Wednesday, July 20, 2011

To come

being working hard in the drink lab and maybe by end of summer will have some fresh recipes.  But some hits with sparking grapefruit and St.Germain.  Also trying out sweet red vermouth in some of the receipes.  Working on some takes on Manhattans also so should have something to publish very soon.

Too long and I hate moonshine

This is going to be a little bit of a rant.  I have to say this new surge in interest about moonshine is stupid.  You can not go into a Bev Mo and buy moonshine.  By definition moonshine is illegally made spirits.  If you are buying it off the self at your local liquor store this is not moonshine.  Grain alcohol yes but not moonshine.  So this huge interest in moonshine is mostly about grain alcohol or more correctly term to be un-aged American whiskey, grain vodka, everclear and so on.  It is a stupid marking term to give people this feeling authenticity that is really not there.  So if someone offers you moonshine laugh take a sip and ask what still in there backyard produced such swill.