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Briandg · 07-09-2019, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by SmoKerch

Do you guys use two types of bitters? (Angostura and Orange)

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I've used orange before.

Briandg · 07-09-2019, 11:54 AM

I'm fond of both of them. OF and manhattans. My uncle used to drink manhattans. Crappy red vermouth ruins them.

ElkTwin · 07-09-2019, 02:22 PM

Carpano Antica. Period.

grtrx · 07-10-2019, 02:57 AM

there are some exceptional red vermouth from Spain as well

bluto · 09-30-2019, 04:50 PM

I’m a bourbon Manhattan/ old fashion drinker. Especially like Old fashions during the Christmas season

KatDad · 09-30-2019, 05:00 PM

Manhattans with Angostura bitters.

Great to see you, Bluto!

Briandg · 10-02-2019, 12:25 PM

Yes, I am still an old fashioned kind of guy and I'll drink a bourbon OF or manhattan any day of the week. One of my uncles drank them on ice. Probably cheap stuff, although he could have afforded anything. Was a partner in haskens and sells accounting.

I'd trade my family of cats for a few hours with my family again, all of them together. I'd even wear my tie and coat again.

As long as I'm having a fantasy, I'd forbid any kind of politics. They were all over the place. Lawrence and Herb would have been Repubs, Jane, Ruth, Bob and Walter would have been dems. Jane would have been a Moderate dem, Larry would be a Bush/Reagan repub.

Grandpa was a Mason as well as Lawrence, the temple is named after grandpa. I was dragged to Joplin just as I began to understand them. That is a horrible loss, I would have been a very different person.

I'm very much a richer person for having known this group. That's almost as good.

grtrx · 10-02-2019, 12:42 PM

Make it with dark rum instead of bourbon or rye.

KatDad · 10-02-2019, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by grtrx

Make it with dark rum instead of bourbon or rye.

I'll try that. I already will occasionally make a Manhattan with Brandy.

grtrx · 10-02-2019, 01:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KatDad

I'll try that. I already will occasionally make a Manhattan with Brandy.

try a sip, you may want to adjust the bitters after a test taste. Orange bitters work great. You can also do bourbon/rum although I think that muddies flavors.

07-10-2019, 02:57 AM	#24
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	there are some exceptional red vermouth from Spain as well __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

09-30-2019, 05:00 PM	#26
KatDad Herf God Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Overland Park, Kansas Posts: 30,275	Manhattans with Angostura bitters. Great to see you, Bluto! __________________ The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it George Bernard Shaw The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule it H. L. Mencken The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants Albert Camus The Land of the Free Because of the Brave

10-02-2019, 12:42 PM	#28
grtrx Contributing Editor Herf God Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Naperville IL Posts: 44,579	Make it with dark rum instead of bourbon or rye. __________________ "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Sir Winston Churchill "A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption." - Guy de Maupassant

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Briandg CW Squirrel Wrangler Herf God Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: southwest Missouri Posts: 35,518	Yes, I am still an old fashioned kind of guy and I'll drink a bourbon OF or manhattan any day of the week. One of my uncles drank them on ice. Probably cheap stuff, although he could have afforded anything. Was a partner in haskens and sells accounting. I'd trade my family of cats for a few hours with my family again, all of them together. I'd even wear my tie and coat again. As long as I'm having a fantasy, I'd forbid any kind of politics. They were all over the place. Lawrence and Herb would have been Repubs, Jane, Ruth, Bob and Walter would have been dems. Jane would have been a Moderate dem, Larry would be a Bush/Reagan repub. Grandpa was a Mason as well as Lawrence, the temple is named after grandpa. I was dragged to Joplin just as I began to understand them. That is a horrible loss, I would have been a very different person. I'm very much a richer person for having known this group. That's almost as good.