Congratulations to a Thirsty Lawyer Client

Congratulations to Thirsty Lawyer client, MX Digital on its gaming deal with Blues Brothers brand.  Great story in today's Hollywood Reporter.

Cocktail Deconstruction: The Brixton from PettyCash Taqueria

Have you wondered how to make at home that great cocktail they feature at your favorite watering hole.  Well you can -  or you can at least try.  In a new feature called Cocktail Deconstruction, Thirsty Lawyer is going to deconstruct that great cocktail made by your favorite mixologist and come up with a recipe you can follow at home.  Think how impressed your dinner guests will be.

Over the weekend Thirsty Lawyer went to PettyCash Taqueria (http://pettycashtaqueria.com/).  Aside from some seriously great food (charred octopus tacos - my life will never be the same!), PettyCash has a great cocktail program.  While most of their drinks are either tequila or mezcal focused, the stand out cocktail of the evening was the Brixton.  The cocktail menu describes the Brixton as follows:  gin, pablano sorbet, habanero, fresh lime, flaming green Chartreuse.  This is what it looked like when it showed up at our table.

File this one under "Absolutely Must Try At Home"!  Now granted, the pablano sorbet requires some advance preparation  (the Los Angeles Times, California Cookbook has a great recipe at http://recipes.latimes.com/recipe-poblano-sorbet/) but once that part is done, you are ready to go.

The Brixton.

Gin, preferably Plymouth -1.5 oz

Pablano Sorbet -1 oz

Fresh lime juice -1oz

Bittermens Hellfire Habanero Shrub - dash

Shake and serve on the rocks

Green Chartreuse - .5 oz set aflame in your favorite small, halved and hallowed out citrus fruit.

Jason Hervey (aka Brother Thirsty Lawyer) On Katie Couric

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Book Club and The Limiting Factor

Me and a friend - who also happens to be a fellow cocktail enthusiast - host a a semi regular (meaning, whenever the mood strikes us) pop-up cocktail hour.  We call it book club.  We work out a theme based on our guests (our first Book Club guests were all from the video game industry so our theme was sci-fi), choose a book (The Player of Games by Iain Banks) and then design a cocktail that ties it all together.  In this instance we designed a particularly delicious cocktail called The Limiting Factor (which also happens to be the name of a spacecraft in the book).  Its more of a cold weather cocktail - but it was particularly dreary in LA last weekend.

2 oz Balvenie 12 year sherry cask
.25 oz honey water
fresh squeezed half lemon
dash orange bitters
dash toasted pecan bitters
egg white
Shake vigorously and serve up.