It’s back, time for more runs out into the world of cocktails. Today, I bring to you one that had me searching for ingredients, and two that break the standard rules of cocktails. The first is something that we’ve touched on before, but with a twist. A couple weeks back, a news story popped up in my newsfeed talking about the dangers of the Moscow Mule (you can tell it was a while back, because it wasn’t renamed). The concern was that if you’re drinking the cocktail out of a pure copper mug (not clad in stainless inside as most are), the acidity of the drink will leach copper into the drink, and you would consume it. In order to reach toxic levels, you would need to consume an extraordinary amount of warm drinks over a day.
Due to clicking on that link, my newsfeed was stuffed with articles, recipes, stories and the like about Moscow Mules for the next week. Among them, I learned of an interesting ingredient: Butterfly Pea Flowers. These flowers make a tea that has a mild flavor, is bright blue, and will change color when it comes in contact with an acid (purple to pink depending on the pH). With this in mind, you can make the tea, and then freeze it into ice cubes.
Then you build a drink (for this recipe they referred to it as the Galaxy Magic Mule):
Fill a clear glass (preferably double walled) about 2/3rds full with crushed clear ice. Top with crushed butterfly pea flower ice. Add juice of half a lime, add 2 ounces vodka, top with ginger beer. After that, gently stir, and top with more of the butterfly pea flower ice.
You can swap out the vodka for gin, or Irish whiskey, or pretty much anything that works well with ginger beer and lime.
To more traditional, but still no less shocking cocktails, we’ll move on to one that is surprisingly tasty even with the ingredients used
This drink takes Angostura bitters, and uses that as the base alcohol. Instead of a dash or two of bitters, this drink makes it the star. The base recipe is:
- 1.5 ounce Angostura bitters
- 0.5 ounce rye whiskey
- 0.75 ounce lemon juice
- 1 ounce orgeat
Take all of that, add to a shaker with ice, and shake until chilled and combined. Strain (if you want to be really fancy, you can double strain it) into a cocktail glass (or a Nick and Nora glass). Garnish with a lemon twist to complete the illusion of sophistication.
The lemon and the orgeat round out the bitters, and produce a very dark red, herbaceous drink. The hardest part in making it for me was getting the little plug out of the top of the bitters bottle to be able to pour out 1.5 ounces of bitters. I haven’t tested this with other bitter manufacturers, but would be very interested in hearing of others experiments with bitters as a base alcohol.
This next one popped up in my news feed around St. Patrick’s Day, and introduced me to a cocktail that makes Irish Whisky and Scotch play together well:
The base recipe for this is:
- 1 ounce Irish Whiskey (I tested this with Quiet Man)
- 1 ounce Scotch Whisky (I tested this with Laphroig, go big or go home for a rule breaking cocktail, right?)
- 0.5 ounce lemon juice
- 0.5 ounce orgeat
Take these ingredients, put them into a shaker filled with ice. Then shake until chilled and mixed, strain into a chilled cocktail glass.
The Laphroig came through still, but the drink as a whole played well together. When I make this in the future, I’ll try to have a blended scotch or more neutral one on hand to make this (such as Dewar’s or Glenlivet).
From a story I read, this drink was overlooked for many years, as the cocktail was first in print in 1922. However, it appears that there was a transcription error when it was added to the 1935 Mr. Boston Bartender’s Guide, where the orgeat got changed over to orange bitters, removing any sweetness from the drink at all. Mr. Boston didn’t correct the recipe for this drink until after the year 2000.
So I hope this encourages you to try something new this coming weekend. Based on conversations amongst some people chattering away on one of the Zoom meetings, it appears that there is also some interest in me putting together a piece on the history of Irish and Scotch whisk(e)y. If that interest holds up amongst you, the commentariat, I’ll see what I can find with some sources and do the history some justice.
That Trinidad Sour looks good.
