Desperately Seeking Suze...

Last night some friends and I enjoyed another of Adam Bernbach's creations at Bar Pilar, the Brown Brothers. This cocktail, made from Buffalo Trace Bourbon, Suze liqueur, and Adam's homemade "Yarmouthport" vermouth, was quite good and the aroma was AMAZING. I wanted to keep smelling the drink forever. Anyway, this drink has me on a mission to find Suze liqueur so I can approximate the drink at home.

Suze is apparently a French bitter liqueur flavored with gentian. It has become very difficult to find, the distributor may have gone out of business. I've been told that there may be a bottle somewhere about 15 blocks from my office. I'm contemplating a quest to procure it later this evening.

Taking a walk... to the liquor store

I'm sure it's not a surprise, but I really like going into liquor stores and checking out what they have on the shelves. I've discovered some good deals by looking at the dusty stuff back behind other bottles that way. I'm currently working in a different neighborhood than I have for the past two-and-a-half years, so there are different liquor stores to explore. Today I really needed an afternoon walk around the block to stretch my legs after a long day in front of the computer, so I strolled over to one of these stores.

Since all the other cocktail bloggers seemed to be writing about these days and I didn't get a free bottle myself since no one actually reads my blog, I decided to pick up a bottle of Matuselum Gran Reserva. Because I was looking at rums, the liquor store pointed out the bottle of Depaz Blue Cane Rhum Agricole that was on sale for half price. Depaz for $20? Sold. He threw in a mini-bottle of Bulldog Gin since I hadn't tried it, and I was set.