Kentucky Colonel

Sometimes I feel like all of my mixing and drinking cocktails has given me some kind of power to predict what a cocktail will taste like before it's mixed. That's part of my strategy for getting through undesired meetings (and worked well back in college too!). As I try to invent new cocktails, I imagine the taste combination. I could never have predicted the spicy, up front taste of the Kentucky Colonel.

from Dale deGroff's book:
Kentucky Colonel
2oz Bourbon
3/4 oz Benedictine (not B&B)
Dash Angostura Orange Bitters

Stir and serve either up in a cocktail glass or on the rocks in a whiskey glass.

This cocktail is delicious. If you've got set in your mind that "whiskey burns," then you are in for a surprise with this one. It doesn't burn even a little bit. I couldn't taste the orange bitters specifically until like the third sip, when the aroma of orange took over.

Put some color in your face,
Redface

It's Hop Season!

Spring is springing, with lots of rain and the occasional sun poking through the clouds... it is time to plant your hop rhizomes, good friends!

Mine are in containers so that I can attempt to move them with me to another region this summer, but most anywhere in the USA is ripe for planting in the ground about now as well... so get growing you green-thumbed growler-guzzlers!

Hoppily happy,
Mr. Beerd

Primary - Simcoe/Citra Hopbursted DIPA; Parti-gyle pt. 1 DIPA; Parti-gyle pt. 2 Weak English Bitter

Aging - Edwort's Organic Apfelwein; Witch's Brew Double Pumpkin Ale; Scotchadelica
On tap - Chilly FeBREWary Lager; Rastafar-Rye