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1 day ago | 
robbreport.com.au | Jason O'Bryan
A drink where the flavours work so well together, its invention was practically inevitable. I think of certain cocktails as being “inevitable.” The Daiquiri, the Whiskey Sour, the Manhattan… these are drinks wherein the flavours work so well together, it was only a matter of time until someone put them together. These are also all drinks whose specific histories are lost to time for that exact reason. Who first mixed a Mojito?
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4 days ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
I think of certain cocktails as being “inevitable.” The Daiquiri, the Whiskey Sour, the Manhattan… these are drinks wherein the flavors work so well together, it was only a matter of time until someone put them together. These are also all drinks whose specific histories are lost to time for that exact reason. Who first mixed a Mojito? Who cares! Even if it were knowable (which it’s not), it wouldn’t matter. It was inevitable. The Elderflower Spritz is, similarly, inevitable.
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1 week ago | 
robbreport.com.au | Jason O'Bryan
Passion fruit, vanilla, and poblano chile liqueur combine for a drink Margarita drinkers in search of adventure will love.
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1 week ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
In order to understand the Chi Chi Rodriguez cocktail and what it’s like to drink one, it’s helpful to distinguish which Chi Chi Rodriguez it’s named for, because there are two: The one you’re probably familiar with is the swashbuckling Puerto Rican golfer who made a name for himself in the 1960s and ‘70s by doing a little dance where he pretended his putter was a sword.
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2 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
The Godfather is underappreciated. This is an amusing sentiment to even consider, given the first two Godfather movies (ignoring the existence of the third one, of which we do not speak) are among the most acutely appreciated films ever released. But today we’re talking about the Godfather cocktail, a drink that succeeded for a time in riding the coattails of the Corleone family, but ended up, if you’ll forgive the extended metaphor, less like Michael and more like Fredo.
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3 weeks ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
The Martinez is the missing link. The halfway point. It is both stylistically and chronologically a middle child, a cocktail that falls comfortably into the category of “forgotten classic,” which is kind of a hilarious understatement considering how famous its siblings have become. The timeline goes like this: American bartenders get their hands on vermouth in the 1870s or so. The Manhattan is invented soon after, which is whiskey, sweet vermouth, and bitters.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
The Champs Élysées. If you have even a passing familiarity with the famous boulevard in Paris, I suspect I know what’s happening in your brain when you hear its name. The cultural idea of France is already imbued with refinement (why every other beauty product, no matter how cheap or shitty, has half its label in French), but that goes double for Paris, and even more so for what has been called “the most beautiful avenue in the world,” the Champs Élysées.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan |Jeremy Repanich
For the past five years, we’ve been diving deep into the world of cocktails, with bartender Jason O’Bryan—now the lead mixologist at Michelin three-star Addison—building an incredible library of the best drinks around. Over that time we’ve explored the history, people, and places that have created endless variations on the core cocktail templates. Of course, this includes plenty of tequila-based drinks.
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com | Jason O'Bryan
The strangest thing about the Brancolada is probably how weird it isn’t. A Brancolada is a Piña Colada with half the rum replaced by Brancamenta, a version of the amaro Fernet Branca accented with extra peppermint oil. If you’re familiar with Fernet Branca at all, you could, at first glance, be forgiven for thinking this is some kind of prank. Sorry—Fernet Branca?
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1 month ago | 
robbreport.com.sg | Jason O'Bryan
“There are no second acts in American life.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald“Yes there are.” –The Fitzgerald CocktailYes, there are. Of course there are. F. Scott Fitzgerald was never more wrong than in this oft-quoted line from The Last Tycoon, and there’s ample evidence that he actually didn’t believe it, but regardless, my favourite argument against the sentiment is to point to the existence of the author’s namesake cocktail, the Fitzgerald, which is, in and of itself, a second act.