I had a Moscow Mule or two one night out with some former coworkers. I could get to like them.
it appears that there is also some interest in me putting together a piece on the history of Irish and Scotch whisk(e)y. If that interest holds up amongst you, the commentariat, I’ll see what I can find with some sources and do the history some justice.
Yes.
I was very pleasantly surprised by the Trinidad Sour. I may attempt to order one if we hit up a good cocktail bar in Vegas.
When I get home, I may test it with some other bitters I’ve had sitting around for a while.
Sorry for the OT, but I had to share this bit of trivia I just discovered about jazz/rock fusion guitarist John Goodsall (Brand X and Atomic Rooster).
“ Goodsall also played on several film scores including No Small Affair, The Doorman, Can’t Buy Me Love, North Shore, Anal Intruder 9, Wave Warriors 2, Wave Warriors 3, and Point Break.”
I wondered why I enjoyed that soundtrack so much.
“On a Wave of Constipation…”
I’m out of bitters and so is Kroger’s, and my amazon order is stuck in Twinsburg. Guess it’s straight whisky tonight.
If you had planned ahead, you could have started making your own.
If I had planned ahead I wouldn’t have run out.
It’s hard to imagine you running out of bitter.
lol-zing
touché
Lol
Looks like we are done for tonight.
LOL the feds are putting out “long covid” propaganda now.
I REALLY need to cut the cord.
Their credibility is gone.
At first it was just NYS which wasn’t surprising because they’re also still pushing the violently disgusting “kids want to be vaccine heroes” propaganda bit (saw that one tonight) in addition to their “long covid” horseshit I first saw a couple days ago.
Kind of surprised to see the feds join in.
Desperation
A large portion of the country has now tuned them out and will never listen to them again. That’s got to sting their fragile egos.
Unfortunately, the asshole politicians (pardon, I repeat myself) of Philly have reinstituted the indoor mask mandate because there are 44 people hospitalized with Chicomvirus out of a population of more than 1 million.
I assume Randi Weingarten is somehow involved.
Last I glanced at a commercial they were still running the “Stay at home! Cower in fear!” campaign on the teevee.
I do enjoy a good Moscow Mule but the ginger better burn when I drink it, otherwise it’s just sweetened vodka.
I found out a couple of weeks ago that Gosling’s makes a Diet Ginger Beer that burns as good as Reed’s Extra but without the sugar or the calorie hit.
I’ll have to look it up. Thanks!
Yup. Gosling’s diet (and regular) have a decent bite.
The girlfriend tried the ginger beer I prefer to purchase once.
Only once…
Hey Mustang. I gave you very belated response to your question about stress last night. Don’t know if you saw it.
Sort of on topic, who brews Trader Joe’s Stockard Oatmeal Stout? I tried it again. It was quite good especially for the price.
Quite a few of the contract brews for Trader Joe’s have been said to have been brewed by Gordon Biersch. The Belgian style ones have usually been traced back to Unibroue (the cage and cork on the bottles are a dead giveaway).
Thanks Neph.
I wonder if Campari would substitute for the bitters
Campari, while bitter, doesn’t have the punch of Angostura, nor the ABV. But you could make a very nice Negroni, or you could use the Liquor.com What the #$@! Do I Do with This? section for those random spirits.
That fucking dementia patient is issuing regulations to require background checks and serialization of uppers now. And requiring dealers to maintain records indefinitely and turn them over to the ATF when they close up shop. No more twenty year sunset.
How the fuck does a final rule get issued without public comment or notice of proposed rule making?
Starts with “F”. . .
Buckle down, comrade, we’re entering a Brave New World where “The Rules are what We say they are”. They’re not even pretending anymore.
” No more twenty year sunset.” Maybe the records are maintained indefinitely, but I hear there is quite a danger of boating accidents around sunset.
As if the jackboots would accept that as a valid excuse rather than admission of felonious failing to report a transfer (to the bottom of a body of water).
I suspect the lawsuits will be filed soon.
If I were to take a stab they will fall back on the ’emergency rule making’ like they tried with COVID
Welp, I just ran across ‘The Accountant’ starting.
