Comments on: Last Night's Dogbite: 2070 Swizzle

By: 2070, now with fabulous prizes! | Trader Tiki's Booze Blog

2070, now with fabulous prizes! | Trader Tiki's Booze Blog — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:02:00 +0000

[...] note: some editing, partially sourced from the Cocktailnerd.com 2070 post. [...]

By: Rum Review, Angostura 1919 (5/5) | Trader Tiki's Booze Blog

Rum Review, Angostura 1919 (5/5) | Trader Tiki's Booze Blog — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:45:33 +0000

[...] its versatility and flavor. One of the best drinks I’ve had with this is Martin Cate’s 2070 Swizzle, a tall and potent combination of Angostura 1919, Overproof Demerara Rum, allspice, honey, and a [...]

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:36:15 +0000

You’re most welcome, Martin, thank you for the wonderful drink!

And, absolutely, I will send you a copy of the article once it goes into print. I was planning on reaching out to you. It’s currently in editorial mash-up and, hopefully, my references to you and the competition for which you developed the Dead Reckoning remain intact. Either way, when it comes out in a week or so i will check in with you and send it your way.

Also, it was great meeting you at Tales, hopefully it’ll be in a less harried manner than this last go-around.

By: martin

martin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:41:46 +0000

Thanks for the kind write up, Gabe! I’m sure when I met you at Tales, I was either A) delirious B) loaded C) all of the above.

FYI, yes the recipe was inspired by a regular at FI who always had me make him swizzles. I usually freestyled based on several recipes, and some were better than others. So I wanted to realy get down a firm version of what I liked that was true to its Trini roots, but also mindful of the drinks eventual tikification. So I made every recipe I could get my hands on to see what I liked and didn’t like. So this is something of a “superswizzle”- usually they have far fewer ingredients. But you get honey/pernod (more tiki) and Angostura/allspice/nutmeg (more Caribbean) and I like to think they can be friends…much like the farmer and the cowman.

Can you get me a copy of that Oklahoma Mag? Happy to make babies with you as needed.

By: Dr, Bamboo

Dr, Bamboo — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:33:24 +0000

Sold! But I have to track down some Angostura first. Maybe Fight Clu— nevermind.

By: tiare

tiare — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:56:08 +0000

I think i`m going to undertake a mission here..to covert you Gabe to some of the more simple Tiki drinks (to start with). And if you need some more LH 151 sometimes..

By: Rick

Rick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:21:40 +0000

I’m ashamed to say I haven’t tried this yet. That will surely change, however. Beautiful shot Gabe. I also am sad to report I don’t have a bottle of the Angostura rum; it might as well not exist as far as Pennsylvania is concerned.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:17:30 +0000

Damn! I totally misread Rick’s wrap-up (and I was out-of-the-room while the Cilician Voyage was being developed).

My deepest apologies, most handsome of the Scofflaws. The correction has been made. And, again, great drink.

By: Marshall

Marshall — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:04:50 +0000

A-hem . . .

I was the addled brained Scofflaw of the duo which born the Cilician Voyage. Sean and I look nothing alike! :-p

Cheers! Can’t wait to try a Twenty Seventy!

Ohhh . . . today is Thursday . . .

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:03:20 +0000

Dood and Tiare:
Agreed, demerara was a surprise once I finally got my hands on them but, as I mentioned, the Mount Gay line is the closest I’ve come. While I agree it’s just not the same without the Demerara, it’s quite hard for a lot of people to get ahold of.

So, Dear El Dorado and Lemon Hart, please improve your distribution, STAT!