FCB: Gourmet 50’s Cocktails – Frangipani

Not sure if it is related to their upcoming demise, but Gourmet magazine online is doing a feature where they publish their 20 favorite cocktails of each decade, starting from the ’40s. They are upto the 90s now.
Simply gazing at the wonderful photos are probably worth the time by itself, but it is wonderful [...]

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FCB: Givin’ Martini a Bad Name…

A sincere request to lovers of alcohol everywhere…to stop appending the name ‘Martini’ at the end of any random fruity, colorful liquor concoction.
Even otherwise erudite bloggers are at it, tweeting about something called Mango Martini ! As far as I can see, it is just a variation of the SATC-popularized cocktail Cosmopolitan, with mango juice [...]

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FCB: A Beer Cocktail

Beer cocktails: well yes, apparently the twain does meet occasionally to create a satisfying drink.
However, do not confuse this lot with the sugary, fizzy abominations generically known as alcopops that seem to be the rage among the kids these days. While no self-respecting drinker should be seen in public with a bottle of alcopop, a [...]

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FCB: A non-religous Easter and a Scotch-based drink

In which Friday Cocktail Blogging makes a (hopefully) stealthy return (just like a much too drunk husband enters the bedroom after a nite out with the blokes ? [1] ) Written while copiously consuming the drink mentioned below and the hi-fi belting out classic Ghazals such as Main Nashe Mein Hoon, Hungama Kyon Hai (Thodisi [...]

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B.W.D

As a staunch supporter of the Blogging While Drunk (BWD) movement, we take the strongest possible exception to this post, by the man who calls himself the ‘Lord‘. It is not so much the contents of the post or the spelling error in the title (Rambling not Rumbling), but it is the sober confession [...]

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FCB: somewhat resembling a post…

Over the past few weeks, cocktail blogging has been severely neglected. Ironically, the excuse is increased social drinking. Keeping up with the Aussies is tough, they do imbibe a lot (bars look pretty full even on weekdays and I did see someone drinking a beer at 7.30am !). Additionally, it does not help when beside [...]

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FCB: The ‘French Martini’

Regular readers will know about my distaste for calling anything other than gin + vermouth a ‘martini’, especially any drink that is fruity and colored. But I suppose concession must be made for the market popularity of such stuff – usually because they are sweet and often mask the taste of the original spirit. The [...]

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fcb: naughty, naughty……

FCB was off last week – but as is the case of the unfortunate tree falling in the jungle and no one being there to hear, the occassion went (thankfully?) unnoticed. This week, FCB does not have much to offer either, other than what the writer of the blog is currently drinking. Truthfully, the recipe [...]

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Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyy…..

…..that’s us (a combined British/American/aussie/Indian team) erupting in joy after winning the Thursday Trivia-nite (briefly mentioned here) – and not only won, but having cracked the additional Jackpot question, thereby pocketing a cool thousand odd Aussies dollars. Feels wonderful when a somewhat calculated guess pays off.
For the record, the jackpot question was: Which musical [...]

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FCB: Random musings and a Daiquiri

Some random, irrelevant thoughts on drinking socially and such. Feel free to skip to the drink recipe at the bottom.

I enjoy consuming alcohol, but have realized that satisfaction often comes more from the social interactions inherent with drinking rather than the spirits themselves. To be sure, some alcohol such as aged single-malt scotch or [...]

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FCB: In which I feel humbled….

….and then aggrieved.

Last evening, a bunch of us were participating in the (now ritualistic) weekly Trivia-nite at a local bar (with additional inducements of $7 T-Bone steak and chips) – which is really just an excuse to drink beer, not that the trivia portion isn’t exciting or challenging as well, but I digress – [...]

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FCB: The cocktails and I – Random Eight.

In spite of the CTBT proclamation, Patrix tagged me with the random facts meme. Now, it is truly not quite possible to do this tag accurately since for the eight facts to be random, I should ideally make a list of all facts about me, number them and then use a random number generator to [...]

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