The Cocktail College Podcast: The Jasmine

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A riff on the Pegu Club that somehow tastes exactly like grapefruit juice? That can only be Paul Harrington’s Jasmine cocktail. How does the combination of gin, lemon, Cointreau, and Campari yield such results? We have no idea from a scientific perspective. The good news is that we can share how those ingredients came together, as we’re joined today by none other than Harrington himself.

Although Harrington’s professional bartending days now live in the somewhat distant past, his memories of that era remain as fresh as if they were just last week. Beyond giving us the inside scoop on his most famous liquid creation, Paul regals us with the tales of San Francisco and bartending in the early ‘90s. It’s Paul Harrington, pre-modern classics, pre-cocktail renaissance, and it’s all right here on the “Cocktail College” podcast. Tune in for more.