Now Watching: The House Of The Devil

I'm so sick of hearing

about that stupid eclipse.

It's, like, all anybody

can ever talk about.

They're like, "Oh, gosh.

"Are you gonna go see

the eclipse tonight? Buh."

-Megan

The Unnamed Blood Moon Cocktail is mighty fine.  Very overcast here with some rain in the forecast, so I'll wait for the next Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse.

Fridays, Man

Kicking off the weekend with a [bourbon] Black Manhattan (my rye whiskey mysteriously disappeared).

2 ounces (4 tablespoons) bourbon or rye whiskey

1 ounce (2 tablespoons) Italian amaro, like Averna

1 dash Angostura bitters

1 dash orange bitters

For the garnish: Cocktail cherry or Luxardo cherry

Passover Cocktails For Each Of The Ten Plagues

This seems like a really neat goal:  Commit to making every single one of these Plague Cocktails.  

Here are some of the more interesting ones...

Plague 1: Blood

Cocktail: Red Nile

Ingredients:

2 oz potato vodka

4 oz tomato juice

1/2 oz lemon juice

1 oz Arak

1 tsp white horseradish

6 drops Texas Pete

3 drops Fee Brothers Old Fashioned Cocktail Bitters (no corn syrup)

Dash salt

Dash pepper

Carrot stick for garnish

Plague 2: Frogs

Cocktail: Paris in April

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz Cognac

1 oz green Chartreuse

1/2 oz Grand Marnier

4 oz Perrier

Plague 4: Beasts

Cocktail: Zion King

Ingredients:

1 1/2 oz fig brandy

1 1/2 oz non-grain spirits gin

2 oz fresh squeezed orange juice

3/4 oz Chambord

Plague 8: Locusts

Cocktail: Desert Swarm

Ingredients:

2 oz white rum

1 oz non-grain spirits gin

1 oz RW Knudsen Organic Pear Juice

1/2 oz fresh lemon juice

1/2 oz fresh egg white

1/2 oz Domino Organic Blue Agave Syrup

2 dashes Fee Brothers Orange Bitters (no corn syrup)

Club soda (preferably fresh-made SodaStream)

Fresh parsley for garnish

Plague 10: Slaying of the first born

Cocktail: Pharaoh’s Lament

Ingredients:

4 1/2 oz very dry sparkling wine

1 oz absinthe

2 dashes Fee Brothers Orange Bitters

Lemon wedge

Kosher salt

Thanks, Wren!  

My mini-bar won't know what's happening.

Click here for the rest of the Plague Cocktails.

My First Booze Review: Rot's Spirit Tales

Lies. All lies.

Found the below review for the Corpse Flower brandy I featured earlier this week.

Boy, am I glad I didn't pull the trigger on that purchase.

Click below (this guy is a riot)...