{"id":431,"date":"2017-04-21T00:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=431"},"modified":"2017-04-21T00:28:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T04:28:52","slug":"in-which-the-smarter-among-us-figures-out-what-we-drank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2017\/04\/21\/in-which-the-smarter-among-us-figures-out-what-we-drank\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which The Smarter Among Us Figures Out What We Drank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(In other words, not me.) We tried <a href=\"https:\/\/tlwastoria.com\/menus\/cocktails\/\">this drink called the Perique Swizzle at this cocktail place nearby<\/a> which was interesting and good (interesting *and* good is always good), then tried to replicate it at home: two ounces rum, 1.5 ounce mezcal, .5 ounce falernum, .5 ounce amaro (they used sfumato rabarbaro; we tried both cynar and amaro ciociaro, the latter being better), a pinch of salt and some crushed mint leaves. As the name evokes, the original was a variation on a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rum_Swizzle\">swizzle<\/a>, which is Caribbean using rum, falernum and juices. Go easy on the salt: the bartender at the Last Word called it a &#8220;salt brine&#8221; and indeed there&#8217;s a thin line between delicate oyster liquor and a snoutful of Labor Day surf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(In other words, not me.) We tried this drink called the Perique Swizzle at this cocktail place nearby which was interesting and good (interesting *and* good is always good), then tried to replicate it at home: two ounces rum, 1.5 ounce mezcal, .5 ounce falernum, .5 ounce amaro (they used sfumato rabarbaro; we tried both [&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":[143,244,232,233,168],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-amaro-ciociaro","tag-bootleg-recipes","tag-falernum","tag-mezcal","tag-rum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","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=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}