Classic Cocktail Trend

I'm not sure if it's the fact that so many people love Mad Men, or simply a matter of what is old is new again - with a grapefruit twist? Classic Cocktails are the hip Summer Sip for 2011! I had just spoken to a few of my mixologist friends about cocktail trends, and great new signature cocktails for this summer event season, when I ran across this book I could not resist at the Pink Memo/Neiman Marcus Trend Event!

The recipies from the Vintage Cocktail book, and fabulous advice from my sip-savy friends, will keep you in high, trendy spirits all year long!
Trends:


•Continuation of classic recipes, pre-Prohibition drinks: Punches, Collins, Rickeys, Sours, Slings, etc....
•Spirits being consumed on the rocks, not just brown spirits but other spirits as well.
•Bartenders making their own bitters, tinctures and sodas to accompany well crafted drinks.
Gary Hayward, Brand Ambassador, Bombay Sapphire


•Cocktail popsicles (both alcoholic and non-alcoholic),
•Moonshine, white whiskey and daiquiris (not the frozen sweet ones)
•Aged rum
Carlos Yturria, bartender at Absinthe Brasserie & Bar, San Francisco


•Gin will be a highlight in the spring, using herbaceous and floral notes to highlight the season
•1930's-1950's cocktails, but moving in the direction of these lighter, brighter and versatile liquors.
•The summer focus will be on rhum agricoles and falernum, which is an almond, ginger, lime and spiced sugar syrup.
Monica Schafer, Restaurant General Manager, FIVE Bistro and Bar, Berkeley, CA