🌌 Cocktail Constellations
Patterns, Not Rules
As we make cocktails, we'll start to grasp on a pattern only to have it twist and turn on us. There are no hard rules, no formulas, and no absolutes.
Cocktails have been developed, bottom up so we shouldnt expect a neat taxonomy.
Taste like smell, is incredibly subjective. Any drinker will know the experience of ordering the same drink two different places and having two different experiences. Hell, you might make the same drink twice and have two different experiences.
Brian Eno captured this sense of unmoored subjectivity is his essay Sense and Sensibility.
We move from Decarete's picture of the world as a machine to a world as a language-play by Wittgenstein.
In this world, we want to share the generative patterns that others have provided us.
Constellations
Death & Co.: Cocktail Codex
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Sour-Fizz-Daisy
There are three constellations of cocktails that are tightly connected the sours, daisies, and fizzes.
Each of these constellations are made of spirit, citrus, and sweetener.
The sours are made of spirit, citrus, and sweetener as sugar, usually in the form of a syrup for ease in mixing. An egg white is sometimes added.
The fizzes are the same, spirit, citrus, and sugar, plus seltzer. Yea, egg whites still come up here too.
The daisies are made of spirit, citrus, and sweetener as liqueur and sugar and sometimes seltzer.
Sour-Fizz-Daisy: An Example
- Whiskey Sour - bourbon, lemon, sugar
- Imperial (Whiskey) Fizz - bourbon, lemon, sugar, soda
- Whiskey Daisy - bourbon, lemon, grenadine (sugar), orange liqueur
All The Constellations
References
🍹 Cocktails
Sip consciously, play with your senses
These empowering patterns I call Cocktail Constellations and as I learn more, I'll add more. Then we can all create our own signature cocktails.
🍓 Fruit Season
Simple summer cocktail, use any fruit
🍹 Cocktails
This cocktail is a small cocktail constellation in itself. Use this following formula with any fruit that's in season.