Comments on: Lemonade with an Attitude: The Fog Cutter https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/ You can make these cocktails. Start right now. Fri, 05 Feb 2016 22:27:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-107303 Fri, 05 Feb 2016 22:27:11 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-107303 In reply to Jacob Hooker.

This sounds delicious and interesting, I look forward to hearing more about it. Thanks!

]]> By: Jacob Hooker https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-107284 Tue, 02 Feb 2016 09:16:05 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-107284 Just made a new variant on this template so different that it probably warrants a different name…I’ll give it some thought and likely write it up. But it’s essentially a mashup of a Fog Cutter, a Ramos Gin Fizz, and a mocktail I make for the lady friend before we go to work. Grapefruit, kiwi, Nicaraguan rum, gin, brandy, and elderflower syrup. Delicious.

]]> By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-107226 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 16:31:59 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-107226 In reply to Jacob Hooker.

Tiki in a snowstorm, I like it! Your version looks like a good one.

As for the sherry, I’ve come to believe that I just don’t have the “sherry gene.” My hat is off to sherry drinkers everywhere. As for the aquavit, I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s favorite. I can take it or leave it, but it satisfies my perceived requirement for an unusual taste surprise at the end of the drink. I don’t think I would have thought of it by myself—it’s definitely inspired by the Viking Fog Cutter.

Thanks for adding your recipe.

]]> By: Jacob Hooker https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-107220 Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:16:55 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-107220 Well, it took a few trips to the grocery store, but I’ve toured the options for this sour, I think. I used this page as a springboard, and basically made two different Fog Cutters every time I subbed in a different ingredient, one your way and one Bergeron’s. I have to hand it to you; the balanced orange and lemon is really key (except for the time I used Meyer lemons, but that should have been obvious). I’ve subbed in blood orange juice, minneola juice, meyer lemon juice, etc…your proportions are good, with only minimal tinkering. My final favorite is:

.75 oz Scarlet Ibis
.25 oz Cruzan Black Strap
1 oz Smith and Cross
.75 oz Anchor Junipero
1 oz Hine Rare VSOP
1.5 oz Lemon Juice
1.5 oz Navel Orange Juice
.5 oz Homemade Orgeat
East India Solera Sherry

I do disagree with you regarding the sherry. I enjoy the nuts and fruit that it adds at the end. But having a sharp lemon flavor just before encountering does make it odd. Likewise, I find the caraway addition you suggested, vis-a-vis aquavit, very strange. Chalk it up to different palates. Anyway, thanks for this post, it helped me rediscover my tiki obsession in the midst of all this snow.

]]> By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84256 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 23:59:31 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84256 In reply to Bob LaBree.

Good to hear from you, Bob—

I didn’t go to enough movies in my youth to learn this version of the Suicide. It’s brilliant, and very amusing. I can picture it. Thanks for adding it here.

But “Green River”? What th’…?

]]> By: Bob LaBree https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84197 Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:12:19 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84197 “Back in the day,” the soda machines in movie theaters allowed you to press all the buttons and get all the flavors at once. For us, a “suicide” was pressing all the buttons, including root beer and Green River. We thought we liked it.

The Jamaican is far superior.

]]> By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84193 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:39:36 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84193 In reply to Kate’s Bookshelf.

Hi, Kate,

One rum will do it, use whatever you have and you’ll end up with a pretty good Fog Cutter. I hope your friend enjoys it, too.

Thanks for taking time to write.

]]> By: Doug Ford https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84192 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:37:38 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84192 In reply to al.

Hi, Al, I’ll take your complaint as a compliment, thank you.

I agree that Myers’s would likely be a great choice for a float—widely available, big dark Jamaican flavor, yet still perhaps a more accessible flavor for lots of drinkers. Good suggestion, and I look forward to trying it.

Thanks for the recommendation!

]]> By: al https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84177 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 13:48:11 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84177 Once again a great read. Information, wit and an intuitive grasp of alcohol balance meld like a fine Tiki drink.
A Myerss float may work . As for mixing alcohols, I was making a few Hemingway Daiquiris and was low on the rum, and slid in some vodka. Nobody noticed or at least they didn’t complain.
My only complaint about you is that you don’t write enough columns/posts.

]]> By: Kate's Bookshelf https://cold-glass.com/2014/07/26/lemonade-with-an-attitude-the-fog-cutter/#comment-84166 Sun, 27 Jul 2014 05:00:52 +0000 http://cold-glass.com/?p=13303#comment-84166 This sounds really good. I can’t say I have the luxury of all those rums, but I love citrus things and if they go down refreshing and smooth, all the better. I actually have a friend who might be interested in this type of drink.

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