of-work-week cocktail - it's been really fun to discover all of these and we really look forward to all the ones that will be coming up!
As for The Charlie Pie - this one was quite interesting. I am so accustomed to the Negroni that the first sip felt weird. Strange but familiar, with a different balance of flavours but still recognisable as a cousin of the Negroni. I like the extra presence of the gin, it works well. It still doesn't beat my favourite of the Negroni family, the Sbagliato - I love the bubliness of that one!
Now I'm off to enjoy the playlist - some great choices on this one, as usual!
All this talk about Negroni, reminds me of someone I knew before that fancy cocktail came into fashion; she used to drink gin and vermouth, with ice and lemon; ‘Gin and It’, she called it……I think it was mostly gin with not a lot of “It”. She was happy anyway.
You were speaking about convergent evolution. Well, I read somewhere that when our ape ancestors started eating fermented fruits on the forest floor, the benefits they got, the ethanol, nutrients, and anti-toxins, may have given them a critical survival advantage. As the various humanoid species evolved, so too does the evidence of beer and wine consumption. Convergent evolution tells us that this would not just be happening in Homo Sapiens societies, but also among other humanoid species. So I have this thought that there is a bunch of Cro-Magnon people, Neanderthals and Denisovans meeting somewhere in the Levant sitting around comparing each other’s hooch; that would be some party, eh!! “You ought to be careful drinking that stuff, it could drive you to extinction!”. But it would explain the transfer of DNA as they all got a little tanked up!
Anyway, bartender, you take it easy now, keep pouring the drinks😊👍😊
The Camparinette/Valentino is to the Negroni as XXX is to a Boulevardier? What is XXX? 60ml Bourbon, 15ml Campari, 15ml Italian Vermouth, stirred, cocktail glass, cherry. Does it have a name?
Richard, first of all let me thank you for the newsletter. Here at home we have started the habit of waiting for Friday for the end-of-work-week cocktail - it's been really fun to discover all of these and we really look forward to all the ones that will be coming up!
As for The Charlie Pie - this one was quite interesting. I am so accustomed to the Negroni that the first sip felt weird. Strange but familiar, with a different balance of flavours but still recognisable as a cousin of the Negroni. I like the extra presence of the gin, it works well. It still doesn't beat my favourite of the Negroni family, the Sbagliato - I love the bubliness of that one!
Now I'm off to enjoy the playlist - some great choices on this one, as usual!
Cheers!
Hi Bartender
How you doin’ this afternoon?
All this talk about Negroni, reminds me of someone I knew before that fancy cocktail came into fashion; she used to drink gin and vermouth, with ice and lemon; ‘Gin and It’, she called it……I think it was mostly gin with not a lot of “It”. She was happy anyway.
You were speaking about convergent evolution. Well, I read somewhere that when our ape ancestors started eating fermented fruits on the forest floor, the benefits they got, the ethanol, nutrients, and anti-toxins, may have given them a critical survival advantage. As the various humanoid species evolved, so too does the evidence of beer and wine consumption. Convergent evolution tells us that this would not just be happening in Homo Sapiens societies, but also among other humanoid species. So I have this thought that there is a bunch of Cro-Magnon people, Neanderthals and Denisovans meeting somewhere in the Levant sitting around comparing each other’s hooch; that would be some party, eh!! “You ought to be careful drinking that stuff, it could drive you to extinction!”. But it would explain the transfer of DNA as they all got a little tanked up!
Anyway, bartender, you take it easy now, keep pouring the drinks😊👍😊
The Camparinette/Valentino is to the Negroni as XXX is to a Boulevardier? What is XXX? 60ml Bourbon, 15ml Campari, 15ml Italian Vermouth, stirred, cocktail glass, cherry. Does it have a name?
http://barnotes.co/recipes/valentino-camparinette
Works especially well with Cocchi Rosa
For all Apple Music users out there - here is week 6's playlist:
https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/the-spirits-week-6/pl.u-e98lo8EhZWzD36