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Weekly Cocktail #58: Embury’s Larchmont
Well, summer is “over”, at least in the family sense. Kids are back in school, work cranks up, and the holidays are already an insidious little whisper in your ear. So it starts again. Good thing...
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The Viveka Cocktail And Homemade Limoncello
The Viveka Cocktail. Many months ago we asked for our readers to guess the location of a photo we took in Kauai. The winner would get a cocktail named after them. The winner was our friend Viveka from...
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Weekly Cocktail #59: The Honeymoon…..And The Annulment
The Honeymoon Cocktail. Fall is here and it is time to get back to our weekly cocktails. And when we think autumn cocktails, we tend to look towards apples and Applejack, America’s apple brandy. We are...
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Mixology Monday LXXVIII Announcement: Intercontinental
Time for this month’s Mixology Monday. And guess what? We are hosting here at the farm. Let’s get right to the theme: Everywhere we travel these days we see cocktails on the menu. And not just here in...
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Mixology Monday “Intercontinental” Cocktail #1: The Horn Of Good Hope
Horn of Good Hope Cocktail. Ah, another Mixology Monday, always good fun and a nice little prod to keep us from becoming lazier lazy drinkers. And this month we can’t be lazy at all, since we are...
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Mixology Monday “Intercontinental” Cocktail #2: Two Trios
Two Trios Cocktail. Lots of cocktails at the farm these days (well, sort of, more reading and shopping than actual drinking, but such is life). We may just need to change the name to Putney Tavern...
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Mixology Monday LXXVIII Roundup: Intercontinental
Time of the Saison cocktail. Another Mixology Monday has come and gone, so now it is time for the roundup. Our theme was “Intercontinental” and the goal was to mix a cocktail, or cocktails, that have...
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Weekly Cocktail #60: The Stone 75
The Stone 75 Cocktail. Ah, cocktails. Just when you think you’ve had enough….they pull you back in. And in this case, “had enough” meant that we recently hosted Mixology Monday and had seen our fill of...
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Mixology Monday LXXIX Cocktail: Silver And Green
It’s Mixology Monday time again. It seems like it just happened, but since we hosted, our mixology “workload” was a bit higher than normal. But just as we thought of slacking, we saw the new theme...
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A Gift Guide For The Home Cocktail Enthusiast
So let’s say you have a friend or family member who is into mixing cocktails. And let’s go a bit further and say they are worthy of a gift. What should you get them? Well, we guess you could get them a...
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Mixology Monday LXXX Cocktail: The Royal Sazerac
The Royal Sazerac cocktail. Yes, it’s Tuesday. But it was Mixology Monday, and we did make a cocktail. Let’s hope Nick at the Straight Up blog (worth a regular visit, btw) will show some Christmas...
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Mixology Monday LXXXI Cocktail: The Other Anejo Highball
Mixology Monday is back again. And not a moment to soon. We have some resolutions that need breaking….(who are we kidding, they are long gone). Anyway, here is the theme from the excellent food, booze...
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Mixology Monday LXXXII: The Hanalei Sour
Mixology Monday time again! And not a moment too soon. We were getting a bit one-dimensional with our cocktails here at the farm (playing with Old Fashioned variants mostly), so it is always good to...
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Mixology Monday LXXXIII Cocktail: Winter’s Last Gasp
It’s time for another Mixology Monday! Well, actually we are a week early. But it is St. Patrick’s Day, so may as well do a cocktail post. To be honest, we are not big fans of “drinking holidays” (we...
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Weekly Cocktail #61: The Putney Farm Mint Julep
Well, it has been a while since our last weekly cocktail post. But the weeks keep coming, so we may as well get things restarted. After all, spring is the season of renewal. And we have just the drink...
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Weekly Cocktail #62: The Kentucky Monk (And The Kentucky Buck)
Hmm…I guess we should start calling these “monthly” cocktails. Anyway, things keep moving here at the farm. And times are good. A California horse won the Kentucky Derby, all while we were sipping one...
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‘Cue, Cocktails And Cake For Memorial Day
Ah, summer. You can feel it coming (here in Norcal, it barely left). But for the rest of the country, we gather that this summer will be particularly welcome. Now, we all know that summer isn’t...
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Monthly Cocktail #1: The Midnight Daiquiri
Happy Tuesday! And we choose to celebrate this auspicious day with something new, the “Monthly” cocktail feature. It was weekly, but we were having a hard time keeping up. So “Monthly” it is… In any...
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Mixology Monday LXXXVI Cocktail: The Nuevo Presidente
Ah, just when we started slowing down on cocktail posts, it’s Mixology Monday again. Just another excuse to keep mixing drinks. Such is life…..and life is good. This month, the theme comes from Thiago...
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Monthly Cocktail #2: The Case For A True Mai-Tai
The Putney Farm crew recently returned from a delightful trip to Kauai. All good, nothing to complain about…but, maybe…um…there was one little thing. And it has to do with the classic Tiki drink, the...
