Slings

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Aromatic + Sweet + STRONG + Weak

Key Element: Strong
Lead Element: Strong
Pivotal Element: Aromatic

Traditional Slings

Traditional Slings are spiced Slings - or those that are unaromatized. The default spice used to accent Traditional Slings is nutmeg. Mace is also recommended.

TRADITIONAL SLINGS

Toddies are zested Slings. The default zest used to accent Toddies is that of the lemon. Fresh citron (Citrus medica zest is strongly recommended if available. Orange zest, and others are also used.

TODDIES

Cocktails

Cocktails are bittered Slings. The default bitters used to accent Cocktails is the gentian bitters sold as Angostura™. Any other bitters, which includes all products called amer, amaro or amari, and kräuter-likör, may also be used.

COCKTAILS

Juleps

Juleps are herbed Slings. The default herb used to accent Juleps is spearmint of the lemon. Basil is also recommended, especially with gin.

JULEPS

Cobblers

Cobblers are cobbled Slings. The default presentation for Cobblers is in metal cups, filled with crushed ice and the drink, the top of which is cobbled with fruit.

COBBLERS

Cups

Cups are fermentate-based Slings.
The default form for Cups is that based on wine, sweetened, watered with a lesser amount of charged water and ice, and aromatized with citrus zest or flowers or cucumber, et cetera.

CUPS

Sling Description

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Aromatic + Sweet + STRONG + Weak

Key Element: Strong
Lead Element: Strong
Pivotal Element: Aromatic

Slings are mixed drinks in which alcoholic products are sweetenened, mixed with lesser amounts of water, and usually aromatized.

In contrast to the balance needed for the Whiskey Sour (a Punch), the Whiskey Cocktail (a Sling) requires harmony that leaves the whiskey dominant.

Sling History

The elemental terminus post quem for Slings is between 200 B.C. and 50 A.D., with the rise of the specific drink, Conditum Paradoxum proving so.

The nominal terminus post quem for modern Slings is currently in the year 1792 A.D.

Slings are the quintessential form of mixed drink from the culture of the USA, and the colonies that they were formed of.

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