I picked up some Kirschwasser at Calvert Woodley the other day. I feel like a kid with a brand new toy.
This is the one I purchased. However, this is not my hand. Thanks Google Images!
Kirschwasser is a clear fruit brandy made from the double distillation of morellos, a dark and sour cherry. It's fermented complete - stones, pits, everything and all. The difference between Kirschwasser (simply referred to as "Kirsch". I prefer the ungainly version because I'm writing it and don't have to pronounce it repeatedly) and other cherry brandies or liqueurs is that this one isn't sweet (so it's an eaux de vie). It's traditionally served in drinks or as an aperitif, served neat and cold (or at room temperature) to be warmed by the hands. You can bake with it too; many German and Swiss cakes and candies call for it. Fondue calls for it as well. I choose to drink with it.
Rose (French)
- 3/4 oz dry vermouth
- 1/4 oz Kirschwasser
- 3/4 oz gin
- dash Grenadine
Stir in a mixing glass filled with ice, and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. This actually tastes like rosewater or rosehips to me. Most girls will likely get the reference. For boys and anyone who doesn't: it smells and tastes like the funny rose-shaped bathsoaps in your grandma's bathroom. This doesn't mean it tastes like perfume or soap (it doesn't), but it's that very floral, aromatic, and sweet taste that makes me think of old ladies playing bridge. While drinking gin.
God loves a cheerful giver.
Danielle,
A couple other drinks with Kirsch are the Eton Blazer, after the English public school (just ask Fritz - he knows about everything British).
1.5oz PLymouth gin
1/2 oz Kirsch
1/2 oz of powdered sugar (or substitute 3/4 oz or so of simple syrup)
Juice of a lemon
Shake with ice, strain into a Collins or double rocks glass and fill with soda water
Also, the original Straits Sling, precursor to the Singapore Sling, also incorporates quite a bit of kirsch. Highly recommended.
2oz gin
0.5oz kirsch
0.5oz Benedictine
1/2 lemon
2d orange bitters
2d angostura bitters
Shake with ice, pour into a sour or champagne glass and top with soda water. garnish with a maraschino cherry
N.
Good lord does that thumb belong to Sissy Hankshaw?
this one looks kinda gross.
i would have put a 'hand disclaimer' in there, too. she has a case of hobbit thumb.
i hate comment delay. the end.
I liked this one... it did taste very "floral," but it wasn't bad.
What a bunch of cuntibollocks pretentious crap this column became. Time you quit that cantibolllocks fancy bullshit, miss, and give us the business. What we wish to know is what the real folks, the folks who work for a living drink? I stress ’work’, Daniella. Yes, literally.
hahaha....I really am not sure what you're saying Ernest, but I'm assuming you want me to showcase manlier drinks? something to put hair on your chest? Gorilla Farts, perhaps?
and I think folks who work for a living drink straight whiskey. or I think they should, anyways. who here works for a living and drinks cocktails? what do you drink?
Precisely! Straight up and it better be double!!
I would steer clear from those Gorilla Farts if I were you, Daniella. Hahaha... gorilla farts.. hahaha... You really are the limit.
hay Danielle
