Still trying to finish off a bottle of dry vermouth. First I made a Scofflaw, I used specs from Anders Erickson. I didn't take notes on this one - do not ask me why for I will never understand how my brain works - but I remember liking it.
I also made a Rosita. To explain my initial reaction to this cocktail I first have to go back about....thirty five years??? More? Anyway. There was a restaurant in Baltimore called Gampy's, stood for Great American Melting Pot. I loved that spot. I loved the servers that would walk through the restaurant calling out a warning every other step "HOT OIL!" "HOT!" "OIL!" "HOT OIL!".
They also had this one frozen drink, I don't recall what it was called, but there was something about its overwhelming banananess that elicited the same reaction from everyone who tried it. It went something like this:
::sip::
BANANA!
::hands to next person to try::
::sip::
BANANA!
And so on.
And that is what happened with this Rosita cocktail. One sip and I was all "TEQUILA!". It was VERY tequila forward. I am not a huge tequila drinker but I will keep this one in my back pocket for when I want something other than a marg or Paloma.
Probably one more week of dry vermouth and then I am moving into Suze week.
- Physical - It's The End of the World as We Know It, edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene
- Audio - The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
- eBook - China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
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