Cocktail of the Week – The Panacea
By RC Dean
This week’s libation is the Panacea, which is one of my favorite cold-weather drinks and the one Mrs. Dean “requests” when she is feeling under the weather. It’s made with a honey/ginger/lemon syrup, so it’s quite effective on a scratchy throat. If the first one doesn’t cure what ails ya, the second one will ensure you stop caring. Trigger warning: what with the honey, this is a sweet drink.
I know, I know, it’s one of those froofy artisanal drinks that you have to make the mixer yourself. Tough – the ingredients are universally available and it’s easy to make. I keep my Panacea syrup in an empty bourbon bottle, of which I am sure the Glibertariat will have an ample supply.
Panacea Mixer/Syrup:
Simmer in a small pot for 10 – 15 minutes (looking for a thickish syrup)
1 cup honey
1 cup water
½ cup minced or shredded ginger
Strain through a fine sieve, toss the ginger solids left behind. Stir in:
¾ cup lemon juice
Keep refrigerated. Pro-tip: put it in the fridge before your third refill to avoid unfortunate and very sticky accidents (no euphemism).
The Panacea
3 oz blended scotch (I like either Black Grouse or Dewar’s Scratched Cask)
2 – 3 oz. of Panacea Mixer (I go 2 oz., Mrs. Dean prefers 3 oz.)
Pour the blended scotch over rocks, add the Panacea Mixer, stir, and add a “lid” of smoky, smoky single malt (I’m an Islay guy for single malts). You can get a lid by angling a spoon upside down so the tip is just under the surface and slowly pouring a little of the single malt onto the back of the spoon so it floats on the drink itself. It gives the drink a smokier nose, and more of a scotch hit when you start guzzling. The lid is optional (Mrs. Dean prefers not).
This is a favorite with non-scotch drinkers, especially without the lid – the honey/ginger/lemon syrup does an excellent job of cutting the scotch flavor for those unfortunates who don’t recognize it as the drink of the gods. When I take a bottle of the syrup with me on cold-weather outings, it never lasts long.
Derpetologist’s Spot the Not: Translated Scientific Names
1. potato buffalo flamingo
2. the creature from the black lagoon
3. giant deformed penis
4. little chief nipple twister
5. itty bitty thing
6. Owen’s ninja turtle
Comments
147 responses to “Belly Up to the Bar”
No alt text, especially on the second one with the obvious “pictured: cocktail” pun? Son, I am disappoint.
Gonna say 2) is the Not.
seconded
My guess 3
The drink sounds good, thanks.
Yeah. I like the single malt float on top. That there is a proper cocktail.
I have only made cocktails that involve a shaker. I want to try this one. I am trying to get me sum cultur.
Mak it. Get outside your comfort zone. It sounds like a nice recipe, and the ladies eill think you’re a “mixologist”. ??????
Well, what do you prefer flavor wise? Some very simple ones that don’t need a shaker include the original Old Fashion:
Take a sugar cube, put 2-3 drops of bitters on it.
Add 2 oz. bourbon
Muddle the sugar cube into the bourbon
Add a maraschino cherry if you really need it.
Drink and enjoy.
Heading to the snowy peaks of Utah next weekend. Will definitely have to try the Panacea when I’m out there. Been in the 70s and sunny almost all winter here in the Panhandle, gonna need something to keep the cold away.
Where are you headed in Utah? There is some top shelf skiing there.
I spent 6 years haunting Snowbird and Alta.
Nice. My last ex-girlfriend was a Utah girl. Snowbird she took me to, I have never been to Alta, but heard good things.
I was too poor for Park City, and WAY too poor for Deer Valley. Still, top drawer skiing.
Ya, me too now. Skiing has gotten idiotic expensive.
Where are you headed in Utah? There is some top shelf skiing there.
Not really sure yet, meeting my buddies at some posh cabin up in the mountains and I don’t have the addy yet. Also I’m not much of a skier/snowboarder, but I’m a huge fan of getting drunk with old friends from college. So away I go!
That is always fun. Enjoy.
Thanks, man. Spent four years in CO but never learned how to do snow sports. Just always seemed like an expensive hobby.
Try cross country or back country skiing then if you want a great winter sports experience at a much more “reasonable” price point. XC is a workout while you are learning but once you get the technique basics down it is still a workout but much less anguish involved.
Plus you can take up biathlon to ski and shoot together.
