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    My Mixology
    My Mixology
    My Mixology
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    My Mixology

    By Martin Kimeldorf

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    My Mixology bridges between the uncomplicated, optimistic cocktails of the 1950s and the gourmet craft drinks emerging in the 21st century. You will find inventive, delicious, and easy-to-build cocktails like the Black Gold Bloody Mary, Mocha Kahlua Irish Whiskey, Wild Cherry Bourbon, Ginger Shandy Cocktail. An entire chapter is devoted to mixing tasty, savory martinis. This book also includes many new takes on old standards. The pages brim with artful photographs. Between sips enjoy the tasty quotes included to inspire thinkin’ while drinkin’. Bottoms up.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMartin Kimeldorf
    Release dateAug 17, 2016
    ISBN9781533786975
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      My Mixology - Martin Kimeldorf

      Table of Libations

      (A summary of the specific cocktails)

      INTRODUCING MY MIXATIONS

      1–MK’S LIME CORDIAL RECIPE

      2–DRUNKEN COCKTAIL FRUIT

      3–MOCHA-BOURBON-CHOCOLATE SAUCE

      4–VODAK AND GIN GIMLETS

      THE JUDY-FAY GIN GIMLET

      SOPHISTICAT’S VODKA GIMLET

      LJ'S SPECIAL VODKA GIMLET

      HOUDINI’S VODKA GIMLET

      MARTIN’S SAINT GERMAINE GIN GIMLET

      CRANBERRY GIMLET GLIMMER

      VODKA LIMERICK CORDIAL SODAS

      5–WHISKEY, RYE, BOURBON, SCOTCH

      MARTIN’S WILD CHERRY-BOURBON RIDE

      MOCHA KAHLUA IRISH WHISKEY COLA

      BOBBY BURNS COCKTAIL

      BOURBON DYNASTY

      GOLD CREEK’S RUSTY SPIKE

      TUMWATER’S BLINKER COCKTAIL

      CANADIAN WHISKEY CHERRY COCKTAIL, EH?

      SUNSHINE SCOTCH

      MARBON

      PRESCRIPTION SCOTCH TEA

      PENICILLIN COCKTAIL AL LA TUMWATER

      THE CHEMO-SCOTCH COCKTAIL

      THE SAINT PAMPLEMOUSSE GIFT

      ORANGE OLD FASHIONED

      WHISKEY INDEPENDENCE

      6–THE ART OF THE EXCEPTIONAL MARTINI

      MARTIN’S DIRTY TUMWATER MARTINI

      LEMON PAMPLEMOUSSE MARTINI

      JAVATINI—FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH POTION

      CRAZY JUNIPER JUMPSHOT

      FRENCH REVERSE MARTINI

      GOLDIE HAWN BLONDE MARTINI

      7–ODD FELLOWS AND GALS

      WIDOWER'S HUG

      CHOCOLATE MARTINI BLISS

      BLUE MOON MARTINI

      CHARTREUSE BEGINS AS A TOAST TO HEALTH

      CHARTREUSE ON THE ROCKS

      THE VERY LAST WORD CHARTREUSE COCKTAIL

      THE CHARTREUSE COURTESAN

      TUMWATER CHARTREUSE RESEARCH COCKTAIL

      THE SPRINGTIME AWAKENING

      BLACK GOLD BLOODY MARY

      THE GOLD CREEK SIPPER

      CO2 COCKTAIL PUNCH

      8–POLITICALLY UNCORRECTED DRINKS

      OBAMATINI

      BEATING AROUND THE BUSH (AKA DUBYA DOWNER)

