EEEEE!
For your whiskey!! I mean, bourbon, Bourbon people!
and now let's take a moment to hold our glasses up to toast the man, Elmer T. Lee, master distiller, who passed yesterday at the age of 93. Elmer T Lee is my favorite whiskey. It is just simply delicious and I don't need to explain why.
Last night in discussion of Elmer T Lee at Arcadium, Sean is telling us how Elmer T Lee introduced Blanton's to the world (in 1984). I mention that the distillery should come up with a 93 proof bourbon in Elmer's honor as Sean picks up the bottle of Blanton's and notices that Blanton's is actually 93 proof!! coincidence?!
Ok, so there was garden mentioned in the title of this post. It's summer, a lot of people switch to gin in the summer, which is great, gin is good. But that is no reason to forgo your bourbon just cause it's dark and seems more inclined to the cold of winter. Make it fresh, give it a little greenery!
to this, I scream, BASIL!!
easy peasy!
Basil leaf, give it a twist and drop it in your bourbon neat. Delicious and subtle!
expand the concept!
Basil leaf
ginger beer
bourbon
club soda
tall glass and ice
tall glass and ice, twist a couple of basil leaves over the glass and drop in. pour bourbon over, add splash of spice ginger beer and fill remaining space in tall glass to 2/3rds full with club soda.
Add colorful straw
slurp!
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