My parents tried to take me cross country skiing as a kid, and there was nothing more terrible then that. It’s cold, you need to wear terrible clothes, and all you do is move your legs back and forth for multiple hours.
4) the only name that tells you what it does, rather than what it is.
Imma go with 4
I’ll say 4 as well.
And thanks for The Panacea. I’m not a scotch guy, so I think I’ll try it with bourbon, AKA; the drink of the gods.
2
One of the concoctions I quite enjoy:
glass with ice
squirt of bottled lemon juice
fifteen count gin
top off with some tonic water (diet, natch)
15 count? Wouldn’t it be easier to make 2 marks on the bottle?
See, that’s why I buy the handles. By the time you realize you’re pouring heavy, it’s lights out.
Since we are doing drink recipes.
SMOOTHEST SOUTHERN WHISKEY
Two pounds of corn sugar per gallon of water. 2 to 4 oz of yeast per ten gallon batch. Warm up part of the water only warm enough to disolve the corn sugar. Finish adding cool water to help cool down the mash to 80 degrees. Add yeast at 80 degrees and let ferment for 7 to 14 days and distill. This recipe has no foul after taste. It is smooth all the way through. More corn sugar can be added if you are using a Turbo yeast. You can order 50 lb sacks of corn sugar on the internet and it can also be purchased through bakerys, restaurant supplies and etc…
What is the “distill” step? Doesn’t that require some crazy plumbing contraption? Like in MASH?
I don’t advocate doing anything that may or may not be lawful in your particular jurisdiction.
That said, distilling isn’t particularly difficult. I know some old boys that live a little north of me who can barely read and write. They have managed to figure out the process. I bet you can too.
Ya, I am sure I could. I will probably go home brew beer before setting up a distilling operation. And I fully advocate doing anything that may not be lawful in ones particular jurisdiction. NAP approved of course.
4.
It was my nickname in college.
*Spins arrow* Right nipple blue, left nipple yellow. Nipple twister favors the older ladies.
Oh good, you’re here. There was a story out of Japan about a dude being crushed by his extensive collection of pr0n.
We were worried.
I saw that story, but it said the dude was 50. I didn’t think sraffin was that old. And it didn’t mention multiple pairs of rubber shoes.
50 is not that old.
I’m 51. I feel pretty fucking old. I wasn’t trying to imply that is old to everyone. I just assumed straffin was younger than me.
Straffin’s been there since World War numero dos. That’s right, he’s pushing centennial.
I’m turning 50 this year and I agree with you. I don’t really give a fuck, but it sure was nice to heal fast, wasn’t it?
No wonder he is always hitting on his mother in law. Ok, I was not putting that all together.
but it sure was nice to heal fast, wasn’t it?
Yes. It is getting ridiculous at this point.
I’m late 40’s. The bad puns are my tell.
Just take care of your joints — it ain’t any fun getting them replaced once … or twice.
Just take care of your joints
A little late for that.
I’m late 40’s. The bad puns are my tell.
Old enough for oyaji gyagu?
25 and my knee is shot.
One really bad ski racing accident will do that.
50 is not that old.
I went hiking with dad today. His idea, we used to run but it gives me shin splints. He lives up in the foothills, and his upper deck opens out onto the cliffside, so we can get right into the hike. Not a big problem for either of us, although we’re both a little out of shape. A good three hours hiking up toward south Sandia peak, not that we got anywhere close, but a lot of that was hunting for decent paths up the rocks. Managed to plant my hand in cactus when I slipped on some months-old snow pack. Watched a paraglider circle around the entire time. Seems like loads of fun. Anyway, his knees hurt for awhile on the descent and my ankle was giving me issues, but all in all it was a satisfying hike. He’s 57, I just turned 30. My dad is not old. He’s hitting his prime.
When my father was 70 he was still spending the day carrying a chainsaw, 2 gallon water jug, machete, backpack (20 lbs), and his lunch. He could spend all day in the woods cutting trees, hiking, chopping vines and brush with the machete, etc. He could tend about 1.5 acres in a day (cut out sweet gums, ironwoods, elderberry, remove honeysuckle and saw briar from oak tops). He has since become diabetic and cant come close to that anymore, but he can still cover a few miles just hiking.
I am not aging as well. I am not able to go that long and I am 20 years younger than he is.
Genetics is a bitch. But I think Gary Taubes has some worthwhile knowledge you could find interesting. Watch his google talk video. It’s brilliant.
