{"id":584,"date":"2011-11-11T12:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-11-11T12:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:08:17","slug":"the-end-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"The End of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/potluck-drink-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-585\" title=\"potluck-drink-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/potluck-drink-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/potluck-drink-2.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/potluck-drink-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were invited to a potluck this past week with a lot of people that do some really heavy-duty cooking, so I thought I&#8217;d leave the cooking to them and bring along a drink to share. I also got to take the half-finished bar bag for a test run. It needs a little work, but it&#8217;s getting there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The End of Summer<\/strong><br \/>\n1.5 oz Old Forester Bourbon<br \/>\n0.5 oz Mescal<br \/>\n0.5 oz Rhuby<br \/>\n1 oz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/?p=564\">Vanilla Pear Shrub<\/a><br \/>\n3 drops <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/?p=568\">Autumn Spice Bitters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shake ingredients well with ice and strain into a glass on the rocks. Add a drop of bitters to the top of the drink to really bring out the smell. Garnish with slices of pear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTES<\/strong>: I liked this one a lot. The tart of the shrub with the smoke of the mezcal is great, and the bourbon shrank pretty nicely into the background. More than anything, I was pretty excited to use our bitters in something, and I have to say I was happy with the result. Like I said in an earlier post, they aren&#8217;t quite as strong as some other bitters I&#8217;m used to, but upping the amount slightly seems to do the trick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were invited to a potluck this past week with a lot of people that do some really heavy-duty cooking, so I thought I&#8217;d leave the cooking to them and bring along a drink to share. I also got to take the half-finished bar bag for a test run. It needs a little work, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[101,6,15,100,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-spice-bitters","category-bourbon","category-mezcal","category-pear-vanilla-shrub","category-rhuby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JYfz-9q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}