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It’s Been a Long Week: The Pumpkin Pie Old Fashioned

As true believers of the work hard, play hard mantra, we present you with It’s Been a Long Week, a weekly column aimed at awarding some liquid appreciation to you for just being yourself, dammit. Make a glass or two on us, you deserve it.

WHAT

The Pumpkin Pie Old Fashioned
The annual task of surviving Thanksgiving often requires a little bottled encouragement—especially when that uncle you haven’t seen since the last one starts interrogating you. Preserve the holiday spirit with a Pumpkin Pie Old Fashioned powered by Cutty Sark’s Prohibition Edition Blended Scotch Whiskey, which—as its name suggests—remixes the classic cocktail in a festive blend that’s sure to make family time at least a little sweeter.

HOW

Ingredients:

1.5 oz. Cutty Sark Prohibition Edition
0.5 oz. Grand Marnier
2 tablespoons pumpkin puree
1 oz. maple syrup
orange peel

Image: Essential Homme, Cutty Sark, Grand Marnier, Amazon, Heros Welcome, The Sluth Journal.

THEN

Using a cocktail shaker filled with ice, mix the Cutty Sark and Grand Mariner with the puree and syrup. Make sure to shake well and strain before pouring into an ice-filled, old-fashioned glass. Finish by garnishing with an orange peel.

Blood Orange Wins Brooklyn

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Blood Orange is his name and the stage is what he mopped during his set at Brooklyn Night Bazaar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn this past Wednesday (April 2nd) night.

The singer—real name Devonté “Dev” Hynes—was on-hand (and pitch) at the launch of Cutty Sark‘s newest whisky marque: Prohibition Edition. Hynes, known for his writing/producing work with artists such as Solange, Sky Ferreira, and Kylie Minogue, performed a set that included his smash You’re Not Good Enough (joined on stage by girlfriend Samantha Urbani), as well as Chamakay, Uncle Ace, It Is What It Is, a cover of Solange’s Bad Girls, plus a tribute to the legendary Frankie Knuckles.

Said Hynes, “Cutty Sark’s background is steeped in the history of Prohibition – a time when people pushed boundaries and rebelled against the status quo in pursuit of authenticity. My musical style is similar in that it can’t be categorized into one style. The main reason I began writing my own music is because it was the kind of music I actually to hear.”

Images courtesy of Cutty Sark.

Spirits Be Getting All High Proof

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Sean Kenyon recently won Nightclub and Bar Awards Bartender of the Year 2014.

The trend in high proof spirits began about two years ago when the NY Times first reported, “High-alcohol spirits — variously sailing under the terms overproof, cask-strength and barrel-strength — are becoming commonplace.” Since then, the tick has continued to surge up up up, thanks no doubt to Hollywood’s renewed (and ever-vacillating) fascination with bygone eras (Mad Men, The Great Gatsby, Boardwalk Empire). This past February, Maryland lawmakers voted to forbid the sale of grain alcohol that’s at least 190-proof (the bill now moves to the House of Delegates — fun stuff). But people are just people; we want what we want, and we want our high proof spirits.

“The General Consumer is getting better educated on spirits and recognizes more now than they did 12 years ago that flavored cocktails like apple martinis are a joke, where as a Rye Old Fashioned is not only appropriate, but if you’re a real man (or woman), also delicious,” says bartender and Creative Director Steve Yorsz from Rochelle’s Bar in New York.

According to bartender/restauranteur Sean Kenyon, the increased interest in high proofing also directly coincides with the return to prominence of the classic cocktail. “Today’s conscientious bartenders are looking to authentically recreate the classics and most of the 19th century era recipes call for high proof spirits.”

So which is the highest growing spirit of the bunch? North American whiskey, the second-largest spirit category in the US, represents 23% of sales and is growing at nearly twice the rate of the total spirits category. Cutty Sark whisky is one of the labels abetting trends by introducing Prohibition Edition, a nod to the brand’s origins dating back to the 1920’s. Here’s what you ought to be stirring up:

The Glasgow Dagger
2 oz. Cutty Sark Prohibition Edition
0.5 oz. Lustau Amontillado Sherry
0.5 oz. Lustau Pedro Ximenex Sherry
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
In a mixing glass, stir all of the ingredients with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass, garnish with orange zest.