Blended Grasshopper (Morgenthaler Method)

На самом деле, первоначально я не собирался выносить Blended Grasshopper by Jeffrey Morgenthaler отдельным постом, планируя просто упомянуть его в общем контексте как интересный riff, но … Но он оказался совершенно невероятной штукой, которая меня реально затянула :) [представьте себе чего только стоили поиски old-fashioned soda glass1, когда я оcознал, что без него фотосессия не получится]. Так что встречайте очередной шедевр Джефри Моргенталлера на ScienceOfDrink.com!

Я уже писал, что коктейль Кузнечик (Grasshopper) – это очень неплохой десертный коктейль, близкий к семейке Александеров, которых, согласитесь, ни у кого не шевельнется язык назвать плохим словом, разве что My Guilty Pleasure или My Favorite Little Sin 8) И он играет на одном из лучших десертных сочетаний мяты и шоколада, которое в сфере сладкого является натуральным connoisseurs choices. Т.е. уже практически Nec plus ultra!

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Однако мир сладостей, совершенно не ограничивается сливочными коктейлями, а следовательно дальнейшее одесертивание Grasshopper-а (вот буквально вплоть до того, что есть такой торт, – торт, карл!) представляется процессом совершенно естественным. В обыгрывании Кузнечика как десертного напитка особенно стали успешны жители Среднего Запада США, где широко популярна фишка заменять сливки в рецепте на ванильное мороженное и делать коктейль соответственно в блендере, что превращает Grasshopper в восхитительный милк-шейк.

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Two Manhattan Variations

Angostura bitter is hard available in the Ukraine. But Angostura bitter is essential ingredient of the famous Manhattan. Manhattan is truly magnificient cocktail. As Garry Regan wrote in they The Joy of Mixology Manhattan is King of Cocktail. Actually we can make acquaintance with Manhattan with help of two very interesting special variations.

The Special Manhattan Cocktail was found at the CocktailDB. It contain Campari Bitter instead Angostura.

The Special Manhattan Cocktail garnish with red maraschino cherry (Коктейль Манхэттен Особый, украшенный мараскиновой вишней)

Special Manhattan Cocktail

50 ml whiskey
25 ml sweet vermouth
7 ml Campari
Stir well with a lot of ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with cocktail cherry.

Actually a proper whiskey in Manhattan are american whiskeys like rye whiskey or bourbon, but you may substitute with canadian whisky with apropriate results.

I tasted several combinations with all of my canadian whisky – Canadian Club, Black Velvet and my favorite Crown Roal De Luxe. Also I use two of my sweet vermouths – Martini & Rossi Rosso and Cinzano Rosso. IMHO Martini Rosso vermouth is not great choice for both cocktails. The Cinzano works well in both.

The Special Manhattan Cocktail is great man’s drink. It is connoisseur’s choice. This cocktail is too similar to original Manhattan. It is strong bitter sweet and complex cocktail with aromatic profile. The bitternes of this two cocktails are so different.

Our next cocktail is Esquire Manhattan. This cocktail was created by D. Wondrich for Manhattan Experience Contest. This Manhattan contain Fernet-Branca instead of Angostura.

The Esquire Manhattan Cocktail (Коктейль Эсквайр Манхэттен)

Esquire Manhattan (Эсквайр Манхэттен)

50 ml bourbon
25 ml sweet vermouth
12 ml Fernet-Branca
Stir well with a lot of ice. Strain into chilled cocktail glass and add a orange twist.

Original recipe prescribe Woodford Reserve bourbon and Martini & Rossi sweet vermouth.

The Esquire Manhattan is great cocktail. It has strong bitter-sweet taste with great bourbon palate. The bitter finish are very interesting with a lot of herbal bitter notes of Fernet-Branca. It is great Manhattan expirience.

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Fernet Cocktail (revised)

About year ago one my friend presented me a bottle of NARDINI Fernet Amaro. I was intrigue by this black stylish bottle very much. Actually Italian amaro and fernet are one of my favorite local European beverage. Fernet is a strong type of amaro – herbal liqueur with bitter taste. Now I have two bottle of Fernet in my liquor cabinet – the weel-known Fernet Branca and NARDINI Fernet. The B.LO NARDINI Distilleria a Vapore is famous Italian manufacturer of grappa. This distillery is one of the oldest in Italia. This distillery also produce some kind of traditional Italian liquor – Amaro, Fernet etc. The NARDINI Fernet is very quality and interesting product thus I decide to teste it in Fernet Cocktail.

The very interesting recipe of the Fernet I found at the CocktailDB. The main interest of this recipe is possibility of variation the base spirit. Some time ago I tested the Fernet Cocktail in brandy version. Now I will taste this cocktail with cognac and rye whiskey. It is very interesting for me as I am big fernet fun.

The Fernet Cocktail in the dark (Коктейль Фернет во мраке)

Fernet Cocktail

35 ml cognac or rye whisky
35 ml fernet
1 dash Angostura bitters
2 dashes gum syrup
Stir. Strain into cocktail glass. Garnish with lemon zest.

The Fernet Cocktail with NARDINI Fernet and Hennessy VSOP Cognac is brilliant cocktail with deep bitter-sweet very smooth palate. It is excellent cocktail.

Hereafter I explore this cocktail with rye whiskey. Actually the Fernet cocktail with whiskey is so similar with Manhattan with fernet instead sweet vermouth. The sweetness add with sugar syrup.

The Fernet Cocktail with lemon twist (Коктейль Фернет, украшенный завитком кожуры лимона)

I try my authentic rye whiskey – WILD TURKEY Rye and it habitual substitute – canadian whisky (I use cheap Black Velvet). The cocktail with WILD TURKEY is great! The powerfull drink with compose palate of whiskey spicy taste and bitterness of fernet. The cocktail with canadian whisky is so unsophisticated predictably. But it is so interesting drink too. It has bitter-sweet herbal taste of fernet with spicy whisky notes in the finish. No so bad!

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