"Sea Wall Gimlet | Crafted Pour"

"The word “boring” sometimes creeps into my mind when I’m shooting my cocktail pictures. Like yeah here it’s another drink by my plants. So this cocktail came about from trying to think of where I could get a really cool and interesting shot, and I thought of the sea wall by my house, and then got to the business of how do I make a drink that embodies the sea. I reached deep into my credenza to pull out the bottle of Magellan Gin that I had relegated over a year ago to the depths of “I’m not touching this” and decided to give it another shot, and boy am I glad I did! In a world full of comfortable Empresses sometimes you just need to explore a little more. So I shook up this cocktail and strained it into a bottle, knowing I would feed most of it to the sea (and possibly get an open container charge) grabbed my coupe, lime wheel, and bottled Sea Wall Gimlet and drove down to get this, well, absolutely beautiful picture and boy was it worth it. As for the drink, it was deliciously balanced, the cinnamon and gin (clove notes amongst the irris) mixed with the touch of coconut, a tiny whisper of funk underneath pushing this into a complex but seaworthy sipper. (I declined to dump a shit ton of saline solution in here though I did consider it.) My mom joined me for this 7 am photography adventure and once I finished shooting we raised the glass to all the mixological explorers out there and as an apology to an actually decent gin for swearing it off those long ago days when I didn’t really know the difference between juniper and lavender. Here’s to exploration, craft cocktails, and to a potentially short series of “have coupe, will travel”", "undefined", "Sea Wall Gimlet",

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Sea Wall Gimlet By , May 8, 2009 The word “boring” sometimes creeps into my mind when I’m shooting my cocktail pictures. Like yeah here it’s another drink by my plants. So this cocktail came about from trying to think of where I could get a really cool and interesting shot, and I thought of the sea wall by my house, and then got to the business of how do I make a drink that embodies the sea. I reached deep into my credenza to pull out the bottle of Magellan Gin that I had relegated over a year ago to the depths of “I’m not touching this” and decided to give it another shot, and boy am I glad I did! In a world full of comfortable Empresses sometimes you just need to explore a little more. So I shook up this cocktail and strained it into a bottle, knowing I would feed most of it to the sea (and possibly get an open container charge) grabbed my coupe, lime wheel, and bottled Sea Wall Gimlet and drove down to get this, well, absolutely beautiful picture and boy was it worth it. As for the drink, it was deliciously balanced, the cinnamon and gin (clove notes amongst the irris) mixed with the touch of coconut, a tiny whisper of funk underneath pushing this into a complex but seaworthy sipper. (I declined to dump a shit ton of saline solution in here though I did consider it.) My mom joined me for this 7 am photography adventure and once I finished shooting we raised the glass to all the mixological explorers out there and as an apology to an actually decent gin for swearing it off those long ago days when I didn’t really know the difference between juniper and lavender. Here’s to exploration, craft cocktails, and to a potentially short series of “have coupe, will travel” The word “boring” sometimes creeps into my mind when I’m shooting my cocktail pictures. Like yeah here it’s another drink by my plants. So this cocktail came about from trying to think of where I could get a really cool and interesting shot, and I thought of the sea wall by my house, and then got to the business of how do I make a drink that embodies the sea. I reached deep into my credenza to pull out the bottle of Magellan Gin that I had relegated over a year ago to the depths of “I’m not touching this” and decided to give it another shot, and boy am I glad I did! In a world full of comfortable Empresses sometimes you just need to explore a little more. So I shook up this cocktail and strained it into a bottle, knowing I would feed most of it to the sea (and possibly get an open container charge) grabbed my coupe, lime wheel, and bottled Sea Wall Gimlet and drove down to get this, well, absolutely beautiful picture and boy was it worth it. As for the drink, it was deliciously balanced, the cinnamon and gin (clove notes amongst the irris) mixed with the touch of coconut, a tiny whisper of funk underneath pushing this into a complex but seaworthy sipper. (I declined to dump a shit ton of saline solution in here though I did consider it.) My mom joined me for this 7 am photography adventure and once I finished shooting we raised the glass to all the mixological explorers out there and as an apology to an actually decent gin for swearing it off those long ago days when I didn’t really know the difference between juniper and lavender. Here’s to exploration, craft cocktails, and to a potentially short series of “have coupe, will travel” Ingredients: - Magellan Gin - Shipwreck Coconut Rum Instructions: Add all ingredients to a shaker tin with ice and shake well. Double strain into a chilled coupe glass Originals,Tropical,Refreshing,Gimlet