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Lime Pie – The Drink

Posted by Rex on February 03, 2010 - Print This Post Print This Post
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I was searching through this months Food and Wine and discovered a little drink that looked amazing.  The drink was originally called Ramoncita Lopez Special, the name was too long.  As a bartender, anything with more than two words in the name is overkill.  Further, the drink tastes like a key lime pie.  No shit, it is awesome.  Since I didn’t use key limes, I felt I should not call it key-lime pie.  So I limited it to just Lime Pie.

Lime Pie - The Cocktail

The foam comes from an egg white.  If you are little worried pick up some pasteurized eggs.

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Root Bourbon Float

Posted by Rex on November 11, 2009 - Print This Post Print This Post
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Happy Veterans Day!!!  Federal Holiday and nobody seems to be working here in DC.  So it is a good thing that it happened to fall on a Wednesday.  Yep, Cocktail Wednesday.  The other day I went to the store and they had real Root Beer on sale.  Not that caramel colored stuff that we know and love.  Real brewed root beer.  So I picked some up.  After tasting it I went through my bar and found that Bourbon worked magically with it.  Then one thing led to another and I ended up grabbing some vanilla ice cream and the Root Bourbon Float was born.

Root Bourbon Float

Root Bourbon Float

The root beer reacts with the ice cream and creates a delicious foam.

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