      FEEL THE BERN CHAMPAIGN COCKTAIL

      TRUMP CHUMP COCKTAIL

      9–SUMMER TIME DRINKS

      SMOOTH AND SMOKEY TEQUILA COCKTAIL

      MULE DRINKS

      PEACHY SUMMER TALE

      SUMMER APERTIF-DIGESTIF COCKTAIL

      MARTA-RITA

      MARTIN’S LIME RUM MOJITO

      SOCRATES’ WHISKEY-CHOCOLATE-COFFEE FLOAT

      CHARTREUSE TONIC COOLER

      FRENCH BEES KNEES COCKTAIL

      SUNSHINE-ADE COCKTAIL

      THE GINGER SHANDY COCKTAIL

      SUMMER’S TANGY ROSE COCKTAIL

      WARM WEATHER PAMPLEMOUSSE COCKTAIL

      10—STOCKING MY HOME BAR

      11—PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS FOR MIXOLOGISTS

      12–READERS ADD THEIR TWO-CENTS

      DAVE’S FAUX COCKTAIL STORY

      MARY’S PRESCRIPTION FOR A SMILING COCKTAIL

      LUIS SANQUIS’S CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT THINKING AND BEING 

      HELEN’S COCKTAIL MIXOLOGY MAGIC ARTWORK

      Listing of Quotations for Drinkin’ N’ Thinkin’

      Optimism and Pessimism

      The Four Letter Word—WORK

      The Human Frontier

      Longevity

      Wealth and Wisdom

      Wandering and Finding

      The Ideal Life

      A Cosmic Sense of Humor

      Freedom

      Hindsight and History

      Carpe Diem

      Forgetting and Wandering

      Winning and Losing

      The ‘Morrow

      Literary Re-cycling

      Drinkin’ N’ Thinkin’ ‘Bout...

      Optimism and Pessimism

      The optimist believes 

      that this is the best of all possible worlds;

      The pessimist fears the same...

      —Author Unknown

      Introducing My Mixations

      I live in a housing development called Gold Creek in the small Pacific Northwest town of Tumwater, half-way between Seattle and Portland. I like to claim I am Gold Creek’s oldest mixologist. I know it’s true because I read it on the Internet, the fount of all truths.

      The subject of mixology conveys in my mind a certain romantic or dream-like quality. It blends regular and irregular flavors, full-consciousness and semi-unconsciousness. The cocktail appears as an alluring magic trick in a beautiful glass vessel.

      Mixology goes hand in hand with my long-standing interest in performing card tricks, sleight of hand, and mental telepathy. At the age of eight I dreamed of a career in magic. Perhaps, that is why my martini glass on the cover holds a magic wand. In addition, mixing drinks shares a special kinship with another passion: mixing rubs, sauces, and glazes for barbecue.

      Back in the early 90s, my wife and I tried to bring back the venerated martini party. Over 15 years ago it seems people caught on to the martini re-birth and every cocktail seemed to end its name with the syllable -tini. All along I enjoyed dabbling with mixology while many of the current mixologists continued their march beyond puberty.

      No this is not the whining of an old man; just an old man sharing some of his favorite recipes and sayings. And to be honest, I have learned a great deal from visiting with younger bartenders mixing up craft cocktails online and in person from Seattle, Washington to Portland, Oregon. This newer generation of Mixologists are devoted to the craft. Unlike their some of their elder predecessors, they readily share. They have put the word gourmet back into the world of mixology. Truly I claim no authority, nor expertise—just a lot of practice at making my drinks more-better.

      Like their older counterparts, the young bartenders sometimes get it wrong. Take, for example, their snobbish rejection of Rose’s Lime in favor of the more elegant handcrafted Lime Cordial. I’m practical and plebeian enough to know I can use both forms of sweet-and-sour lime mix, and when to use one rather than the other. Since some of my recipes date back over 30 years I did not do a search-and-replace for Rose’s Lime and Lime Cordial. And in at least one instance I prefer Rose’s mixer.

      Creating and enjoying a new drink is an act of romancing the cocktail gods. This is why the valentine-hearts are used on the cover. After playful experimenta-tion, I enjoy the fruits of my labors while ranting at the good dark night, sharing dreams, and yammering to anyone wlling to listen to my schemes. Like Chinese, Greek and Persian philosophers before me, I sometimes embrace the saying In Vino Veritas, translated from the Latin as In Wine There Is Truth.

      After the first draft of this book I began reviewing my copy of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat. While sipping the new experimental cocktail, I found a bit of truth, and out popped my own quatrain verse:

      Our destiny is shaped by an alchemy of tears and love

      made from half you and half the stars above;

      We can shape it only with a libation and limited time

      since

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