Get your hands on a bottle of sloe gin, turn up Rumors by Fleetwood Mac, and let the games begin!
Sloe Comfortable Screw
from Dale DeGroff's Craft of the Cocktail
1 oz sloe gin
1 oz Southern Comfort
4 oz fresh orange juice
Orange slice for garnish
This drink has sloe gin, southern comfort, and OJ -- get it? A sloe, comfortable screw. Build in a highball glass. Garnish with an orange slice.
Alabama Slammer
from Dale DeGroff's Craft of the Cocktail
3/4 oz Southern Comfort
1 oz vodka
3/4 oz sloe gin
4 oz fresh orange juice
6 dashes grenadine, for garnish
Shake all ingredients hard with ice, strain into six 1-oz shot glasses, and dash the top of each with grenadine. Bottoms up!
Trader Vic's Bartender's Guide Revised Edition has a whole section devoted to Sloe Gin (and Pisco!) so pick up a copy and get inspired. I tried this cocktail and loved it -- it's surprisingly well balanced, sweet but not cloying, and utterly imbibeable.
San Francisco Cocktail
3/4 oz sloe gin
3/4 oz Italian vermouth
3/4 oz French vermouth
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash orange bitters
Shake with ice cubes. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Add a cherry.
Cin-cin!
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Hi there,
I stumbled upon your blog. I've heard of this group - comes up in convo with various people. Anyway, we sell a great small selection of books at one of our two stores (called Therapy) in Fenway and I'd love love love to sell your Little Black Book of Cocktails at the store. Who do I need to get in contact with to make this happen???
XOXO
Leah
Hi Leah!
We re so excited that you are interested in helping us sell the Little Black Book! We are actually about to go into our second print run. Please drop us a line at lupecboston@gmail.com.
Thanks!
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