The Sacramento Liquor Run
Jul. 28th, 2013 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelA lot of good booze isn't available in Michigan because Reasons, so you can't find the right ingredients for hip craft cocktails on the shelves around here. On the four-day jaunt to California's state capital from which I just returned, I decided to correct these holes in my liquor cabinet.
Grocery List:
#1: Root, by Art in the Age, last acquired in April of '12 in Las Vegas.
#2: Creme de Violette, any.
#3: Anything else by Art in the Age.
#4: Creme Yvette if #2 was unavailable.
Things got off to a promising start as I found a creme de violette-laced Aviation cocktail on the menu of the place we went for lunch on Thursday. Washing down delicious heirloom tomato salad with an Aviation and a Detroit-inspired The Last Word was a great way to start things, but alas-- the only place around Sac that had Art in the Age products only carried Root and was flat out of Creme de Violette with the next shipment due in Tuesday. So I scored on #1, but had to make do with #4, which is kind of like Chambord with spicy and floral elements. I can kind of taste the violet character but mostly I'm tasting berries. It's still a big improvement over Parfait Amour, which promised violets but tasted like orange and vanilla.
But overall I'm mostly pleased.
Yo, Lua-- I know you'll be reading this one. I saw a California Thrasher down by the Sacramento River and two white-tailed kites hovering by the freeway at the edge of town.
Grocery List:
#1: Root, by Art in the Age, last acquired in April of '12 in Las Vegas.
#2: Creme de Violette, any.
#3: Anything else by Art in the Age.
#4: Creme Yvette if #2 was unavailable.
Things got off to a promising start as I found a creme de violette-laced Aviation cocktail on the menu of the place we went for lunch on Thursday. Washing down delicious heirloom tomato salad with an Aviation and a Detroit-inspired The Last Word was a great way to start things, but alas-- the only place around Sac that had Art in the Age products only carried Root and was flat out of Creme de Violette with the next shipment due in Tuesday. So I scored on #1, but had to make do with #4, which is kind of like Chambord with spicy and floral elements. I can kind of taste the violet character but mostly I'm tasting berries. It's still a big improvement over Parfait Amour, which promised violets but tasted like orange and vanilla.
But overall I'm mostly pleased.
Yo, Lua-- I know you'll be reading this one. I saw a California Thrasher down by the Sacramento River and two white-tailed kites hovering by the freeway at the edge of town.
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Date: 2013-07-29 03:55 am (UTC)Dude, that's my neck of the woods. What else did you do while you were over here?
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Date: 2013-07-29 03:59 am (UTC)Day 1: State Capitol (AM), lunch w/ aunt and uncle at Shady Lady, Leland Stanford Mansion Tour (PM), visit with cousins
Day 2: California Museum for the Ray Eames exhibit (AM), lunch w/ cousin at LowBrau and Ginger Elizabeth, drive to Truckee for the hell of it, pick up another cousin at train station and take her to Grange, more cousin-visiting
Day 3: Run around Old Sac looking for birthday presents for a little kid. Birthday party. Walk with husband by Riverfront. Liquor hunt. Return to hotel for packing.
Day 4: Get up before dawn and fly home.
There was really not a spare moment the entire trip.
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Date: 2013-07-29 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-07-29 04:08 am (UTC)Actually, I don't recall visiting Old Sac when I was a kid and I was shocked at how large and Old West it was. I expected Spanish-style architecture like the older parts of the rest of California. I knew Sacramento wasn't a mission town but with a name like Sacramento I expected stucco and tiles.
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Date: 2013-07-31 07:47 pm (UTC)(and eeee birdies :D jealous of your california thrasher sighting; their derpy beaks make me so happy)