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It may sound girly at first, but there's nothing frou-frou about this seasonal, rye-based, culinary cocktail creation from Alex Smith, bar manager at Thirsty Bear Brewing Co. And if you only know Thirsty Bear for their beer, perhaps you should drop in for Cocktail Week, which kicks off Monday, or during SF Strawberry Week, starting next Thursday, for this inventive and potent potable.
Strawberry Rhubarb Manhazarac
2 oz Rittenhouse Rye 100º
1/2 oz Vya Sweet Vermouth
1 tsp organic Brown Sugar
1 Strawberry
fresh Rhubarb
3-4 dashes Peychaud's Bitters
Absinthe Rinse
Muddle sugar, strawberry, rhubarb & bitters. Add rye & vermouth then shake with ice. Double strain into absinthe-rinsed wineglass. Garnish w/ a coin of lemon zest. Created for SF Strawberry Week 2009 by Alex Smith for Thirsty Bear Brewing Co.
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Boulevard's Biscaccianti
The Globe Cocktail
DOSA's Batsman
Beretta's Jeepster
Cantina's Laughing Buddha
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This is another cocktail that bartenders will just love to make. Be sure to order six for you and your entire bachelorette party at 10:15pm when there's 10 people waiting for drinks.
Well played, Manys!
Let me also add for any males in the audience:
20. Drink one girly drink in public and you will forever be known as the guy who drinks girly drinks.
www.drunkard.com/issues/01-02/01_02_booze_rules.htm
and then pay with six different credit cards
If you only know Thirsty Bear for their beer, and you know beer, you'd never go there again. Thirsty Bear makes absolutely the worst beer in San Francisco, and possibly Northern California. All of their beers -- even including their "Polar Bear Pilsner" -- are cloying and heavy with residual sugars. You can feel the hangover come on as you drink them.
This baby-food concoction with its mismatched flavors, extra sugar added to its sweet fruit and syrupy ingredients, shows how their mixed drinks are composed with the same philosophy they bring to brewing.
The worst beer in SF is definitely San Francisco Brewing Company's. And it makes North Beach STINK.
Strawberry cocktails? No wonder ol' small hands can't hack it as a QB in the NFL.