True Blue

What is the story of Betsy's Braces and the origin of the word Cocktail?

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It is a popular rumour that a barmaid named Betsy, served a mixed drink in her tavern, during the Revolutionary War. The drink she made was called Betsy's Braces and it is said to have been popular with American and French soldiers. According to this legend Betsy’s tavern was located near Hall's Corners in New York.

It is rumoured that the French soldiers coined the term cocktail that follows an anecdotal incident.

There is a story say that American soldiers stole male pheasants from their British counterparts and celebrated this at the Tavern. It is said at the time of the toast one of the American soldiers proclaimed "Here's to divine liquor which tastes as delicious to the palate as the cock's tails are beautiful to the eye." This was followed by the French reply "Vive le cocktail!"

A story, but a great one indeed

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True Blue

Rich, creamy, and layered


  • Bailey`s Irish Cream 4.5 cl
  • Advocaat 4.5 cl
  • Vodka 4.5 cl
  • Jamesons Irish Whiskey 4.5 cl
  • Guinness 5 cl


tumbler


True Blue
true blue is a popular Vodka cocktail containing a combinations of Bailey`s Irish Cream,Advocaat,Vodka,Jamesons Irish Whiskey,Guinness .Served using a tumbler


True Blue Ingredients


Bailey`s Irish Cream,Advocaat,Vodka,Jamesons Irish Whiskey,Guinness,


True Blue Recipe


Take a chilled tumbler and add one ice cube. Pour over the ice cube in the following order (do not mix): 1. Baileys; 2. Advocaat; 3. Vodka; 4. Whisky; 5. Guinness. Relax, and enjoy! I invented this cocktail when working a bar for free drinks in lieu of cash. I named it after a stocky welsh man who kept saying Oh, you guys all the time.

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  • Baileys Irish Cream

    Bailey's Irish Cream is an Irish cream liqueur, a liqueur is an alcoholic drink made of distilled spirits and flavorings such as sugar, fruits, herbs, and spices. They can be rightfully christened as the descendants of herbal medicine. The Bailey's Irish Cream is a sweet, cream and cocoa flavoured thick liqueur with Irish Whiskey being the base alcohol and is one of the most popular liqueurs used in cocktail creation.

  • Advocaat

    Advocaat is a traditional Dutch alcoholic beverage made from eggs, sugar and brandy, with a rich custard like consistency, with about 14% to 20% ABV. Advocaat or Advocatenborrel is usually made from a blend of egg yolks, aromatic spirits, honey, brandy, vanilla and cream.

    The origin can be traced back to an indigenous Brazilian drink name abacate, made from Avocado, introduced in Europe by the Dutch colonialists in Brazil. Since Avocado didn't grow in Northern Europe the drink doesn't have any Avocado any more but the name remained.

  • Vodka

    Vodka is an European clear distilled alcoholic drink that has been one of the most popular drinks across the world .

    You'll find it to be the most popular spirit in drink making because of it's neutral taste and absence of flavour and colour.

    Vodka often replaces Gin in many traditional cocktails

    Vodka is known to be good for the heart, and if consumed in moderation, can prove to be good for cardiovascular health

    Note that these days there are flavoured Vodka available in the market too, and some cocktails do make use of them.

  • Jamesons Irish Whiskey

    Jamesonis one of the most popular blended Irish Whiskey produced and sold worldwide, by the Irish Distilleries subsidiary of Pernod Ricard. Jameson is on the six main Dublin Whiskeys at the Jameson Distillery Bow St., Jameson is now distilled at the New Midleton Distillery in County Cork -source - Wikipedia

    Jameson has an interesting history if we go by the whisky or whiskey first argument, the founder of the distillery John Jameson was originally a lawyer from Alloa, Scotland and previous to establishing the Jameson distillery in Ireland, he married Margaret Haig in 1768, Margaret was the eldest daughter of John Haig, the famous Scottish whisky distiller.

    Jameson is produced from a blend of grain whiskey and single pot still whiskey, a single pot still whiskey is a traditional Irish distillation technique of using a mixture of malted and unmalted barley, and Jameson uses the Irish unmalted green barley, all sourced from within a fifty miles of the distillery in Cork.

    The barley is dried in a closed kiln fired by natural gas, while anthracite was used previously. This is a distinctive contrast to the use of peat in firing the kiln in Scottish Whisky distillation, which adds a distinctive peat flavour.

  • Guinness

    Gunniess is an Irish dry stout that was the produce of Arthur Guinness's brewery at St. James's Gate Dublin, Ireland in 1759. It is the most successful alcohol brand worldwide, Guinness is brewed in almost 50 countries and sold in over 120 countries. Guinness' unique flavour derives it's uniqueness from malted barley and roasted unmalted barley brews, the older recipe was to blend a portion of aged brew with a freshly brewed beer to give it a sharp lactic acid flavour. On another note, a dry stout is a dark, top-fermented beer, and dry stout is one of the few variants of a stout beer. The original reference of stout was of the strength of the beer, and the same dark brown beer in a later period has also been referred to as a porter, and the stronger verities were called "stout porter" and thus the history of a stout and a porter is pretty intertwined. Although today, a stout is strictly a dark beer, strength is not a qualification of a stout anymore. Top fermenting is one of the different beer brewing techniques, in which, the yeast is applied to the top of the wort ( the sugary extract of the malts and other ingredients that the yeast will ferment into a beer ) at a much higher temperature.

    Mcguinness Melon Liqueur is a bright green coloured melon liqueur, with a gentle melon flavour, however this Melon Liqueur is not widely available in USA.

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