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A few days ago Mark and I went to Surdyks, where I picked up a bunch of different bitters. I also put together a homemade grenadine, the cold process over at Cocktail Chronicles. I wanted to find something that used both the orange bitters I had picked up, and the grenadine. I found the R.A.F. cocktail.

2 parts gin (I used Tanqueray this time)
1 part sweet vermouth
1 part dry vermouth
dash of grenadine
dash of orange bitters

It was good. I had worried that it would be too much vermouth for a single drink, as I generally don’t like much vermouth at all. I was amazed by how much it blended. The sweet vermouth peaked out a little too much at the end, but that was probably due to it being the first time I’d mixed it.

I’m starting a big writing push tonight, so there will probably be more posted, as I take breaks from the fiction from time to time. I’ve had a few things I’d been meaning to post about.