Friday Night Cocktail: Hop Toad
Mixing cocktails from older cocktail books offers as many challenges as rewards. In the hardest cases, the specified ingredients no longer exist at all, such as Hercules, Forbidden Fruit or Caperitif. But even when an ingredient still exists, that doesn’t mean it’s always clear which ingredient it is. Take “apricot brandy.” There are two distinct [...]
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May 4, 2012 
