52 Weeks of Drinks: Week 2 - Miller Union

January 12, 2010

Well, we decided to head to a new restaurant in town - one we had been told has yummy cocktails and one were we have not been before.  (So a post on the actual food etc… of the restaurant will come next…)  Alas, we are posting about the new Miller Union restaurant on the west side of town.   Our friends, Neal and Carolyn helped open this restaurant and indeed, the cocktails are delicious. We chose the two that Neal suggested: Miller Thyme and the Manzanilla Sour.

I’ll start with the Manzanilla Sour.   I ordered this one and as usual, I liked Alison’s better.  This chamomile infused pisco is served up with lemon juice and egg whites. The whites make it nice and frothy and adds a cool texture to it. It was a perfect mixture of all these ingredients and the chamomile certainly made this drink pop.  Neither of us found it truly “sour” as the name suggests, but that is good since I hate sour things.

Don’t forget our ratings scale is between 1 and 5 Olives.  One Olive = waste of my blogging time;  5 Olives = oh my goodness/yummmmm

Our ratings on the Manzanilla Sour:

Presentation:  3 of 5 olives

Taste: 4 of 5 olives

Creativity: 4 of 5 olives

Overall: 4 of 5 olives…it really was a nice drink and it was not too sweet or sour - you could easily have two and not feel overwhelmed.

Our second drink was another drink served “up.”  This one, I might add, I liked more than the other - but I think it is only because I am over egg whites in drinks.  I have had a lot of those lately.  Anyway, the Miller Thyme was a delicious blend of Millers Gin with housemade thyme simple syrup.  Yum, Yum, Yum.  Now, I am not much of a gin drinker, but I loved this drink.  Millers Gin is excellent anyway, but the thyme almost made me swoon.  Okay, not really, but it was good.  I made Alison drink most of my Manzanilla Sour and I drank her Miller Thyme.  Oops!

Our ratings for the Miller Thyme:

Presentation: 3 out of 5 olives…I accidently sipped the entire piece of thyme down my throat.

Taste: 5 out of 5 olives.

Creativity: 4 out of 5 olives - Only two real ingredients, but supurb.

Overall: 4.5 out of 5 olives.  Loved it!

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