{"id":185,"date":"2009-01-14T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=185"},"modified":"2009-01-14T22:07:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T03:07:48","slug":"sweet-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/?p=185","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finally mixed a Black Manhattan. This is a whiskey and amaro drink that was developed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bourbonandbranch.com\/\">Bourbon and Branch<\/a><a> in San Francisco. I&#8217;d seen the recipe (published in the <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/projects.washingtonpost.com\/recipes\/2008\/07\/09\/black-manhattan\/\">Washington Post in July 2008<\/a>), but was a little worried that it would taste too hot, as the Averna has about twice as much alcohol as the vermouth it would replace. But once I inhaled the aroma of the finished cocktail my concerns were dissuaded.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><u>Black Manhattan<\/u><br \/>\nIn a shaker, pour over ice<br \/>\n2oz rye whiskey;<br \/>\n&#190;oz Averna;<br \/>\n1 dash Angostura bitters;<br \/>\n1 dash Regan&#8217;s orange bitters.<br \/>\nStir until chilled,<br \/>\nstrain into a cocktail glass,<br \/>\ngarnish with a candied cherry.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since I had just gotten a bottle of W.L.Weller wheated bourbon, I used equal parts of that and Sazerac rye whiskey. Each whiskey presents an appealing spiciness tasted along the sides of tongue. Also I garnished with a lemon twist, which I thought was much nicer than a cherry.<\/p>\n<p>The sweet spice of the Averna is very smooth over the whiskeys, and extends through their rougher spiciness. This is another excellent cocktail!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I finally mixed a Black Manhattan. This is a whiskey and amaro drink that was developed at Bourbon and Branch in San Francisco. I&#8217;d seen the recipe (published in the Washington Post in July 2008), but was a little worried that it would taste too hot, as the Averna has about twice as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bourbon","category-mixed-drinks","category-recipes","category-whiskey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boozecouncil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}