{"id":76,"date":"2011-06-18T12:34:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drinkjournal.wordpress.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-06-18T12:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:34:15","slug":"four-fingers-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Four Fingers of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lnaqgyvcrx1qdnwxu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" title=\"tumblr_lnaqgyvcrX1qdnwxu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lnaqgyvcrx1qdnwxu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lnaqgyvcrx1qdnwxu.jpg 487w, https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/tumblr_lnaqgyvcrx1qdnwxu-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 487px) 100vw, 487px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1.5 oz Scotch<br \/>\n0.5 oz St Germain<br \/>\n0.5 oz Luxardo maraschino liquor<br \/>\n0.5 oz lemon juice<br \/>\n0.25 oz sweet vermouth<br \/>\n2 dashes plum bitters<br \/>\nAbsinthe wash<\/p>\n<p>Wash a rocks glass with a few drops of absinthe. Combine all ingredients in a shaker and stir. Pour into absinthe-washed glass. Serve garnished with cherries.<\/p>\n<p>NOTES: First, don\u2019t mind the shit picture. I forgot to take one until I\u2019d already started drinking it. Otherwise, not bad, but not great. Potential is there, and scotch is well balanced, but too sweet and syrupy. Maybe eliminate vermouth completely and reduce Luxardo to 0.25oz. Absinthe was also interesting, but unnecessary. Would also increase scotch to full 2oz next time. Consensus was strip it down a bit, and flavor will improve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.5 oz Scotch 0.5 oz St Germain 0.5 oz Luxardo maraschino liquor 0.5 oz lemon juice 0.25 oz sweet vermouth 2 dashes plum bitters Absinthe wash Wash a rocks glass with a few drops of absinthe. Combine all ingredients in a shaker and stir. Pour into absinthe-washed glass. Serve garnished with cherries. NOTES: First, don\u2019t [&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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[34,57,22,27,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-absinthe","category-luxardo","category-plum-bitters","category-scotch","category-st-germain","category-vermouth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JYfz-1e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homespeakeasy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}