Comments on: The greatest gift of all http://drinkboston.com/2009/12/12/the-greatest-gift-of-all/ Bars, bartenders and imbibing in Beantown. Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Patricia http://drinkboston.com/2009/12/12/the-greatest-gift-of-all/comment-page-1/#comment-67556 Patricia Sat, 26 Dec 2009 16:32:34 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/?p=1843#comment-67556 The greatest gift of all? Wearing shorts on Dec. 12...yup, that's always nice! But the links for supplies were nice too. The greatest gift of all? Wearing shorts on Dec. 12…yup, that’s always nice! But the links for supplies were nice too.

]]> By: kenlac http://drinkboston.com/2009/12/12/the-greatest-gift-of-all/comment-page-1/#comment-66908 kenlac Tue, 22 Dec 2009 03:48:15 +0000 http://drinkboston.com/?p=1843#comment-66908 A year or so ago Marty himself was behind the register of Marty's in Newton. I had a brief chat with him about bitters, saying "If you stock something beyond Angostura, I for one will be in here buying them." Low and behold, a few months later nearly the entire Fee Brothers lineup was there on the shelf. Alas, on a trip in there this month the stock had been reduced to nothing but about a dozen bottles of grapefruit bitters. (Even the Angostura was out of stock!) But the Fee Brothers falernum and Oregat had been added to the shelf, right there next to the 17 versions of Apple Martini pre-mix. (Remember when that sort of scourge was the only kind of cocktail you could get in this town not so long ago?) So... who's got the recipe for the Absinthe bitters at Employees Only? A year or so ago Marty himself was behind the register of Marty’s in Newton. I had a brief chat with him about bitters, saying “If you stock something beyond Angostura, I for one will be in here buying them.”

Low and behold, a few months later nearly the entire Fee Brothers lineup was there on the shelf.

Alas, on a trip in there this month the stock had been reduced to nothing but about a dozen bottles of grapefruit bitters. (Even the Angostura was out of stock!) But the Fee Brothers falernum and Oregat had been added to the shelf, right there next to the 17 versions of Apple Martini pre-mix. (Remember when that sort of scourge was the only kind of cocktail you could get in this town not so long ago?)

So… who’s got the recipe for the Absinthe bitters at Employees Only?

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