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happiness = gay

meade — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:30:08 +0000

This is a post that has long been delayed which was inspired by a hatred filled bumper sticker I saw. The gist of it ran something like this: marriage = man + woman. Well, that is true. The fact that is omitted is that marriages between men and women are taken for granted by those that are bound by them, so they very rarely contain happiness. Those of the same sex have earned rights moreover than anyone else which guarantees that, because of the fire that has been waded through, happiness will be present. So yes, marriage is between men and women, or some other mess that makes the ideas that have been passed down from your parents to you survive and make sense. Just please, don’t feel for yourself, because then, you would see the abundance of love that gays have.

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Tales Coffee Bar

meade — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:31:26 +0000

Hey kids, here’s my three creations for a coffee bar during Tales (Thursday-Saturday, 9AM-11AM). You’d be foolish to be anywhere else.

Wood, Earth, Spice

1 oz Gran Duque D’Alba

1/2 oz Cesar Monterrey Silver Tequila

1/4 oz Marie Brizard Orange Curaçao

1/4 oz Velvet Falernum

3/4 oz Lemon Juice

1/2 oz Simple Syrup

Shake and Strain into a flute, add 1 1/2 oz Seltzer.

Taurus

1 oz Gran Duque Alba

2 1/2 oz Hot Milk

2 dashes Pechaud’s Bitters

1/4 oz Crema De Alba

1/4 oz Marie Brizard Apry

Put all ingredients in a pre-warmed mug. Dust with Filé Powder.

Swindler’s Whistle

1 1/2 oz Cold Espresso

1 1/2 oz Gran Duque D’Alba

1/4 oz La Fée Parisienne

2 dashes Regan’s Orange Bitters

1/2 oz Simple Syrup

Shake and fine strain into a cocktail glass.

NOWFE And Me

meade — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:03:43 +0000

Tonight and tomorrow afternoon I’ll be at the Superdome with The Roosevelt assembling sazeracs. Come out and play.

Imma Radio Star

meade — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 00:33:56 +0000

Em and I will be on WIST AM 690 New Orleans, tomorrow 4/18 at 10 am CST. You can listen to their stream if you’re not in the area at http://www.wistradio.com/page.php?page_id=8069. I’ll be talking about, you guessed it, liquor.

Six But Always Seven

meade — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:12:08 +0000

Ride the wave children. Love the experience of water. Realize that quicksand can only win if you try to fight by rules. Move when you should, do not move when you should not. Experience being humbled. Do not make yourself so. Trying always to be humble is unnecessary and is the morale version of tensing before a car crash. Always allow yourself to learn. Opening up those tunnels will lead to surprise and delight when things are ready to present themselves to you. Don’t live by anyone’s rules, especially not your own. Live in a home without walls, just one with wonderful friends. Speak to everyone that is ready to listen. Be not wasteful with those who aren’t. Take back things that have been stolen from you. Live inside your thermos and clank around your lunchbox. Love the child. Always.

meade — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:39:57 +0000

Something for this month’s USBG meeting. Name and pictures and whatnot to come later.

1/2 oz Lemonhart Demarara 151
3/4 oz Amsterdam Gin
1/4 oz Suze
1/4 oz Martini And Rossi Bianco

Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.

Winged Messenger

meade — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:53:13 +0000

This swirling pot of delicious comes to you care of my muse. I don’t have a great deal to say about it other than it is an amazing concoction that uses warm La Fée Bohemian absinth.

Uphill Climb

1 1/2 oz of La Fée Bohemian

1/4 oz of R. Jelinek fernet

1/2 oz of Marie Brizard Apry

4 oz of boiling water

1/4 tsp of oregano

3/4 tsp of sugar

1/4 oz of whole milk

Steep oregano in the first four ingredients for approximately 1 minute. Remove oregano, add sugar, then milk. Stir and serve in a teacup.

Photography by Emily W. Kincke.

Gold Rush

meade — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:57:41 +0000

Here’s a little something I put together for a Glazer’s event tonight featuring Jim Beam Bourbon:

Gold Rush

1 1/2 oz Jim Beam Bourbon

1/2 oz Herbsaint

1/2 oz Marie Brizard Orange Curacao

1/4 oz Pineapple Juice

Shake and Strain into a cocktail glass.

Photography by Emily W. Kincke.

If You Diversify Your Bonds, You Can Get More Bounce To The Ounce

meade — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:06:12 +0000

For a new method, this wondrous bowl was created by basing the flavor around orgeat and falernum. Also, it gave me a use for my orange tincture (made by half filling a jar with orange peel and then filling completely with vodka). It’s my first punch actually, and it’s damn tasty.

Toccata

1/2 oz of orgeat syrup

1/2 oz falernum

1 oz of Barsol acholado pisco

1 oz of Gordon’s gin

1 oz of Gosling’s black seal rum

1 oz of lemon juice

1/4 oz of orange tincture

Shake with crushed ice for a good bit, pour into a large glass. Float 1/4 oz of 151 Demarara rum, drink with a straw.

Photography by Emily W. Kincke.

Bad Jing And Crappy Juniper Green “Gin”

meade — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:46:41 +0000

Let me preface this post with saying that I thought it pretty well impossible for me not to enjoy a spirit. I found two recently that damn near nauseate me. And no, these aren’t rot-gut whiskies or anything. These are “quality” spirits, and priced as such. The Bái Jiǔ from Baojing runs about $35 a fifth and the Juniper Green gin ranges, but I paid about $27 for a fifth of it.

Bái Jiǔ is an asian spirit that, in the case of this particular brand, is “filtered through 168 carats of diamonds for pristine taste and for good fortune.” Gord. I don’t care if its filtered through Mother Theresa’s panties as long as it doesn’t taste as horrendous as this mess of crap did. Its become somewhat of a feigned threat in our house as a punishment during drinking games. The Bái Jiǔ was actaully the more pleasing of the two, because I had no preconceptions of what it would taste like.

Juniper Green’s “london dry gin” is nothing of the sort. The thing that was most dissappointing about it was that I had been looking forward to trying this spirit for about two years and just never got my hands on it. It tastes like a rancid clear malt whisky with some pine and other oddities in it. It almost felt like it could be something like a jonge genever, but it doesn’t even have a pleasant taste to it. Juniper Green is uneven on the palate and honestly, the only way I was able to use it was to make a punch out of it so the “flavor” wasn’t so prevalent.

Don’t buy these. I’m not saying this to intrigue you or challenge you into buying them. Don’t. They’re horrible.