There goes the next couple of hours.
Ben Affleck is dreamy.
An autistic Ben Affleck killing the fuck out of people who need killing is pretty great. Oddly.
If you like that, you may also like Nobody.
Ah, yes. Saw the Drinker’s review, need to watch that.
Was it you, Chafed, who said he knows the big bearded guy who plays one of the thugs that show up at the farm?
Sadly, no. I have had very few brushes with fame. But if you are interested I can tell you about using a restaurant mens room at the same time as Mark Gastineau or seeing Paul Giamatti in the MOMA cafeteria.
I’m surprised Giamatti had his cock out in the cafeteria! Or am I misunderstanding this story?
(Gastineau lived near me when I was growing up, along with a variety of Islanders as well)
Two different stories, at two different times, in two different places.
I thought of this Accountant
Huh, new to me.
Fichtner is just great.
I don’t think I’ve seen the whole movie, just his scenes in it.
Just filed my taxes. Pleasantly surprises that I am not cutting a big check the feds this year, but the state got me for some reason. Usually it’s the other way around.
The planets failed yesterday to cause sailors grief. The racing went well with no untoward incidents.
Sounds like you didn’t science hard enough! Or something.
I just discovered that I made a bonehead error on my Schedule E when I didn’t copy one line from the spreadsheet to the form. I am still fighting over a minor mistake that I made in 2019.
I’m stuck in (self-inflicted) Amended Return hell.
That was supposed to be a reply to kinnath.
Also, NM just repealed the income tax on Social Security earnings saving me close to $2k per year from now on out.
You should fire your accountant.
Damn it feels good to be a Firster.
So Gustave asked about rulemaking. ATF had this out for public comment since May of 2021. Such is the Levithan and a willing press to not report, it is what it is.
https://www.regulations.gov/document/ATF-2021-0001-0001
Today’s rule: https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/rulemaking/final-rule-2021r-05f-definition-frame-or-receiver-and-identification/download
What I want to know, and the site doesn’t say, is the resolution of those comments. However, only 250k people engaged in commenting and given the process is the punishment, I don’t blame most not commenting.
Which makes me wonder, why aren’t there watchdogs or say an association that is scouring the Federal Register and public comment period of these and getting it out to their members? Or do they?
Oh answered my own question
I am sorry, but if even one comment is received on a proposed regulation, there should be a hearing and that person allowed to speak to the whole body.
The rule making is mostly bullshit. The agencies are not actually interested in comments or feedback, but implementing whatever policy they’ve decided upon. The comments only real purpose is to provide a possible foundation for suing to overturn a regulation because the agency failed to explain away a contention.
100% agreed. In an age where people want internet voting and start up change.org petitions ignore rule making comments. The story would be different if it were 6 million comments, either for or against.
Tell me about it. In a blind-screaming panic LANL put up guard gates on the main roads passing by the facility after 9/11. When there was grumbling from the locals the DOE promised a review with public comments. Several alternatives were offered up by the locals including one from the local paper that had maps and diagrams.
It went something like this:
DOE: “This is what we are doing.”
Concerned Citizens: “Have you looked at any of the alternatives? Some are pretty good and don’t require destroying one of the busiest intersections in town.”
DOE: “This is what we are doing. Any more questions?”
CC: “What about. ..”
DOE; “No. If there are no further questions then we will adjourn.”
Yes, the 1968 GCA lifted gun control regulations. ?♂️
The Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 repealed the FFA, replacing it with the GCA.
Wait, so I don’t need to buy a tax stamp for a suppressor or sbr?
Aint living in a bureaucracy grand?
https://archive.ph/JxvvR/f72b734dc14a1f7deb5f4be9ae82d551e22f8fce.webp
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/zb3s2/4508dd1f3c3a902d60ecbbccbdb780b6aa40007c.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.ph/6jOuo/e2455e613039f936b4372fdd68852890db96566d.webp
NSFW.
3 is a magic number.
