Comments on: Nacional

By: Jeffrey Morgenthaler

Jeffrey Morgenthaler — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:33 +0000

I’m glad you tried the drink, Lois, and am ever more delighted that you enjoyed it. Cheers!

By: Lois Sanborn

Lois Sanborn — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:34:08 +0000

This is just an excellent drink. I chucked my former Hotel Nacional recipe which was pretty boring for this one. Much, much better. Great job, Jeffrey. Thanks.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 15:58:32 +0000

Wow, thanks, Chris, I’m going to have to pick that up!

By: Japanesewhisky

Japanesewhisky — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:18:57 +0000

“They had another free daiquiri each, frozen so stiffly that it had to be drunk in tiny drops…”

Graham Greene’s novel Our Man in Havana is required daiquiri reading. It is mentioned throughout the book. The Havana Club and the Wonder bar are where they drink it and the morning is the favoured time. (“Wormold drank his daiquiri too fast and left the Havana Club with his eyes aching”). And then there is The Nacional, where they serve poisoned food, where you drink deadly whiskies and where the barmen try to kill you with lethal daiquiris.

By: Marleigh

Marleigh — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:24:51 +0000

A case?! Geez, the people at Fee Brothers must luuuuurve you.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 15:21:21 +0000

Thanks, Marleigh! Can you believe I’m going through a case of peach bitters every month now?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 14:52:35 +0000

You and your bitters ;)

By: Marleigh

Marleigh — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:14:17 +0000

Addendum: damn. Now I see why it's such a big seller. Excellent! (There's a little write up and a photo over at the blog.)

By: Marleigh

Marleigh — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 21:50:01 +0000

There’s nothing quite so nice as the feeling you get when you see a recipe you want to try and realize that you have every ingredient sitting at home, waiting for you.

Definitely going to try this tonight.

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:15:15 +0000

Thanks, Rick. Whenever I make this drink at work I have to enjoy the aroma coming from the mixing glass. I wish I could soak my upper lip in peach bitters sometimes.

Makes me happy.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:28:03 +0000

Jeffrey,

As I was measuring all of the ingredients for this cocktail, I just knew it was going to be good. The apricot and peach aromas really invite you into the drink. I was worried it was going to be too sweet (it was a little sweet), but the lime does such a great job of balancing things out.

And any use of peach bitters gets me interested.

Well done.