Monday, July 27, 2009

Hartford Leaders Annuity

Gin Basil Smash


champagne cocktails? Yes they really exist and had been a long time. Some bartenders really came up with the idea of the best known, most expensive to install all sparkling wines in mixed drinks. Although Champagne is perfect in itself, but it was just not necessary with other ingredients to be changed in taste.
But it was already going on with sugar cubes and Aromatic Bitters and up to the Seelbach cocktail and French 75, it was no longer far away. As a Smash is infuse with champagne not so far-fetched as you might think, rather decadent one might suspect.
It does taste, visual and yet easy Trendy.

Here is the recipe:

2 oz Tanqueray Ten Gin (still, a quality gin)
1 cl fresh lime juice
0,75 cl cane sugar syrup
7-8 leaf basil
champagne

approach: the same as in normal Gin Basil Smash, muddle, Shake and fine strain, diesmall into a chilled champagne goblet. So then poured with champagne (Veuve Cliquot in the fall) and a basil leaf as garnish, where the glass.
And voila, Gin Basil Smash Royal
(The times you have to imagine with red basil)

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

How Long Does It Take To Rent A Tux

Royal Blue Monday

We have the Watt's company very often a guest to the conference dinner or to celebrate. The newest Trend in celebrations is apparently that the company wants to have a cocktail in the colors of the logo.
Wonderful, in the big wide world of syrups and liqueurs should be so can always find something.
A month ago, then the desire to "blue, alcohol-free!" for the reception - very nice to drop off all liquors and syrups give all blue with more green juice. In the end I chose a lemonade-variant with Blue Curacao syrup, lemon juice, vanilla syrup, fresh mint and soda. The other color of the logo was the way Orange - would have been much more feasible.

Well now we had on Monday the next Firm to a guest who wanted to have their own cocktail. "Blue and white" (no we not speak of Bavaria), at least with alcohol, so no problem to find something that fits the requirements. In Difford's Guide # 8 scrolls and already found the cocktail Blue Monday - blue and the name first, if the company on Monday there. Then simply still beat together the cream layered above it, like the White Russian and already had a beautiful signature drink for the 10 year-olds, true to the motto "Only the cocktail is blue, then the guest."

Blue Monday Special
4 cl Vodka 2 cl Bols Blue
Curacao 1 cl Cointreau
1 cl Noilly Prat
2 Dashes Orange Bitters
Glass: Tumbler
Shaked and Strain
chipped cream layered

In another celebration of the same company where the website launch was celebrated, offered the Cocktailcaterer you the HWA on Web with the following contents: Vodka, Bols Blue Curacao, coconut syrup, cream, orange juice, pineapple juice
reminds me strongly of the swimming pool. So you can make it stop, but nasty to say then that the cocktail was created especially for the company and the event.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Oteoporosis Of The Neck

I'd like to ...!

In the previous post I had the last weekend together somewhat in focus. As I have mentioned also, that not everyone is a Gin Basil Smash ordered because it was too foreign to many, is not it at the moment is not the right one. And you must be honest that the recommendation which we or did you do this evening so good, left, creative, or just may be brilliant, it is only a recommendation. Many have known for a long time what you want to drink them when they leave home or enter the bar. "I'd like a beer"

"very small like 0.3 or 0.4 Great?"
"Little of what they have for beer?"
"The range of Höpfner."
"Ah, very nice."
Honestly, the Lord knew at the time the brewery Hoepfner not in the least, but knew what he wanted. For what you want you can get at us, if I can do it from the ingredients and the like (eg something with fresh fruit only if they are in season, in winter never a Strawberry Margarita).
But (now is), what if the guests order drinks, so not really exist:
"A Caipirinha" (which I would like to be the same or other Höpflichkeitsflosken omitted)
"a caipirinha, but like" will be very happy to
oddly enough also converted but reiterates the cocktail with all your names, one wants to be sure whether the Caipirinha is really meant, and not anything else that shortens the guest happy as Caipi could, indeed all be possible.
Because we order our steak and not with the sentence:
"A Rump please!"
or
"A Swiss!" What the
please, my question was recently the waiter that a Swiss sausage salad or a Swiss Tarte. You should contact the matters mentioned in all their real names, because I think they deserve it, especially names of drinks or foods that have a translation, as in the Caipirinha "the woman" or the Pina Colada "sieved pineapple.
Even if we order one of the absolute standards, but we should try something more accurately, as "a martini" can be more than just the wormwood. Nevertheless, it is also at the service as more and ask, is because it would make no errors or cancellations.
But in conclusion I would like to promote the ordered to name and that the whole, to make everything easier and the court or to pay homage Inked.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Sympathy Quotes In Songs

Gin Basil Smash weekend

So here views an image of the Watt's cocktail bar on fürhen evening and still some small coverage of the weekend:

the bad news to the beginning, I have my fruit dealer, unfortunately, but no red Basil received and therefore could only offer the classic version in green.

offer the largest foreign popula problem is continue anyway, the most of our guests are still out range of cocktails of this kind must be true to the saying "What does not the farmer, he does not eat!" Who hears ingredients that he does not know or can not imagine in a beverage is skeptical. Some then trust the bartender, because he has so far not disappointed. Others do, but internally it can not order something else or just simply wanted a Pina Colada or the like. And if someone wants a non-alcoholic cocktail order because he or she still has to go it works with the recommendation not quite.

to it he was on a board at the Bar was written and oral dargepriesen with enthusiasm, and I did not on the second day at some moments all the time. But could try on Saturday then something new:

The Gin Basil Smash with champagne cocktail version: the ratio less was put into a champagne glass and then cost and trendy infused with Prosecco, which is of course Champagne or Crémant could take what would be much more attractive, but also more expensive, will shortly be submitted later a prescription.

summary, I am satisfied so far with the weekend and the action was ultimately cocktail as often on the counter than many others.

What you could write about? Of course, the recipe that I use:

6 cl Gin (Tanqueray Ten, a quality gin some would say in Hamburg, in Ettlingen they do not know him so well)
3 cl fresh lime juice 2 oz sugar syrup
( white cane sugar syrup, if anyone asks from the lab)
2-3 stalks basil
Procedure: lime juice and sugar syrup is poured into the glass part of the Shakers and Boston, where the basil. Then, the basil is pushed well / gemuddelt or simply smashed, hence the name. Then we give more to the gin, ice and Shaked the whole thing for 10 seconds. Man seiht then a tea strainer into a chilled Tumblerglas off with fresh ice cubes and add a little basil, a head or two or three leaves with the glass, thus, the smell in the nose.

The original recipe Smashes lemon juice is used to get the gemuddelt to be in the form of lemon wedges with the herbs and the syrup to the juice. Since each of lemon, lime juice always has a different proportion is the squeeze with lime pliers true indeed in the safest way to balance.





Monday, July 6, 2009

Swedish Female Wrestler

Red Basil Smash

The red-leaved basil variety "Opal" is ordered, So then:
practice on the first anniversary of the Gin Smash Bitters on the blog there on Friday and Saturday (10/11.07.2009) the exclusive Red Gin Basil Smash in the Watt's cocktail!
past worth making, even to eat, why are the still the address:
Watt's Brasserie & Cocktail Bar
Pforzheimer Straße 67 76275 Ettlingen

07243-7142000

It is of course of the talk this weekend!