This song is wrong on so many levels. It is so deeply offensive to me.
Maybe you should skip right along to 5.
Pull the pin first, though.
Dude! https://youtu.be/np0YIaHv6LQ
I am pretty sure this is the nexus of my affinity for a snaggle tooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wBDDAZkNtk
+ summer teeth
Dont you disparage my Jewel. You shut your whore mouth Tres.
That jagged chiclet of hers will likely give you a 2nd circumcision.
If she saves my soul and doesn’t play foolish games…who am I to complain.
Folk music is crap and died with Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Im not sure how it happened, but that shitty “Puff the Magic Dragon” song led me to this.
The Folksmen! ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3J-_fAavm4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGN5Va7Cn-k
Harry Shearer has done his best work on The SImpsons
I have always been fond of that tune and she is “normal pretty”. Fuck you, Baby-Head!
I’m not winning today. 🙁
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Well that was kind of cool.
Thanks Sean- I needed another distraction.
Too early for quordle.
Instead… eazy-peazy.
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
Worldle is a repeat from last week.
Meh. Wasn’t playing it yet.
I wouldn’t be so sure. Did you see yesterday’s scores? These people stink on ice, anythings possible.
Hey it’s just ’cause I didn’t want to use the word “queer”.
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At least my score doesn’t start with a number in the hundreds spot.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8844kApStjg
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Morning y’all.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
I was just in the kitchen and thinking about Lucinda Williams.
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Thought experiment- Lucinda stole the premise for that song from Bobby Gentry. Discuss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv33eaygVDQ
https://whyy.org/articles/philly-man-accused-3d-printer-ghost-guns/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7q2bNqe0Xyk
Kicking off the day with this one.
I need a nap.
Morning, Glibs.
Morning UnC, and Tres, Sean, and Rhy.
Howsitgoin?
Great! Slow morning, and a free doughnut. After we all ate, the kid that bought them showed us the store’s health inspection score. It was 57.
Good morning, U, Tres, Sean, TARDy, rhy, and Ted’S!
I overslept this morning – not enough to risk being late to work, but enough to cut into my morning Glibbie time. ? Note to self: Do NOT tell yourself you’re going to lie in bed for “just a minute” when you turned the alarm off instead of hitting the snooze!
“Just A Minute” is risky enough on telecommute days.
The good news is that I got payroll submitted AND approved yesterday, and there’s usually very little mail on Tuesday, so I won’t have much by way of “gotta-do’s” unless my boss wants me to proofread his monthly memo to the Board.
That reminds me, I’m only up to page 21 of reviewing edits.
I disagree on a lot of commas.
I admit – this did have me wishing I could refresh my memory on all the rules for same. Do you have a preferred guide/reference we could consult for a “final ruling”?
nope. It’s just “does the sentence sound right with those pauses?” and “are the clauses properly separated?”
Commas.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVyBRdBVCiU
Mornin’, GT and all you wonderful reprobates. Nothing wrong with a little extra beauty rest. Not that you need it.
Good save! ? Good morning, ‘patzie!
What in the hell is going on with the covidism I see popping up again? Ukraine didn’t take?
We are at war with
EastasiaCovid. We have always been at war with Covid.The easily manipulated are going to be the death of us all, they’ll always buy into the latest thing whatever that may be.
Sigh… can’t those folk go back to wearing oversized JNCO pants, or swooning over flash-in-the-pan pop stars, or doing 30 second dance videos for Chinese spymasters? I can happily disregard all of their usual fads, but war and plague lockdowns impact me as well and that is a bridge too far.
Back in the ‘90s/early 2000s I used to lament the fact that so many Americans were politically ignorant and uninvolved but now I yearn for those days. I’m with you, please bring back the frivolous stuff.
The nineties are looking like a golden age we might not see again in our lifetimes.
Neph, the tiki bar down the street uses those pea flowers to craft some of their fancy cocktails. They also have ‘tiki’ bitters that are very flowery and aromatic. I love a Moscow Mule and as humans have been using copper as food surfaces for 1000s of years, I think the fears of leaching are overblown.
