Digital Matter

notes, recipes & marginalia from tāst

dark brown cocktail in a stemless glass with a large head of foam. An orange sits on the table next to it.

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The Black Russian

This one's a little fussy. It's like a white Russian, with some seasoning. 

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Tall glass filled with fizzing brown liquid with a had pouring sparkling water into the glass

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Brew & Tonic

Drink it through the stack, then through the swirl, then through the bottom where the bitter and the bittersweet have become one.

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two hands place an orange peel on a short, stemless cocktail glass with a brown drink with foam

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Lazy Carajillo

It's the carajillo that lingers. The one you take your time with on a tile patio in July, not the one you knock back at the bar.

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Tall glass with lemonade on the bottom and coffee on the top. Golf balls and lemons scattered on the table around the glass

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The John Lynch

Cold brew up top, lemonade underneath, doing the harder thing without asking for it.

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Tall drinking glass full of ice and coffee while coffee is being poured from a carafe above

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Japanese Iced Coffee

Like Summer, hot and heavy, sticky sweet, popsicle, chlorine, sunscreen, dancing in the dark, sweating with strangers, falling in love, o...

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Java - West Java Sunda Badak

When I was young and had to go down south to visit Grandma Jean, she would wake me at dawn. Take me out to the fields and show me how to ...

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Brazil Serra Negra

Sure, camping sounds better than sleeping outside. But we're still sleeping outside. And you had the nerve to laugh when I suggested we b...

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