{"id":152,"date":"2008-12-16T00:56:50","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-12-16T00:56:50","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T05:56:50","slug":"a-quick-spicy-post-mixology-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"a quick spicy post (Mixology Monday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig, over at Tiki Drinks and Indigo Firmaments is hosting <a href=\"http:\/\/tdif.brotherhoodofif.com\/2008\/12\/05\/mixology-monday-december-2008-spice\/\">this month&#8217;s Mixology Monday. And he has declared the theme for December to be SPICE<\/a>. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/blotto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/mxmologo.gif\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Mixology Monday\" title=\"MxMon-logo\" width=\"175\" height=\"83\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62\" \/>  <\/p>\n<p>This past weekend I attended the annual holiday open house at House Spirits. There, I was finally able to obtain (finally the label was approved and finally they found time in their production schedule) a bottle (alright, several bottles) of Matt Mount&#8217;s ouzo, made under the House Spirits Apothecary line. <\/p>\n<p>Using this lovely Oregon Ouzo, I made this variant on the Alexander.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><u>Alexandros<\/u><br \/>\nin a shaker, pour over cracked ice <br \/>\n1oz half-and-half, <br \/>\n1oz House Spirits&#8217; Oregon Ouzo, <br \/>\n1oz (Mt.Gay Eclipse) amber rum, and <br \/>\na dash simple syrup. <br \/>\nShake, and strain into a cocktail glass. <br \/>\nFinish with a grate of nutmeg.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a pleasant, smooth, creamy, semi-dry, slightly anise-flavored drink. If you can obtain a suitably dry and pure tasting ouzo (such as the Oregon Ouzo), I heartily recommend this lightly spiced drink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig, over at Tiki Drinks and Indigo Firmaments is hosting this month&#8217;s Mixology Monday. And he has declared the theme for December to be SPICE. This past weekend I attended the annual holiday open house at House Spirits. There, I was finally able to obtain (finally the label was approved and finally they found time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixed-drinks","category-mixology_monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}