Mixology Monday: The Rosemond
a 12 Bottle Bar original
2 oz Leopold’s Gin
1 oz Hibiscus-infused Dry Vermouth (recipe below)
0.5 oz Rose Syrup (recipe below)
2-3 drops of Fresh Lemon Juice
Add all ingredients to a mixing glass
Stir with ice and strain into a chilled coupe
Garnish with a rose petal
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There’s an online cocktail party called Mixology Monday. It’s a great idea; once a month, a participating cocktail blog picks the theme and hosts the event. Anyone can participate by submitting a link to their applicable post, which should go up on the Monday of the event. Then, the hosting site puts up links to everyone else’s drinks. As we said, it’s a great idea – participating in a common theme with your peers, generating some traffic, being discovered by new readers. Unfortunately, there is one absolutely unforgivable element to Mixology Monday (MxMo to friends) that has always kept us from participating: we always seem to miss it. The events aren’t consistently “the second week of the month” or the like, and even though I’ve gone so far as to put a reoccurring reminder in our calendars, every month we find ourselves arriving, cocktail equipment in hand, just as the event train recedes in the distance. Until this week, that is.
