Sad, but true…Let’s be frank, not everyone is going to be as excited as you or I about the vintage, classic, or the ‘ohmygod it’s perfectly balanced!’ cocktail. And, if you’re like me, you find that your principles of honoring and believing in the beauty of transcendent and timeless drinks conflict most often when you ask a guest or patron, ‘What can I get you?’. Most often you’ll get back, ‘Well, what do you have in mind?’, or ‘What’s your specialty this evening/week/these days?’, or ‘What do you think I’d like?’. To which, after your running through a myriad of wonderful cocktails you just can’t wait to further espouse the beauties and history of, they respond, ‘Ehhhhhh, I’ll just have a/an <insert insipid flavorless and most likely vodka-based drink here>’. Your heart drops, you pause, and finally you turn, broken and defeated, to your bar muttering about truth, and beauty, and how you were born in the wrong damned century… All true. Read More »