Splitting The Halves http://www.kincke.com MK Ultra Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:02:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 All’s Well http://www.kincke.com/alls-well http://www.kincke.com/alls-well#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:01:37 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=200 Breathing again.  Good to know that I can.  I’m on to some new shit y’all.  Yes, things have been changing a lot lately, expect and demand them to change more.  I need the vibes.  Movement will move so much faster if I have help.  I’m finishing the little that I have left here.  Figured out that the only way to truly move is to deal with the weights of others that are shackled around all of our necks.  Weights from many generations dead.  Remove all that and we can work on us.  Much love to all of you.  Much love.


Meade


]]> http://www.kincke.com/alls-well/feed 0 Bring That Noise http://www.kincke.com/bring-that-noise http://www.kincke.com/bring-that-noise#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:55:11 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=198 Y’all waking up.  I know it.  You feel it.  Trust the tingle on the back of your brain.  Bring it center circle.  We’ve been living in the rubble.  All’s been quiet.  Let’s build.  Outward, not up.  Bridge, fill gaps.  Touch all.  All.  Get ready for the wave that Imma be ridin’ like Poseidon.  I don’t need no trident.  I’ve shed my blades.  No need for metal.  No need for weapons.  Ride the noise.  Get all in it.  Best of all, let it get all in you.  ALL in you.  Get ready for this next round.  Wash the blood out your mouth.  Clean up.  Get lookin’ good.  No need for sunday best, the churches ain’t there anymore.  We got it so loud there isn’t any sound anymore.  Pulse, pulse.  Beat, Beat.  This ain’t enough, I need more.  Yes, the lifeblood is flowing.

]]> http://www.kincke.com/bring-that-noise/feed 0 Simple Is Often For Simpletons http://www.kincke.com/simple-is-often-for-simpletons http://www.kincke.com/simple-is-often-for-simpletons#comments Sun, 08 Aug 2010 05:40:37 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=196 I’ve noted that in drinkmaking, it is a normal convention that “less is more.”  The notion that is commonly put forward is that less ingredients makes for a more superiour cocktail.  The problem I take with that concept is that of purity.  There is no such animal.  When you say “this drink only contains 4 ingredients,” you are indeed, full of shit sir.  Take a martini: gin, vermouth, orange bitters, ice.  Ok, lets break those down.  Gin: holy fucking moses is there a lot of ingredients in gin.  Name your alcohol base, because it can be anything.  Then lets look at the botanicals involved in gin: the list will never end.  Vermouth originally comes from the word wermut, meaning wormwood.  But, vermouth is a wine that has herbs added….a LOT of herbs.  You see where I’m going with this.  This is why many of my drinks contain 1/8th ounce measurements and even smaller sometimes.  Yes, I do work with more ingredients than most sometimes.  The reason for this being, I am smarter than most.  Being comfortable with more than four ingredients is not popular because most people are not that intelligent.  Simply put.  So when you’re working with 18 ingredients, take in mind the ale Entire Butt, which contains 14 different malts and 3 different hops.  As soon as you try it, you can taste ALL of them.  It is truly incredible.  Hold your drinks to the same esteem.

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Ingredients

  • 1 ½ oz Barsol Pisco
  • ¼ oz Vya Sweet
  • 1/8 oz Suze
  • ¼ tsp Marie Brizard Parfait Amour
  • ¼ tsp Grenadine

Instructions

  1. Stir for approx. 45 sec until mixing glass is ice cold.
  2. Strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass.
  3. Garnish with Brandied Cherry.


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Ingredients

  • 1 oz La Fee Perisian
  • 1 oz Noilly Prat
  • ¼ oz Strega
  • 1/8 oz Falernum
  • ¼ oz Luxardo Marischino

Instructions

  1. Stir and strain into cocktail glass.
  2. Take a slight barspoon of Creme de Violet and slowly plunge into the drink.


]]> http://www.kincke.com/the-one-least-expected-wingman/feed 0 Uphill Climb http://www.kincke.com/uphill-climb http://www.kincke.com/uphill-climb#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:00:37 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=146


Ingredients

  • 1 ½ oz La Fee Bohemian
  • ¼ oz R. Jelinek Fernet
  • ½ oz Apry
  • 4 oz Boiling Water
  • ¼ tsp Oregano
  • ¾ tsp Sugar
  • ¼ oz Milk Whole

Instructions

  1. Pour boiling water in a teacup.
  2. Steep oregano in a teaball in the boiling water for a minute.
  3. Remove oregano teaball.
  4. Add everything else but the milk and stir.
  5. Then add the milk and stir.
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Ingredients

  • 2 oz of Diabolique Bourbon
  • ½ oz Heering Cherry
  • ¼ oz of Vya Dry Vermouth
  • 1/8 oz of Fonseca Bin No. 27 Port
  • 1 dash of Regan’s Orange Bitters

Instructions

  1. Stir with generous amounts of large, fresh ice for approximately 40 seconds.
  2. Strain into a cocktail glass.
  3. Flame an orange peel over the drink.
  4. Bend the peel slightly and float on top as shown.




]]> http://www.kincke.com/phoenix/feed 0 Toccata http://www.kincke.com/toccata http://www.kincke.com/toccata#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:39:57 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=133


Ingredients

  • ½ oz Orgeat
  • ½ oz Falernum
  • 1 oz Acholado Pisco
  • 1 oz Gordon’s Gin
  • 1 oz Gosling’s Black Seal Rum
  • 1 oz Lemon
  • ¼ oz Orange Tincture

Instructions

  1. Shake with crushed ice filled shaker, long and hard, and pour into a goblet.
  2. Float ¼ oz 151 Demarera.
  3. Drink with a straw.
]]> http://www.kincke.com/toccata/feed 1 Mob Hit http://www.kincke.com/mob-hit http://www.kincke.com/mob-hit#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:25:31 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=126


Ingredients

  • 1 ¾ oz Brugal Light Domenican Rum
  • ½ oz Campari
  • ¼ oz Strega
  • ¼ oz Orgeat
  • 5 Cloves
  • 1 Egg White

Instructions

  1. Shake and strain into a cocktail glass.
  2. Peel orange and spear with a clove.
]]> http://www.kincke.com/mob-hit/feed 0 The Compass http://www.kincke.com/the-compass http://www.kincke.com/the-compass#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:20:09 +0000 Meade http://www.kincke.com/?p=122


Ingredients

  • 3 grams of fresh cut organic onion
  • 1 ½ oz of Crop Tomato Vodka
  • 2 peppermint leaves
  • ½ oz of simple syrup

Instructions

  1. Shake gently at first (almost rocking) and finish with a few hard shakes.
  2. Then fine strain into a pre-chilled cocktail glass.
  3. Float one peppermint leaf on top (after rubbing or clapping it).
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