Posted on 03/25/2022 5:07:49 PM PDT by mylife
Though it’s recently become trendy, cocktails like the old fashioned, martini and daiquiri have been classics for a long time. These cocktails come with specific flavor expectations. An old fashioned, for example, is expected to have smoky flavor notes with a sweet finish from the sugar at the bottom, and sours are, well, you get it from the name.
A few bars in Charleston use the flavor profiles of these tried and true cocktails as inspiration for creating their menus, but use local ingredients or flavored spirits to put their own twists on the classics. What follows are a few of our favorites. And note, the capitalizing of drink names is fraught with peril. If a drink is unique to the establishment, we’re capitalizing. But we’ll leave classics like ‘daiquiri’ lowercase.
Those caught up in the espresso martini craze will be pleased to know that Dalila’s serves an espresso old fashioned, dubbed “Lola’s Nightcap,” which features cold brew espresso, Kahlua, Italian amaro, toasted coconut and pecan-infused Jamaican rum.
For those attempting to make their own riff on a classic cocktail at home, Whiteley has some advice:
“Start slow with it, don’t try to rearrange the whole drink. Swap out one part at a time. If you were doing an old fashioned, swap out the syrup for a sweet liqueur or different syrup. Swap the whiskey out for rum or do a split base of both.”
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Shot of “red eye” and a beer chaser.
How can an old fashioned not have bourbon?
This is the equivalent of a black female James Bond.
I'm both shaken and stirred by this abuse of alcohol.
The farthest I’ll stray from the classics is having Rye in my Old Fashioned.
I bought it on a lark, but it turns out it is quite good and has more sweet bourbon-like notes than most other ryes I've tried.
Thanks. Been drinking Whistlepig for a couple of years and am looking for something new.
I’ll take a nice Scotch, no need to add anything.
no ice?
I like mine neat.
There is a very mutated joke about a well off psychiatrist who, after work, went to his favorite bar to have a strange drink that he had found while working in the Caribbean and Hawaii, the Muddy Macadamia Mulata (coffee) Daiquiri. He paid a premium price for it and was a big tipper of both the bartender and the waitresses, so he was a favorite customer.
Until, to his horror, the bartender realized that he was out of not just one, but two, essential ingredients. In a panic, he dashed out but to no avail, he could only get substitute ingredients.
The psychiatrist tried to be tactful, but his drink tasted way too different. So he asked, this isn’t my Muddy Macadamia Mulata (coffee) Daiquiri, is it?
The bartender fessed up. “No, sir, its a Hickory Chicory Daiquiri, Doc.”
LOL!
Lola’s Nightcap sounds good.
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