{"id":263,"date":"2015-06-12T00:42:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T04:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=263"},"modified":"2015-06-12T00:42:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T04:42:37","slug":"invented-by-the-hair-of-my-chinny-chin-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/06\/12\/invented-by-the-hair-of-my-chinny-chin-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented By The Hair Of My Chinny Chin-Chin."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So after coming with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/06\/12\/when-youre-keyed-in-its-less-bar-guide-than-barguide\/\">this intensely Fernet-Brancatious cocktail<\/a>, the next day I was tasked with something a little less Brancatious. My first thought was to go for something gin-based, mostly because I think I get really sidetracked by bitters in bourbon. Gin&#8217;s a little out of my comfort zone, so it becomes a fun challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boston has a lot of good gin cocktails. One I&#8217;m surprised I hadn&#8217;t already tried because it has a few ingredients I&#8217;d been trying to mix into stuff is the &#8220;Solomon Sling&#8221; (page 95), I guess a variation on a Singapore Sling. It&#8217;s six parts gin, three parts lemon juice, two parts simple syrup, two parts kirschwasser, one part Cherry Heering (or the knockoff I used) and one dash Angostura bitters.<\/p>\n<p>It was really elegant, I don&#8217;t want to say &#8220;surprisingly&#8221; so but definitely elegant, like a cocktail you&#8217;d get at a cocktail bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So after coming with this intensely Fernet-Brancatious cocktail, the next day I was tasked with something a little less Brancatious. My first thought was to go for something gin-based, mostly because I think I get really sidetracked by bitters in bourbon. Gin&#8217;s a little out of my comfort zone, so it becomes a fun challenge. [&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":[127,166,111],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-gin","tag-kirschwasser","tag-mr-boston-official-bartenders-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","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=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}