I play hockey with a dude who is 72. He’s out there with guys in their 20s. My dad, 74, just got back from a trip to Argentina. Before he got a new knee, he played basketball three times a week. Now, it’s just once or twice.
Yes, some aspects of being older sucks, but the physical challenges are kind of fun.
I have a library of porn that makes Alexandria look like a book mobile. It’s a mental library, so the only thing it crushes is my soul.
You can differentiate between all them Asian broads?
I thought she was you, honey. It’s not my fault.
I did in fact get away with this once. Kinda. I’m not proud of it. But I told her I’d gotten so plastered with my roommate that I didn’t realize she wasn’t my girlfriend.
That actually looks very similar to a recipe I’ve got for home made ginger ale (minus the yeast and fermentation of course). Have you tried replacing half the lemon juice with lime juice?
No. I find that lemon and lime really don’t substitute in cocktails. I haven’t tried on this one; give it ago and let us know how it turns out.
Will do, it’s not a matter of lemon and lime as substitutes, as much as they are accents for ginger.
Scientific names of what? STDs? Politicians?
Yes?
Watch Polish politician serve up a meatball to a feminist. Guess girls can’t hit, either.” How do you whiff on that?
lol. Can’t even tell if that guy is serious because he deadpans it so well. But that was some grade-A triggering. 10/10 would laugh again.
I’m gonna assume you were joking when you said Shibuya prefecture.
Of course. The girls there are undoubtedly too thin for HM’s taste. Japanese girls are not known for having booty.
I meant Shibuya is not a prefecture. It’s in Tokyo-to (prefecture).
Ah. That phrase still generates a shit ton of hits on Google, and I’ve definitely heard it referred to that way. Obviously I don’t live there, so I had no idea.
It’s cool. I ask kids here to name three U.S. states and I get, “California, Miami and Los Angeles.”
Nigata, please!
Looks like everyone was getting a good laugh out of it.
Dallas painter publishes book.
Why does it look like everyone on the cover had a stroke? Did W get a 60 mil advance for that like another ex pres?
1) Whiskey
2) ice cube*
*optional
repeat until horizontal
No that is my kind of cocktail. In fact, I’m on #2 right now
Surely this was brought up by someone, but I think Uber skating around regulators to be an awesome thing.
I’d be much happier with them if they didn’t willingly cooperate with the authorities when they thought it made them look good (see: Their willing participation in sex trafficking hysteria)
While I agree, there may be a bit of hysteria about the level of human trafficking (at least in the states), was the case where the Uber dude called in the people selling the 16 year old girl a hoax? (that is an honest question, I thought it was the real deal) I don’t think having a company policy of encouraging their contractors to be aware of assholes taking advantage of minors as such a bad thing.
If your point is they pick and choose how they cooperate, I guess I can see that.
I’m probably more pro-religion than 99+ % of agnostics but sometimes I lose my tolerance for so-called Christian morality.
“accidentally became pregnant ”
I totally tripped and fell on that dick and bounced several times.
To be fair, condoms break.
I know man, those magnums just aren’t big enough.
It seems like becoming a single parent while in divinity school should result in an automatic F.
On the Letterman’s jacket!
What do Episcopalians have to do with Christianity?
Mmmmm, divinity.
Hello, hello, hello. Is there anybody out there? Just nod if you can hear me. Wait, uh, actually you may want to type that.
That seems awfully disrespectful and I have to question whether those hoes agreed to that treatment at all.
Tea bag may be the movement, but
GREASE IS THE WORD!
WORD UP!
DETACHABLE PENIS!
I feel a little thicc.
The word is in Spanish.
I’m out here but just got home from bar and getting ready to crash.
Started out the evening with this which I highly recommend.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/45/184617/
*Nods as if I can hear him*
Yeah, I am here straffin but worn the fuck out. I have been standing in front of a table saw all day. Plus I just took an ambien so I will probably last another ten minutes and you probably dont want to hear the wierdo shit I say when I am floating on an ambien. Oh, wait, the weird shit is when I am not on an ambien, so it would be worse.
Just so long as you don’t stand in front of a table saw while you’re on ambien.
No; we do want to hear your weirdo shit.
It can’t be as weird as Agile.
Why are my post timestamps not EST? What sort of devil witchcraft is this!
Bro, don’t you even CST?!
I live in EST, but I self identify as a person who lives in MST. Use of CST is offensive.
