{friday cocktail: the fog cutter}

Well temperatures hit less than 40 degrees on more than few days this week in Chicago and that just doesn't really work for me. At all.  So we tried to drink the weather away with a tropical tiki cocktail recipe complete with pink paper umbrella garnish.  The high temperature this weekend is going to be in the 50s so I think it worked...

Most tiki cocktails are pretty sweet, but this one is a big exception to that.  It still delivers on tiki flavor from the orgeat syrup (famously used in a Mai Tai) and the mixture of brandy/rum, but it doesn't give you a sugar headache after.  

Cheers!

{friday cocktail: brandy old fashioned}

Besides The Business, the other cocktail that gets a lot of attention in our house is an Old Fashioned.  My parents recently brought us an amazing bottle of brandy from Germain-Robin in northern California so we decided to try it out in a brandy old fashioned.  This brandy definitely makes for a sweeter version of a classic Old Fashioned which would be great for those don't yet have a taste for stronger whiskey.

Cheers!