Tuxedo No. 2 – Cocktail recipes
73 points by smartmic 9 hours ago | 18 comments
ianthehenry 4 hours ago
I like this website a lot and used it as the base recipe book for a program that will tell you what cocktails you can make with the ingredients you have, but also what cocktails you are “one ingredient away from.” https://github.com/ianthehenry/mixologician
replyIt’s a little datalog script - input is a text file, output is a text file. I’ve used it a few times to decide what to pick up at the store!
jnwatson 7 hours ago
I like cocktails. I like cocktail recipes. I don't know why this is on hacker news thought.
replychickensong 10 minutes ago
I feel the same, but it's an unavoidable cycle IMHO. Any subculture that becomes popular gets diluted by more average people, and the content becomes more basic and banal. You can flag and downvote, but eventually there are enough people who treat a platform like HN as a general discussion board, without regard for cultural alignment. It seems that stuff like politics and random recipes are on the rise, but it's not against the rules, so maybe it really is just a general discussion board that's evolving into the mainstream.
replystronglikedan 2 hours ago
> I don't know why this is on hacker news thought. (sic)
replyBecause someone posted it, and others upvoted it, and it got enough upvotes while it was new to get recognized by the algorithm and promoted to the front page. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle!
dsr_ 7 hours ago
There ought to be an XKCD for this, but instead it's from the FAQ.
replyIn short: somebody thought it was interesting enough to submit, and enough other people voted for it that it got to your attention.
That's it.
If it ends up with 2000 points and sits on the new page for 3 days, I'll be quite surprised, but strange subjects do that.
chongli 6 hours ago
I’m a big fan of the Webtender [1]. A super old school website without style sheets. Tons of information, nicely organized, and everything loads super quickly, as it should be!
replypimlottc 6 hours ago
There's a weird bug with the infinite scroll where the page width and/or column widths randomly change slightly when I hit the bottom of the page every once in a while
replybillfor 6 hours ago
A drink with bourbon and rye makes no sense imho. A rye is just bourbon with a higher percent of rye and less corn. You might as well call it blending your own whiskey.
replymoonka 4 hours ago
Highly suggest making an old fashioned flight to try it out. Choose your favorite bourbon (which has a corresponding rye), and make 3 old fashioned, 1 with only bourbon, 1 with only rye, and 1 with a 50:50 blend. You might be surprised which you prefer.
replyJamesSwift 6 hours ago
This is pretty common in rum drinks, especially tiki. Like you said, rye offers something unique separate from traditional “bourbon” and so the flavor profile of the end drink is different
replytransitorykris 2 hours ago
To bring that full circle, Fairmont (the hotel) does their house Old Fashioned using 50/50 rum and bourbon. I believe it was Mount Gay and Woodford.
replyCivBase 2 hours ago
It guarantees a minimum balance of corn and rye in the resulting blend. If you have a whiskey that you know has an appropriate mash bill (e.g. Rittenhouse BiB) then you could be boring and just use that. But there's also more to a whiskey than its mash bill. Blending different kinds can yield new and interesting flavors. And after all isn't that what cocktails are all about?
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https://tuxedono2.com/french-75-cocktail-recipe