Archive for the ‘bianco’ Category

Rummy Ruminations – and the El Presidente Revisited

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

The new issue of Drink is out. The theme for this issue is rum, well known as one of my favorite topics. Fittingly, I got to write not one, but two articles. . . (more…)

Posted in bianco, Cocktails and Giggle Water, Cuban, curacao, Drink history, rum | 5 Comments »

Three Pisco and Galliano Cocktails

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I did a search on CocktailDB for pisco cocktails. Besides the well known pisco drinks, namely the pisco sour and the pisco punch, CocktailDB had just three other drinks to offer. CocktailDB is normally a good way to find a list of drinks using obscure ingredients, but when it comes to pisco it does not have much.

 

The peculiar thing was that all three of these pisco drinks from CocktailDB also included Galliano. Very strange indeed. I am guessing that these three drinks all come from the same source, maybe a promotional cocktail booklet published for some South American market by Galliano, or perhaps they were winning entries in some competition or other. (more…)

Posted in aromatic bitters, bianco, cocktail bitters, Cointreau (triple sec), Exploring tastes, Galliano, grapefruit, lime, pisco, Recipes, Scotch (blended), Tuaca, vermouth, whiskey/whisky | 4 Comments »