{"id":98,"date":"2015-02-16T19:49:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T00:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/?p=98"},"modified":"2015-02-16T20:54:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T01:54:52","slug":"blood-and-sand-cherry-liqueur-cont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/2015\/02\/16\/blood-and-sand-cherry-liqueur-cont\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Sand (Cherry Liqueur, Cont.)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too lazy to flip through the Mr. Boston for whiskey recipes that use Cherry Heering so I googled it. Found <a href=\"http:\/\/imbibemagazine.com\/recipe-blood-and-sand\/\">this recipe for a Blood and Sand<\/a>: 1 ounce blended Scotch, 1 ounce orange juice and 3\/4 ounce Cherry Heering. It was good but wanted it more boozy (perhaps that&#8217;s because of using the lower alcohol Nalewka Lwowecka). As a rule I avoid orange juice because alcohol and orange juice reminds me of a screwdriver, but this was definitely not too orange-y. For what it&#8217;s worth, I used Grant scotch, which isn&#8217;t the cheapest one on the bottom shelf, but it&#8217;s close. The bottle does have a charming triangular shape that I like to think is somehow space saving. I haven&#8217;t found a cheap go-to blended scotch mixer &#8212; part of it may be my ideas about what constitutes &#8220;cheap&#8221;; my go-to cheap bourbon has been Evan Williams and cheap mezcal has been that thing with the gnarly worm . . . [googling] . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevmo.com\/Shop\/ProductDetail.aspx\/Spirits\/Tequila\/Monte-Alban\/Monte-Alban-Mezcal\/487\">Monte Alban<\/a>. Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/cocktails.about.com\/od\/liqueurscordials\/fl\/Cherry-Heering-Profile-and-Cocktails.htm\">About.com some more recipes<\/a> that look good; also, seems like there are variations on Blood and Sand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too lazy to flip through the Mr. Boston for whiskey recipes that use Cherry Heering so I googled it. Found this recipe for a Blood and Sand: 1 ounce blended Scotch, 1 ounce orange juice and 3\/4 ounce Cherry Heering. It was good but wanted it more boozy (perhaps that&#8217;s because of using the lower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cocktails","tag-nalewka-lwowecka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","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=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/clink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}