Back to beverages…
I’ll be busting out the French Gimlets at a family gathering next weekend. I have a couple of questions (now that I know my local store carries both of your main ingredients)
Why is Empress1908 blue?
What’s your ratio of 1908/St Germain?
I assume there’s a shaker of ice and a strainer involved?
You mentioned lime, you add a bit of juice to the shaker and then use it as a garnish?
What is your preferred glassware?
Good questions. I picked up my supplies earlier today.
I went by the neighborhood store just to look, buying stuff 9 days out is just too tempting.
So I bought a 6 pack of local beer instead.
Empress 1908 is infused with butterfly pea flowers, just one of the botanicals used, which gives it its signature indigo color.
The recipe I use is
2 oz gin
1 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur
1/2 oz lime juice.
I use a cocktail mixer and stir with ice. Strain up into a chilled cocktail glass. I like a Nick and Nora glass, but a martini glass or sour glass works fine too. I put the glass in the freezer while I mix up the cocktail. I don’t usually double strain, but if you’re worried about lime pulp or seeds, you’d want to do that.
A gimlet, of course, is just a typical lime sour: base spirit, lime juice, sweeter. If it’s made with tequila it’s a margarita, if it’s made with rum it’s a daiquiri, and if it’s made with gin it’s a gimlet. The “French” part is using the elderflower liqueur as the sweetener, and it’s plenty sweet to complement the lime.
You should moonlight as a bartender.
I keep thinking one day I’m gonna tell Big Oil to stick it and go tend bar in some smoky jazz club. We all have dreams.
As long as you change your name to Jackie Daytona
Why am I having deja vu all over again?
Hudson is OWA’s number one social influencer.
I can seeing you doing that.
You seem like a Regular Human Bartender
I’m waiting for the robo tenders.
The human element is critical. It takes feeling to mix a real cocktail.
I’d rather have a robot mix my cocktail than Tom Cruise.
No shit. If he were my bartender I’d punch him in the nuts.
I doubt you could bend down that far.
FYI, Twin Liquors is having one of their sales today.
In case you may need it for the games this weekend.
Or because of the games earlier this week.
Hangovers shouldn’t last that long.
Somebody tell the Astros.
