11.06
So I (Michael) was in Denver for a big conference last week and went to a bar called the Double Daughter with some colleagues. While the overall vibe was fine, the cocktail list was an abomination. Really. The single worst cocktail list I have ever seen. Anywhere. Ever. I actually swiped a menu so I could blog about it.
Below are some selections to prove the point. Suffice it to say that I didn’t bother asking for proportions because who would want to make these things, much less drink them?
Severed Goat’s Head
- Svedka Vanilla
- Chocolate Liquour
- Raspberry Liquour
- Grenadine
Don’t you feel that the Grenadine is really gilding the lily?
Miss Beauregard
- Stoli Bluberi
- Svedka Vanilla
- Butterscotch Schnapps
- White Creme de Cocao [sic]
I’m really glad they specified the white Creme de Cacao. It’s this kind of attention to detail that makes all the difference.
Rojomotxo
- Red Wine
- Cola
- ers
I confess to needing some education here. I would assume that “ers” is an error if it weren’t for the fact that, after reading through the menu, all my notions about cocktails had been completely desecrated. And nothing else on the menu has so few ingredients. So I can only guess that this is some type of consumable liquid. Please enlighten me. I didn’t have the heart to ask the bartender.
Running of the Bulls
- Jaegermeister
- Red Bull
- Amaretto
- Coca-Cola
- Sprite
Coca-Cola, Sprite and Red Bull? Really?
There are more. Check their website (turn your speakers off first) to see some of them.
Now, I do want to give them some credit. There was a fine set of spirits behind the bar including a full set of Hangar One products. So after trying something called the “Father Rodier” (Clementine vodka, St. Germain and Lemonade…it was bad but not evil) we had the bartender make up a gimlet with Kaffir Lime vodka. It was splendid. So if you go the Double Daughter (and why not?) stay off the specialty cocktail menu. And have one of the fine bartenders mix you up a traditional cocktail with some of their top notch spirits.
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Mike,
on the Miss Beauregard replace the Stoli Bluberi with Orange Vodka and rim the glass with orange juice and dip it in a red sugar and you get a Candy Corn! Almost forgot, give it a shot of grenadine as a layer under the “White” creme de cocao.
And is that something I’d want to drink?
Maybe “ers” is supposed to be “Bitters?” By all that is holy, how is that place still open!?
Good thinking…that kind of subtlety didn’t occur to me (who can blame me?).