Saturday, March 8, 2014

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.



For the November club - The Player of Games by Iain Banks, featuring the Limiting Factor, a variation of the Bellamy Scotch Sour