CST is for commoners. I feel dirty.
Quit othering me, slavers!
“You know how many timezones there are in the Soviet Union?“
WTF did I just watch?
It should all be in UTC.
Can I propose a new Iron Rule?
If something in the realm of human activity, no matter how horrible, persists then someone is benefiting from it. And they will do everything in their power to keep it going.
You know who else enabled horrible human activity?
This website’s founders?
People who take their kids to the airport for travel wearing those shoes with the skates in the bottom?
Jim Jones?
Joe Paterno?
If I admit and atone it wii cost me my throne.
So, I heard the new Zelda game is pretty much an open-world survival sandbox:
That gif will always be Mike M reacting to the news of Obama’s election.
YOU LIE!
*tries to speak through sobs, fails*
Of all the things HM has linked to, and or posted that was disturbing, this GIF is the worst.
Indeed. What is the true story behind that gif?
Anybody? Bueller?
The election of orange hitler. I remember it. Idiot looked at the camera to make sure they were still filming him/her.
Holy shit! That’s a woman!
http://www.itv.com/news/2017-01-20/protester-who-screamed-at-trumps-inauguration-this-is-not-america/
Was this moron hoping for a last second assassination? I mean, what was with the “prayerful” pose? The derp is strong with this one
And, like most GIFs substituting for video, an unfunny waste of bandwidth.
WRONG!
…
In this case, at least.
Primal Scream better not cover that.
Viva Spiderman!
“What do we do?” “When he swings down throw the vibrator at him.”
Unmask him! Unmask him!
For no reason: Raquel Welch as Linda Ronstadt: Different Drum
So when do we get the answer for the not? I went number three, giant deformed penis, due to the picture across the page of penis shaped habenero peppers. But my choice may have been influenced by the fur friday post.
When you shuffle off your mortal coil. Will you dream? Just sleep? If you knew the answer you’d have to become a determinist.
That is a little deep for 1006 pm in the proper time zone. And you made me search the meaning of determinist. I have no answer.
Columbines were the symbol of ingratitude. Now I understand the slaughter.
Middlebury College SJWs give respectful treatment to Charles Murray…just kidding
These two sentences say it all:
what’s shameful here is not that these people resort to such absurd rhetorical contortions – but rather that the average college-graduate these days would be unable to tell you exactly what was wrong with question-begging gibberish like the below =
Notice the magic trick where an assertion in one sentence is treated as already-proven in the next
97% of his colleagues have a consensus! You can’t debate something that’s settled, obviously, what would be the point?
(/s – just in case)
That is disgusting. Mob mentality at its finest.
1 is the Not. That is a creature I made up when I was 12. It’s a cross between a potato, a buffalo, and a flamingo called a potuffalomingo.
The name amorphophallus titania (giant deformed penis) is the scientific name of the corpse blossom, a tropical plant that emits an overpowering stench when it blooms.
I saw it listed as the active ingredient in a a weight loss medicine commercial a few years ago. I laughed.
Which one is Black Lagoon?
from wiki:
I have to ask, what are the others?
While I normally detest Krauthammer
/virtuesignal
he seems to have dug deep and written a pretty cool article for IBD:
http://www.investors.com/politics/columnists/charles-krauthammer-revolt-of-the-attorneys-general/
I like Krauthammer. He is one of a handful of opinion journalists that seems like he has more than two brain cells to rub together. Even when I disagree with him, he doesn’t come off as somebody regurgitating party talking points, he capable of generating original thoughts of his own. Ditto Camille Paglia, but with the word genders swapped, although I doubt she would care. She’s got a brass pair on her.
Let’s put it this way, if I got stuck on celebrity Jeopardy with Wolf Blitzer and Shep Smith, I think I could beat them easily. Against Krauthammer and Paglia, I might have a shot if I got lucky with the Daily Doubles, but other than that, I’d be screwed.
I’m cooking up some sourdough this morning. The first loaves I made from this starter sucked, primarily because I rushed it, but also because I didn’t use enough starter or salt. I tried a bite of dough today before sticking it into the oven, and these ones are gonna be a ton better. I just minced up a bunch of garlic and folded it into the second one, so I hope it makes a good garlic bread.
Tap the Trump
My new gf introduced me to Vesper martinis, which I am enjoying.
http://www.jamesbondlifestyle.com/product/vesper-martini
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/03/07/comey-drops-out-sxsw/98846020/