![]() ![]() I covered this fantastic champagne in my post which reviewed an extensive bubbly tasting. The book is filled with dramatic, moody photos by Antonis Achilleos, and includes general intelligent tips for creating cocktails. Some of my faves: Pizzicato Passage (sherry, amaro, ancho chile liqueur, gin, with candied ginger for garnish) Storm King (scotch whisky, nocino, Bénédictine, bitters, with brandied cherries for garnish) Espresso Martini (I’ve had my share of these at Dear Irving: vodka, cold-brew coffee, coffee liqueur, vanilla liqueur, with 3 coffee beans for garnish). ![]() In these chapters, she’s collected a wonderful smattering of cocktails from mixologists around the world, in bars you have probably frequented. Kara states that the concept of the nightcap is less about the drink itself, and more about what’s really being said when one asks “How about a nightcap?” The real message is “I’m not quite ready for the evening to end, let’s prolong this conversation, this dazzling meal, one more dance…” With that in mind, she indeed has provided the most elegant suggestions into clever categories, (1) cocktails to send you off to sleep, (2) to keep the conversation going, (3) to aid digestion, (4) to sweeten the deal, and (5) one more for the road. In Nightcap, she explores the concept of “that last drink” of the night in a myriad of intoxicating ways. See our on-target suggestions below for gifting inspiration.ġ Nightcap: More than 40 Cocktails to Close Out Any EveningĪuthor Kara Newman has pulled together the perfect little cocktail book. Though feel free to give it a different name.Hobnob recommends bringing a special bottle over to your friend who is a drink connoisseur for starters (see our suggestions at this link), and taking it one step further for total mastery. “This is my robot bartender, Sheila,” you’ll say, as your guests’ jaws drop in unison. But if you’re one of those people who enjoy hosting family get-togethers or work parties or poker nights or what have you, and want to take those duties to the next level, or just really want to impress someone, like your boss, or your in-laws, or maybe even a certain special someone, it might be worth taking the ol’ robot bartender out of the cabinet, placing it on the countertop, loading it with booze and letting it rip. And obviously, it doesn’t really make sense to use this to mix a single after-work martini or whatever. ![]() ![]() Naturally, it helps if you have some bartending knowledge. After that, you tell the app what you’ve added and the app will tell you which cocktails it's capable of making. Easy peasy. The machine can hold five bottles of alcohol, which you place upside down on top of the machine via specially designed plugs, as well as three one-liter bottles of mixers, which are inserted into the side. Prior to this, of course, you’ll have to actually add the booze and the mixers. Once you’ve made your selection, the machine will go about doing it’s machine-y things to make your drink-dispensing liquids into the glass roving beneath the liquids, mixing stuff up at 300 RPM in its special vortex receptacle-and thirty seconds later, bam: you’re ready to get drunk off a cocktail a robot made. Without getting too into the weeds about how this machine works, because we’re not even going to pretend to try to understand how this machine really works, you basically download the app, and either ask it to make one of it’s pre-programmed libations, or use it to create one of your own. And, if the promotional materials for Barsys are any indication, it appears they’ve finally done it. This feels like a technological nut people who like to drink have been trying to crack for a long, long time. It’s an automated cocktail maker, by which me mean, it’s a bona fide frickin’ ROBOT BARTENDER, and it’s available to purchase online in the US for the first time on August 1 st (it was previously only available in India, England, Italy and Switzerland). It doesn’t have any preferences when it comes to serving, say, very attractive women, before it serves you.Įxcuse us-we were just going over some pros and cons regarding Barsys. It isn’t someone whose number you can try (and most likely fail) to score on the way out. It can’t be a sounding board for all your existential woes. ![]()
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