What's on tap?
Current selection:
Current selection:
Bourbon: 'America's whiskey'-- smokey spirit with a bite distilled from corn in oak barrels. After the bourbon is bottled, the charred oak barrels are packed up and sent to the UK to age...
Scotch: The smokey peat fired choice of the experienced drinker. Broadly divided between "Blended" and "Single Malt", most large brands such as Chivas or Cutty Sark are blended. This simply means that their product is a blend of whiskies from different distilleries. Single malt whiskies are from a single distiller from malted barley.
Gin: Grain alcohol flavored with juniper berries
Rum: Light spirit made from sugarcane juice or molasses and aged in oak barrels.
Tequila: Mexican brandy made from the agave plant. Patron is the favored brand of Cary's.
Vodka: Clear (or flavored and colored) liquor distilled from potatoes, grain or sugar beet molasses.
Bushmills: Unionist Protestant whiskey
Jameson: Irish Catholic whiskey
These are mostly recipe suggestions (from Mr. Boston and personal experience). Your bartender is always right.
Bloody Mary: Often a 'hair-of-the-dog' Sunday morning hangover cure this is commonly a vodka and tomato juice on the rocks with Worchestershire, Tabasco, celery salt, celery, pickles, lime, olives, etc.
Hurricane: Light rum, dark rum, passion fruit syrup aand lime juice.
Long Island Iced Tea: Vodka, gin, rum, tequila, sour mix and Coke.
Margarita: Often served frozen (blended), but if the bartender says the blender is broken--- take it on the rocks. The bartender is always right. Tequila, Cointreau and sour mix.
Martini: Subject of a million articles and tracts. Originally gin and a sweet and/or dry vermouth on the rocks, now commonly chilled quadrupled distilled vodka with some fancy over sized olives.
Rum and Coke: I'll leave this one to your imagination, but throw in a lime with it.
Rusty Nail: The drink of the true boozer. Drambuie and scotch.
Screwdriver: Also known as vodka and orange juice.
Sea Breeze: Vodka, cranberry and grapefruit juice.
Many folks, instead of slugging down a simple ounce and a half of Cuervo or Jack, need to have a foolish name and sugary silliness associated with their shooters. These are some of the more popular ones.
B-52: Kaluha, Bailey's, Cointreau
Blow Job: Bailey's and Amaretto
Car Bomb: Drop a shot of Bailey's into half a glass of Guinness.
Jäger Bomb: Drop a shot of Jägermeister into half a glass of Red Bull.
Kamikaze: vodka, orange liqueur, lime juice
Lemon Drop: vodka, lemon wedge, sugar
Liquid Cocaine: Jägermeister, Goldschläger, Rumple Minze
Mudslide: Kaluha, Bailey's and vodka
Russian Quaalude: Layer the spirits in order so that they float on top of each other correctly. Frangelico, Bailey's and vodka.
Sex on the Beach: Peach schnapps, vodka, cranberry juice, orange juice, pineapple juice. Generally followed with a shot of Sand Between Your Cheeks.
Three Wise Men Visit Mexico: Johnnie Walker, Jim Beam, Jack Daniel's and Jose Cuervo.Listed from heaviest to lightest.
Stout: Creamy black nirvana made from roasted malts and barley-- e.g., Guinness
Porter: A very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley
Pale Ale: A variety of beers which use ale yeast and predominantly pale malts. Also known as amber ale in the USA.
Lager: Beers produced with bottom-fermenting yeast strains at colder fermentation temperatures than ales.
Pilsner (or pilsener): A type of lager. Beers produced with bottom-fermenting yeast strains at colder fermentation temperatures than ales. Most of the big name US beers are pilsners, e.g., Old Style, Bud, Lite, etc.
There is too much wine knowledge than can be covered by this humble site. Check out Wine Spectator.
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