{"id":364,"date":"2015-12-07T23:07:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=364"},"modified":"2015-12-07T23:07:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T04:07:42","slug":"the-age-of-vermouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/12\/07\/the-age-of-vermouth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Age Of Vermouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a drink in the 1927 book <em>Barflies and Cocktails<\/em> called &#8220;Warday&#8217;s Cocktail&#8221; (page 75), which is 1 teaspoon of yellow Chartreuse (I used green because I only have green), &#8220;1\/3 Italian Vermouth&#8221; &#8212; i.e., one ounce sweet vermouth, 1\/3 gin (read: one ounce gin) and 1\/3 calvados or Apple Jack (we used one ounce of Apple Jack).<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued by it because a gin\/Apple Jack-based drink sounds really weird. That, and the chartreuse has been burning a hole in my pocket (perhaps it literally could . . .). It&#8217;s a pretty OK cocktail &#8212; sort of like the Ur or Platonic cocktail in that it just tastes like generalized &#8220;cocktail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Barflies and Cocktails<\/em> is really weird, by the way; very &#8220;23 Skiddoo&#8221; or whatnot. Lots of mixers and vermouthiness.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a drink in the 1927 book Barflies and Cocktails called &#8220;Warday&#8217;s Cocktail&#8221; (page 75), which is 1 teaspoon of yellow Chartreuse (I used green because I only have green), &#8220;1\/3 Italian Vermouth&#8221; &#8212; i.e., one ounce sweet vermouth, 1\/3 gin (read: one ounce gin) and 1\/3 calvados or Apple Jack (we used one ounce [&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":[220,219],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-barflies-and-cocktails","tag-chartruese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","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=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}