Hot Water Music
2 oz Hendricks Gin
0.5 oz St. Germain
0.25 Creme de Violette
0.25 Getreide Kümmel liquor
2 dashes Angostura bitters
Top with soda water
Stir ingredients well with ice. Serve over small or crushed ice. Probably garnish with some kind of edible flower or something like that.
NOTES: Tried to come up with some floral-type ingredients to match with the Hendricks, and holy hell, it worked well. This is one of my favorites in a while. Almost entirely clear (important not to overdo the Violette or Angostura) with just a purpleish tint, and extremely drinkable. Slightly sweet and floral, but neither of those two things in excess. This was the first time we’ve really played with the Getreide Kummel, but damn, if it isn’t delicious. Definitely my favorite drink in a while. I think we might have another cocktail party winner here. And just think, I didn’t like gin less than a year ago. Now my two favorite drinks so far have been Bluecoat and Hendricks-based.
ICE NOTES: We found these weird little cheap ice trays at Bed Bath and Beyond that are really pretty neat. Giving them a bit of a test run as an alternative to crushing ice by hand with the tiny vintage ice crusher that takes forever and a day to fill a glass. Happy with them so far.
Hey Guys, this sounds great!
Quick note on crushed ice.
Instead of a crank-style crusher, why not give something like this a try?
http://www.after5catalog.com/lewis-ice-bag-p-1412.html
Alternately, a clean pillowcase and a heavy cast iron pan do a damn fine job 🙂
The one we have isn’t a crank style crusher. Since we only really make drinks one or two at a time, we got something like this:
http://bowerbirdz.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/crusher4.jpg
It works great for one or two drinks, but it takes a while to use. If we’re doing large batches for parties, obviously we are crushing full bags, but for just us, that’s overkill.
Wow that was odd. I just wrote an really long comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say wonderful blog!