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Bonus Cocktail: The Fourth Degree
How do you know when you have officially become a cocktail geek? (Besides, you know…blogging about them.) Well, there are a few signs; multiple bottles of bitters, obsession with vintage glassware, too...
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Monthly Cocktail #3: The Bramble
Here in California our endless summer drought? continues. But elsewhere we assume that fall is coming. With that in mind, we tend to think of “last gasp of summer” types of cocktails, and that usually...
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Mixology Monday LXXXIX Cocktail: The Improved Stinger
It seems like the equinox is a very good time for Mixology Monday. Why? Not really sure, but new seasons are a time of transition and always prod us to try new things. And, with ever-so-perfect-timing,...
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Mixology Monday XC Cocktail: The Barrel-Aged Vieux Carre’
Wow, time flies. Between a delightful trip back east and going to Giants playoff games, it has been a month since our last post (yes, we are slacking). Giants baseball seems to do this to us every even...
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Mixology Monday XCII Cocktail: Persephone
Wow, its been a while since our last post. And we have some good reasons for that…we will fill everyone in over the next few months. Let’s just say that our interest in cocktails is going to a whole...
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Mixology Monday XCIII Cocktail: The Beautiful Corpse
Time for another Mixology Monday! And it’s a good thing too, as the monthly online cocktail party always gives us an excuse to play with booze (not that we need an excuse). This month’s theme is “blue”...
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The Cask-Strength Bourbon Old Fashioned
A funny thing often happens when you “go deep” into a subject, you often find yourself back at the beginning. And that is certainly true when you get into cocktails. You may play with tiki, sours,...
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Citrus Cordials (Go Make A Gimlet)
One of the great, ongoing arguments of cocktail geekery concerns the classic Gimlet. You see, some folks say a Gimlet is just Rose’s Lime Juice (originally Rose’s Lime Cordial) and gin. Other folks say...
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MxMo XCVII Cocktail: The Perfectly Perfect Manhattan
Time again for Mixology Monday! Let’s get right to the booze. This month’s theme is from our fearless leader, Fred Yarm of Cocktail Virgin Slut is “I’ll Take Manhattan”. Thanks again to Fred for...
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Mixology Monday XCVIII Announcement: “Hometown Hooch”
Happy Monday! We here at the farm are proudly hosting another Mixology Monday, the awesome online cocktail party. Here is this month’s theme, the due date is EOD 6/15 (but we tend to be a bit flexible...
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Mixology Monday XCVIII Cocktail: Abeilles et Lavande
Since we are hosting Mixology Monday (and don’t worry, the due date is 6/15) we thought we should post a few cocktails for our “Hometown Hooch” theme over the next few days- this is our first. Here is...
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Mixology Monday VCVIII Cocktail: Wunderlich Park
Yes it’s Tuesday, but we drank this on Monday and we are hosting Mixology Monday this month so we get a little slack. Besides, a good drink is worth waiting for….who needs to be on time? Anyway, here...
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Mixology Monday XCVIII Roundup: Hometown Hooch
Time for our roundup of truly awesome cocktails from this month’s Mixology Monday. We had the pleasure of hosting and our theme was “Hometown Hooch”. If you want more info on the theme, see here. But,...
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A Cocktail Experiment With Ash Apothecary Flavored Syrups
Full disclosure; cocktail-oriented folks send us all sorts of cool spirits, bitters, flavorings and gear to try out here at the farm. We make no promises, but if we like an ingredient or tool we...
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Mixology Monday XCIX Cocktail: The Reef Pass
We had to laugh out loud when we saw this month’s Mixology Monday theme was “Ice” (kindly hosted by our friend the Muse of Doom at the excellent Feu de Vie Blog). You see, as our bar/restaurant Timber...
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Mixology Monday C Cocktail: The Hoffman House
Wow, 100 Mixology Mondays. In this day and age of instant online popularity and even faster irrelevance, a hundred of anything seems significant. And one hundred global online cocktail parties is even...
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So We Opened A Bar And Restaurant….
….it’s called Timber & Salt. It’s in Redwood City California (a very cool town). We serve craft cocktails and artisan comfort foods with fresh seasonal ingredients (sound familiar?). We have a...
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Mixology Monday LXXVI Cocktail: Special-Ti’
Special-Ti’ Cocktail. Time for another Mixology Monday, the monthly online cocktail party. Let’s start with thanks to Fred Yarm at Cocktail Virgin Slut for keeping the party going and to this month’s...
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Timber & Salt Year 3: Finally (Really) Using the Garden / Farm
Hi there. We are “back” after a long, work-induced pause in our blogging. We are planning to blog again more regularly and hopefully post new things from the farm and some “greatest hits” from our...
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Timber & Salt Greatest Hits: The Flora Cocktail
This is blog #1 of what we hope will be a regular feature, sharing some of our most popular cocktail and food recipes from our restaurant, Timber & Salt in Redwood City California. And, of course,...
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