Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Portland

I’m a bartender at Pacific Standard in Portland, Oregon, author of The Bar Book and Drinking Distilled. Head judge, San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

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All of My Free Calculators in One Place

Sep 21, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Ever since I started building webapps this summer and sharing them with the world, I’ve been (pleasantly) bombarded with requests from people who want more. Which is awesome and I promise I’m going to get to many of the ones I haven’t gotten to yet. However, I have gotten a lot of requests for tools that I’ve already made and shared with the world. So in an effort to make it easier for you to find everything, I’m gonna put them all here in this post.
The Batch Cocktail Calculator

Sep 8, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

I made this for you guys because I love you – the Batch Cocktail Calculator. Designed for both professional bartenders and folks who make drinks at home, this calculator takes your single-serving cocktail recipe and turns it into a batch of any size. This project kicked my ass a more than the Universal Syrup Calculator did, but in the end it works great and I hope it will be just as helpful to you as syrupmath.com is. Here are the parameters I set for myself on this project:1.
Norwegian Wood Cocktail Recipe

Sep 6, 2024 | diffordsguide.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

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Apple Juice Arnold Palmer

Aug 4, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

MAKE YOUR ARNOLD PALMERS WITH APPLE JUICE!!This was the sound of the voice inside my head while I was frantically trying to get a new drink recipe out the door at work so I could photograph it and get the hell out of town so we could jump in the river. I was steeping black tea into hot @martinellisco apple juice because I didn’t have time to infuse the whiskey with it, and the dreamy scent of it all reminded me that Arnold Palmers had been requested for our river lunch.
Quick and Dirty Rhubarb Syrup

Jul 14, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

I shot this a few weeks ago but of course forgot to upload it here. It’s rhubarb season here, and after watching a few people overthink rhubarb syrup I thought I’d share how I do it at home (and at the bar) – it’s insanely easy. Some thoughts on rhubarb syrup. I’ve never liked this method I see people using where you cook the rhubarb for a long time on the stovetop, for several reasons:Rhubarb gets that real stewed, vegetal flavor when you cook it over heat.
All-Day Bloody Mary Mix

Mar 23, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

This is a take on the solution to The Bloody Mary Conundrum that I posted over a decade ago, in response to the logistical challenges of having a Bloody Mary on the menu at a bar. This particular take is detailed more extensively in the All-Day Bloody Mary post, and I encourage you to read it. This is the recipe for the mix used in that drink. You’ll want a couple of tools for this if you don’t have them already, a digital scale capable of measuring hundredths of a gram and a nut milk bag.
The All-Day Bloody Mary

Mar 21, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

This recipe, one of the first developed for the opening menu at Pacific Standard, is my reconciliation to a drink that I never really cared for in the first place: The Bloody Mary. Yeah I know it’s weird. But as a bartender, I’ve always been that guy that died a little inside whenever someone ordered a Bloody Mary at night. I even wrote this in Drinking Distilled many years ago:In general, you don’t order a Bloody Mary after noon.
Flannel Shirt - Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Jan 27, 2024 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

This is another one of those instances where I assumed the recipe was already on my website and lo and behold… it wasn’t. So here we go, although many of you have already found this one in other locations (it can also be found on page 40 of The Bar Book, for example) I think it’s still important to have it here on my site. I came up with this one a VERY long time ago, for an event sponsored by Highland Park scotch whisky.
Flannel Shirt Cocktail Recipe

Dec 12, 2023 | diffordsguide.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

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A Love Letter to Bleu Cheese Stuffed Olives

Nov 12, 2023 | jeffreymorgenthaler.com | Jeffrey Morgenthaler

My first real fancy bar job was at a French restaurant. I’d been working for like six years in dive bars and clubs already but this was like, black tie, crisp white shirt, starched bistro apron, the whole thing. Pouring wine and TONS of Martinis. At least once a night someone would order a Martini with bleu cheese stuffed olives.