Y’all ready for more ethanol in your gas and even higher corn product prices?
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/biden-infuriates-environmentalists-and-oil-refiners-allowing-more-ethanol-gas
You aren’t? Well tough shit, that’s what you’re getting.
Who doesn’t love schlepping down to the marina to fill up the lawn mower and string trimmers on the last remaining source of real gas in the area.
He’ll find the right placement of the knobs and the levers this time for sure.
Stop it with these repeating letters in words already!
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Never thought I would see democratic underground pro war.
Morning everyone.
Telling the truth has consequences.
https://www.nj.com/hudson/2022/04/jersey-city-teacher-suspended-after-profane-tirade-aimed-at-black-students.html
“Your neighborhood is filled with violence. Who is perpetrating the violence? Black on Black,” the teacher told the students. “The whites aren’t coming here shooting you all down. Are they? Are they? How many white people came and shot you today?”
Fernandez said Monday she is “appalled at the comments made by the individual in that recording. Parts of the message may have been well intended. However, the language that was used and the references that were made did not really portray a positive message.”
Possible the teacher was black? The article does not provide any details.
From the phrasing of the select few snippets quoted, it does not sound like the teacher was white.
From the fact that it’s not being paraded as the headline fact of the article, I know the teacher wasn’t white.
Reading between the lines, it sounds more like the teacher was fed up at the students living down the the stereotypes.
Was it the profanity or the stereotyping? If the kids were up to date on their rap music maybe they wouldn’t have noticed
/Stereotyping with no real knowledge of rap
If that was a white teacher it would be international headlines and a name and picture would have been provided.
Correct. This is how we know the teacher wasn’t white.
Morning All,
Grassley had an orgasm over the ethanol news. Wasting ethanol when it it has better uses. The corn could be put to better use as well.
I accidentally put in premium yesterday, didn’t pay attention. I will from now on. Lessons learned, the economics way.
Mornin’, 4×20. 15% ethanol? That should do wonders for hoses and other assorted engine components.
Mornin’ fellow Glibbies! Can’t hang around, gotta get sleep for the next Dr’s appointment today. There wont be any answers, just referrals to specialists. Maybe we’ll find something out in six months or so. Might have to start Quordling. Perhaps it’ll give me a reason to get up of a morn. Hope that you have a great one!
“Might have to start Quordling.”
Finally, some competition for my ineptitude! Hope all goes well, Festy.
On topic: Roll your lemons/limes before juicing.
But won’t the bottle fall off the counter then?
You sick bastard…
Gah! Who doesn’t know that one cool trick?
I’ll bet that the morons have never even heard of a zester.
Will this microplaner work?
Microplanner? Sounds techie and stuff
People who typically use bottled juice?
🙁
It is literally easier for me to order guns & ammo through the internet than ordering contact lenses.
It shouldn’t be this hard to try to save a couple bucks.
I save on contact lenses by wearing glasses.
https://www.nj.com/passaic-county/2022/04/nj-man-sues-dunkin-over-hot-coffee-spill-says-he-suffered-serious-burns.html
“”Evan Arlington suffered second and third-degree burns when the coffee fell into his lap,” states the lawsuit, filed April 4 in Superior Court of Passaic County.”
This sounds familiar…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald%27s_Restaurants
Nothing new under the sun.
Put me on that jury.
“The jury awards the plaintiff one container of balm.”
So the clod’s carelessness causes discomfort to himself and he sues DD? WTF is up with that?
I should have sued Gaia, the TV weather man, etc last year when the grass was slippery
Alright, here’s some contrary shit for y’all – Liebeck vs. McDonalds was correctly decided, and was a huge win for McDonalds overall. Come at be, bro!
Instead of bluster over a lawsuit none of us were a party to, I ask what led you to that conclusion?
I paid it so little attention that I have no real opinion on the suit.
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Whelp…it’s gonna be that kind of day…
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