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I wrote this drink on a Friday night during service. Served it as Drink Of The Day on Saturday 6/28. Had some mangos that needed to be used. Decided to try my hand at cheong. Cut up 2 red mangos, 1 golden mango, and one small lime, then added them to a kitchen container. Put…

A place for celebrating bars and bartenders I love. Field Trip – Leyenda This drink changed me. I discovered it long before I was a bartender. For my 25th birthday, my best friend and I took a trip to New York. We stayed on Smith and Schermerhorn in Brooklyn. Not only did we find Luanne’s…

I will be using this post continuously as a public digital legal pad list of flavor combination and drink spec ideas. Please leave a reply if you have any ideas! I love to find new combinations of flavors and tasting notes. Dear Diary… 5.28 I am loving perfume note charts as vision boards for drinks.…

True Life: I am obsessed with Italicus. I am well aware that every drink I have posted here so far contains it. This is called Lisa’s garden because the lemon thyme came from the garden of my partner’s mother whose name is Lisa. She has a sweet garden! If nobody likes egg white cocktails I…

The customers in Meridian seem to go hard for Idaho. They like local stuff. I came up with this riff based on a Bee’s Knees. It uses Idaho gin and local honey. 1.5oz Red Fern Gin 0.5oz Italicus 1oz lemon juice 1oz honey syrup (1:1) egg white lemon twist honeycomb Add wet ingredients to a…

This is a riff on the Giny Germain, a cocktail that was created by bartender Antoine Goldschmid of Poulette Restaurant. I learned about it from The Educated Barfly. 1.5oz Hendrick’s Gin 0.75oz St. Germain 0.75oz Italicus 1oz lemon juice 0.5oz simple syrup (1:1) egg white 3 cucumber slices Peychaud’s bitters Add all ingredients to a shaker. Muddle cucumber.…