{"id":1213,"date":"2021-03-12T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cuisinestupide.com\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:30:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T17:30:09","slug":"wear-the-green-drink-the-drumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cuisinestupide.com\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"Wear the green, drink the Drumble"},"content":{"rendered":"

I set out to find a St. Patrick’s Day cocktail for this week’s Sunday Special<\/a> with exactly three goals in mind:<\/p>\n

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  1. No Irish whiskey.<\/li>\n
  2. No Guinness.<\/li>\n
  3. No green food coloring.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    No Irish whiskey because that’s a spirit best consumed neat or on the rocks, not in a mixed drink. In my opinion.<\/p>\n

    No Guinness because it is a perfect beer and should never be combined with liquor or, worse yet, turned into jello shots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    And no green food coloring because we’re adults, for god’s sake.<\/p>\n

    But my quest turned out to be harder than I expected. None of my dozen or so mixology guides served up anything meeting my three conditions. I suspect that most accomplished bartenders do all they can to avoid St. Paddy’s, a day that seems designed mostly to sell putrid concoctions<\/a> in ridiculous volumes to novice drinkers, with predictably chunderous results. Some bars stock up on only two spirits by the case in advance of the holiday: Jameson and Lysol.<\/p>\n

    I finally found my pot o’ gold at, of all places, a Dublin restaurant with a Mediterranean-inspired menu and a reputation for creative cocktails. Coppinger Row<\/a> topped the Irish Post’s 2018 “Best Irish Cocktails” contest<\/a> with the Dingle Mingle, a remarkably refined combination of Irish gin, chardonnay wine, and\u2014here’s a surprise\u2014peach jam.<\/p>\n

    Just one problem: The recipe calls for Dingle Irish Gin<\/a>, a London dry variety with a unique botanical profile, including rowan berry, fuschia, and bog myrtle. Unfortunately, Oregon state liquor stores don’t carry the Dingle, so I was forced to substitute a different Irish gin, just as unique but with a very different flavor: Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin<\/a>, made with green tea and Asian-inspired botanicals, such as star anise and kaffir lime.<\/p>\n

    For the chardonnay, I went with a 2018 bottling from Del Rio Vineyards<\/a> just up the road in Gold Hill, Ore. The peach jam was also local, from Oregon Growers<\/a> in Hood River. I found that half an ounce of simple syrup rounded out the formula.<\/p>\n

    The result? I don’t have the original for comparison, but the gunpowder tea in the Drumshanbo gin gave the cocktail a wonderful dry counterpoint to the fruit and the chardonnay; the star anise added just a hint of licorice.<\/p>\n

    But with the Dingle in absentia, I can’t really call this a Mingle.<\/p>\n

    So here it is, Sunday Specials fans, an Oregon take on an Irish cocktail from a Mediterranean restaurant: the Drumble Mumble.<\/p>\n

    And because Irish sayings are as traditional as paper shamrocks on St. Patrick’s Day, I leave you with this one, attributed to the great Irish journalist and rebel Charles Gavan Duffy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

    The horse and mule live thirty years<\/em>
    \n And never know of wine and beers. <\/em>
    \nThe goat and sheep at twenty die <\/em>
    \nWithout a taste of scotch or rye. <\/em>
    \nThe cow drinks water by the ton <\/em>
    \nAnd at eighteen is mostly done. <\/em>
    \nThe dog at fifteen cashes in <\/em>
    \nWithout the aid of rum or gin. <\/em>
    \nThe modest, sober, bone-dry hen <\/em>
    \nLays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. <\/em>
    \nBut sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men <\/em>
    \nSurvive three-score years and ten. <\/em>
    \nAnd some of us, though mighty few <\/em>
    \nStay pickled ’til we’re ninety-two.<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Drumble Mumble<\/h3>\n

    Inspired by Coppinger Row<\/a>, Dublin, Ireland<\/p>\n

    1 ounce Drumshanbo Gunpowder Irish Gin
    \n2 ounces chardonnay wine
    \n1\/2 ounce simple syrup
    \n2 bar spoons of peach jam
    \n3 sprigs of fresh thyme<\/p>\n

    Chill a coupe or martini glass. Place all ingredients except one sprig of thyme in a shaker with ice. Shake hard for 10 seconds. Fine strain the cocktail into the chilled glass. Garnish with the last sprig of thyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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