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#65: Peckerheads

The Bar Peckerheads . 402 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701 Visited 3/29/17 @ 9:30pm. The Drink Adios, motherfucker! . Tequila, whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, triple sec, blue curaçao, sour. $5.50. I love that Dirty Sixth offers drinks like these. A bunch of liquors together in a glass? Why not: no matter your preferred liquor, this drink has got you covered. This neatly solved my "drink that best represents the bar" question as well, since it's basically the Venn diagram intersection of every cocktail at once, so it was win-win for both me and the bartender. I don't see any mezcal or scotch hiding in there, but in true trash can punch style you wouldn't want to waste your higher-end liquors on this kind of slumgullion anyway. The only actual flavor you can taste in this drink is "blue", thanks to the sour and the curaçao; don't worry, underneath it, the alcohol is definitely working its magic. That they serve this giant glass with an extremely ...

#72: Toulouse

The Bar Toulouse . 409 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701 Visited 4/20/17 @ 1am. The Drink Adios, motherfucker! . Tequila, whiskey, vodka, gin, rum, triple sec, blue curaçao, sour. $5.75. I honestly thought that these drinks were a joke when I first encountered one at Peckerheads, but now that I've found another specimen in the wild, it's apparent that they're real, and they're spectacular . At a whole $.25 more than the Peckerheads varietal, Toulouse's rendition of what is somehow a standard cocktail does not offer the cheapest Adios, motherfucker! you can find on Sixth Street. That might be a real drag for those of you saving your quarters for laundry day, but at least for my money they added a lemon garnish, which I appreciated since I'm one of those people who puts a lemon or lime in basically everything I drink, especially ice water. Did you know that the discovery that citrus prevented scurvy caused a global boom in lemon prices, eventually leadin...

#86: Clearport

The Bar Clearport . 516 E 6th St, Austin, TX 78701 Visited 6/10/17 @ 9pm. The Drink Old-Fashioned . Bourbon, cherry bitters, grenadine, muddled oranges. $10. The unusual hue of this Old-Fashioned reflects the unconventional mix of ingredients that went into it. We are all well-acquainted by now with the standard set of elements that goes into a textbook Old-Fashioned, and indeed there are few drinks more satisfying than the classic, but far be it from me to stand in front of progress by discouraging an artist from adding more colors to her palette, assuming textbooks have palettes. The end result was far sweeter than just about any Old-Fashioned I've ever had, the already sweet Bourbon only amplified by the saccharine chorus of the other ingredients. I wonder what this would have tasted like with rye whiskey - to return to the painting metaphor, would the rye have balanced out the oranges and bitters/grenadine in a color triad , or would it have been too jarring? As ...

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