{"id":165,"date":"2015-03-31T23:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=165"},"modified":"2015-03-31T23:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T03:52:06","slug":"and-maybe-well-even-make-it-correctly-next-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/03\/31\/and-maybe-well-even-make-it-correctly-next-time\/","title":{"rendered":"And . . . Maybe We&#8217;ll Even Make It Correctly Next Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Shruffs End cocktail in the Mr. Boston guide (page 196) calls for Islay single malt scotch, apple brandy, B\u00c3\u00a9n\u00c3\u00a9dictine and Peychaud&#8217;s bitters. We actually have Islay single malt scotch around most of the time; it&#8217;s something I like, one, so yeah, and also it&#8217;s something that a lot of good cocktails include, so we also have cheap versions of Islay single malt around. So actually there&#8217;s none left right now, only a Highlands single malt that from the label sounds like the opposite of Islay scotch (&#8220;never peated!&#8221;). Between using an inappropriate expensive single malt scotch in a cocktail and using a cheap-shit blend in a cocktail, 19 times out of 20 I&#8217;ll choose the latter. So of course I went for the triangular bottle of Grants.<\/p>\n<p>And even in spite of all that, this is a good cocktail. Maybe we&#8217;ll make it correctly next time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shruffs End cocktail in the Mr. Boston guide (page 196) calls for Islay single malt scotch, apple brandy, B\u00c3\u00a9n\u00c3\u00a9dictine and Peychaud&#8217;s bitters. We actually have Islay single malt scotch around most of the time; it&#8217;s something I like, one, so yeah, and also it&#8217;s something that a lot of good cocktails include, so we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[96,110],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-benedictine","tag-shruffs-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}