October 2009
12 posts
A New Look
I’m testing out a new domain this week so this will be the last tumblr post I do for awhile. It would be a huge favor if anyone would check out the layout over at foggyspub.blogspot.com and let me know which set up you like better - this one or that one. Blogspot is going to gain some points in my book just for allowing you to post comments on the site, so check it out and let me know what...
Drunk by Chocolate
The perfect chocolate martini should taste as much like a cocktail as it does like a milkshake. It’s easy to sway too much in either direction and wind up with either a drink that’s too sweet to finish, or something that lacks any distinguishing flavor at all. The recipe below is thankfully pretty easy to get right and the end result should impress both purists and chocolate lovers...
God Bless America
The first drink I ever invented was inspired after a cookout at the home of my good friend Emily. Her sister brought to my attention an amazingly unique piece of produce known as starfruit. If you’ve never seen one, it’s a tropical fruit that comes from the Carambola tree native to East Asia. It tastes similar to a grape and forms a five (sometimes six) pointed star when sliced. As a...
Gardening With Booze
I’ve become a huge fan of gin in the last year or so mainly due to its refreshingly distinctive flavor no matter right out of the bottle. A lot of base liquors seem to be used in cocktails to provide a background for for the cordials that cover up its flavor. With gin, adding a few simple ingredients can bring out even more flavor in the base liquor and create something pretty amazing.
My...
“By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there...”
– Don Marquis
Other uses for a Jack-O-Lantern
We’re knee-deep into Fall and so I wanted to try my hand today at crafting one of the more elusive fall cocktails - the pumpkin martini. These are elusive mainly because pumpkin liquor is seasonal and almost impossible to find outside of a few months of the year. It also, in my opinion, isn’t all that good on its own and is pretty hard to mix with anything to create something worth...
Cool Trick for Making Simple Syrup →
This actually makes simple syrup a little complicated in my opinion, but its a pretty interesting idea to avoid the huge pain of pouring the hot mixture into a bottle upon completion so its absolutely worth taking note. The traditional way of making this crucial cocktail ingredient is to bring water to a boil and add sugar until mixed completelym, then bottle (keep airtight) and refrigerate....
Strong enough for a man
Story time - right after finishing the original Foggy’s Pub, my roommates and I threw a party which was attended by a certain friend of mine I’ll refer to as “Joe.” While hanging out upstairs before said party, someone delivered a nice box of various beverages for the house-mates to enjoy before our guests started to arrive. One of the bottles in this box was none other...
1905's Green Lantern - Amazing Gin Drink →
“The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of scotch.”
– W.C. Fields
Nightly Grind
Seagram’s just came out with a delicious espresso vodka; which has spawned at Foggy’s an equally delicious and easy to make espresso martini. When properly mixed, this one should be reminiscent of an ice cold frappuccino… mixed with vodka. There’s even a bit of caffeine in this one for the after-five coffee lover.
Espresso Martini
Ingredients:
1.5 oz Seagram’s...
September 2009
6 posts
Specific Gravity Chart →
The Spirit of America
Quick post for today with a recipe for a quick drink that I call “The Spirit of America.” Get it? “Spirit?” This is a shooter utilizing a technique known as layering. Some people have a hard time with this, so it might help to explain the theory behind how it works.
Liquors, cordials, etc vary in Specific Gravity based on the amount of sugar they contain. The more sugar in...
Hookah Website Launch →
My fledgling company just launched a website where you can buy everything you might want for the delightfully relaxing pastime of smoking hookah (Hookahs are Arabic water-pipes for smoking flavored molasses tobacco, though if you don’t know what they are already it’s probably not for you). Though not entirely blog related and more on the side of a shameless plug - I’m proud to...
The Frozen Martini Experiment
In my last post I mentioned that I wanted to devote a lot of this blog (read: I can’t think of anything else to write about other than) to test out new drink recipes. In my quest to come up with a line of signature Foggy’s beverages, these recipes will be random and varied, but my promise is that they will mostly likely be delicious and/or at least serve the purpose of any good...
Welcome to Foggy's Pub and Brewery
Hello interwebs,
As this is my first post, of my first-ever blog, I will take a moment to introduce myself and explain why I plan to (hopefully) steal your attention away from youtube/twitter/facebook/social networking site of the month for a good 5-10 minutes every few days or so.
My real name is Matt; I currently live in Arlington, Va in a 100 year old little white house that most closely...