iPhone Cocktail Apps Contest!

March 17th,
2009

Posted by Doug
under iPhone

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Over the last few months, I’ve been reviewing a lot of iPhone cocktail apps, and will hit more as time goes by and I need some easy traffic have the opportunity to do so. The app market has evolved from the first, web-based apps that are usually just iPhone formatted front-ends, to some sophisticated onboard apps. Some local apps access the web for their database, while others keep it on the phone. Some focus on huge databases, while others, like Jimmy Patrick’s 101 Cocktails that I reviewed yesterday, focus on doing just one (hundred and one) things really well.
And there are a variety of little features in these apps: Random cocktail selection, shaker noises, favorite lists, and others.
Three things generally set apart iPhone apps from one another:

  • Recipe numbers and quality.
  • Photography or illustrations.
  • Those little funky features.

There’s a fourth quality determinant, whether the app includes a Pegu recipe, but we’ll pretend I’m suppressing my obsession for the moment….
My focus in this post is on those extra features. As I said, there are a bunch of them out there, but I’m sure that there is bunch more to be considered.
Let’s have a contest, shall we? In the comments, make your best suggestion for a new feature you haven’t seen in an iPhone cocktail app, but would like to. The winner will receive a package of fabulous prizes. What prizes? Three bottles of my homemade cocktail ingredients: falernum, orgeat, and Blueberry syrup. And also a free copy of Jimmy Patrick’s 101 Cocktails app for your iPhone! (iPhone not included.)
Here are the rules:
Make as many suggestions as you like, but one per comment, please.
If you see a suggestion from someone else that has already been used by a current app, please let us know which app has that feature!
If more than one person submits generally the same idea, I’ll go with the first submitter, unless another makes a significant improvement.
In other words, I am the sole judge, and if I get arbitrary, then that’s just the way it’s going to be.
21 or older please!
Deadline for submissions will be April 1, 2009.

Let me hear from you!

Here’s a list of the other posts here about Apple iPhone software:

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Tony and The Tiger

December 2nd,
2008

Posted by Doug
under General Cocktails, Other Liqueurs, Recipes, Sweets


OK, this was supposed to be a post about an epic blog fail. But neener, neener, haters! I’m sitting here at my computer, pretty damn pleased with myself. Try this, and you’ll be pleased with me too!
First, some background: Back in October, I was sent a bottle of Hiram Walker Gingerbread Liqueur so that I could be part of a recipe contest. The idea was that a lot of us bloggers would whip up magical concoctions using this not-half-bad-on-its-own liqueur and the best would be selected and showered with laurels.

But wait!
I saw no entry for you! And the contest is over. Shawn Cox won with the Bronze Autumn.
FAIL!

And thus it was that this was supposed to be a fail post. And as far as the contest goes… yes, Epic Fail. October got away from me and the deadline passed without so much as a halfway decent experiment to submit. Nonetheless, I was determined to put this bottle to good use. So about a week ago, I did the only sensible thing there was to do. I took the Gingerbread Liqueur with me to my bar and plunked it down before Pegu Blog Certified Bartender™, Tony. With several friends as willing guinea pigs, we had our own little Tuesday Drink Night. And we came up with a damn fine, simple to make cocktail, which I shall call simply Tony. Why? Because Tony concocted it, and because it, well, you’ll see.

Sounds good.
Let’s have the recipe.

Wait. It gets better. Much better. The conversation was wide ranging, and during the discussion over a failed attempt using Godiva White Chocolate Liqueur, I had an inspiration. Not for a drink, but for a desert!

A desert?
So now you’re a foodblogger?

Hang onto your hat, December is going to be foodblogging month here at the Pegu Blog, kicked off by this gem.
My all-time favorite desert is called Zebra Pudding, a bog-simple masterpiece made with nothing but whipped cream and obscure but readily available Nabisco Famous Chocolate Wafers. I realized that the Hiram Walker Gingerbread Liqueur would make for a great variant. Because of how it looks, I’ll call this desert Tiger Pudding, or simply The Tiger.

THE TIGER

  • 2 cups Heavy Whipping Cream
  • 8 tablespoons Hiram Walker Gingerbread Liqueur
  • 1 Pack Anna’s Ginger Thins (or other thin gingersnap)

Put cream and liqueur into mixing bowl and whip hard until just to stiff peaks.
Take a large, flat plate and spread a line of the whipped cream across it, about an inch and a half wide and fairly thin.
Take your first cookie and put a dollop of whipped cream on it, and place the next cookie over this, squeeze to leave only a thin layer of whipped cream between. It the cream oozes out, spiffy. Add another dollop and stack on another cookie. When you have a stack about four or five high, set the stack on its side in the middle of the strip of whipped cream. Then start dolloping on whipped cream and adding to the ends of the stack until you reach the ends of the plate, or run out of snaps. You should have what looks like an orange Dagwood Oreo.
Now take as much of the remaining whipped cream as necessary and ladle it on top, then spread down over the sides and ends until the whole thing is encased in white. Smooth it with your spatula until you have a neat, white log.
Place in the refrigerator for at least eight hours, or over night.
When ready to serve, slice diagonally into 1/2″ to 3/4″ slices, and serve each with a glass of Tony.

Tony itself is ridiculously easy. It’s sweet as all get out, but yummy, and The Tiger is not the only desert it works very well with.

TONY

  • 1 part Hiram Walker Gingerbread Liqueur
  • 1 part Tia Maria

Combine ingredients over ice and stir gently just enough to cool but not chill. Strain into a cocktail glass.

And voila, Tony and The Tiger!

Seriously folks, this is damn good. And it’s easy. And it’s cheap. And it looks great. And you need to try it.

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