As my fellow scofflaw Marshall mentioned in his write-up, bourbon has a special place in our hearts. If I had to pick a "desert island' liquor, it'd be bourbon. If I thought about what I drank the most in college - other than beer - it'd be bourbon (or even after college). Heck, my parents rubbed bourbon on my gums back as a kid to help with teething!
Well, for all that, I was excited to see the entries this month. We've got some doozies! It really makes me want to get back into the bar and make up some of these delicious sounding drinks.
So enough of all that, let's get into the recaps - but first, something else...
I received an e-mail last week from Mike Manning at Bulleit Distillery. I'd only ever had Bulleit in minis or the occasional mixed drink and he asked if I'd like to have a sample and some material about it. I, of course, said yes. Sure enough a package showed up on my doorstep on Monday (and was fortunately brought inside by my brother before the monsoons could wash it away). Inside was a 750 mL bottle of Bulleit and some papers.
If you haven't had it before you should give it a shot. I tried about half a shot of it first, just sipped it, and liked it better than I had remembered when I'd last tried it straight. The bottle is also just neat looking. I've been into Westerns for a long time and it just looks Western, and it seems they used it on the show Deadwood for that very reason. It's definitely more authentic than that "Wild Spirit" stuff I used to drink a while ago!
So I've gotta thank Mike for his donation. I used it in my drinks last night; I'm sure Marshall and I (assuming I let him have some) will have to see how it works out in some others.
One quick other thing: the Den is what we consider an "online speakeasy". With our new digs (see bottom of the post) we'll hopefully be able to work on the sense of community and camaraderie much better than our current host. As I see it, Marshall and I are your bartenders for the evening. Though most evenings there's only one or the other of us on shift; for instance, I handled this MxMo, but I know Marshall is chafing at the bit to host one of his own!
One last thing before the recap: if you're a blogger in the Washington, DC, area, leave a comment or drop me a line at seanmike -at- scofflawsden -dot- com. I've seen at least a couple of you out there and would love to see who we could get together for a

Next up we have the Nickel Fizz from Max Heusler, the "editor in fly" of the FlyboyzNYC blog. This is a combination of bourbon, vanilla beans, and cherries, along with Boylan's black cherry cola - one of the flavors that I can find pretty readily in my local grocery stores. He doesn't say if he used sweet or sour cherries, but if I made it, I'd use sweet cherries because I've got a huge sweet tooth.




Over at eGullet there were three responders to be included. Erik "eje" Ellestad, who organized the thread (and thank you!) recalled Murray Stenson's "Porteno". Tiare came up with something called a "Spiced Paprika Whiskey Sour" which sounds like it hits a number of my favorite things. Bostonapothecary came up with a drink from the Savoy Cocktail book called The Artist's Special.
That's it for this month! I'm not certain who has it next month during the long hot days of July, when all the lucky bloggers are down in N'awlins and I'm stuck in LA at E3, but we'll see what happens!
And don't forget - Scofflaw's Den is moving! We are almost done with the site migration; soon, any of our domain names (scofflawsden.com, scofflaws-den.com, or .org, or .info) will go to the new site (right now only one of those does). And we'll be posting on there, too. For now I'll be trying to keep up with copying over our archives to the new site.