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Hanoi’s Finest Cocktail: Molecular Night 2.0

November 15, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Hanoi’s Finest Cocktail was the opening drink at Molecular Night 2.0 at the JW Marriott Hanoi. Information about the evening had been kept deliberately sparse in order to maximise the surprise factor. This cocktail fired the first salvo. Guests arriving for the evening were unaware what was in store or that the event was being held in a secret location, not in the French Grill restaurant as expected.

There, the bar staff apologised profusely and explained that the mixologist was stuck in traffic and had yet to arrive. Would they possibly like a beer while they waited?

Hanoi's Finest Cocktail by the Mood Therapist Molecular Night 2.0 JW Marriott [Read more…]

Filed Under: Carbonated Cocktails, Cocktails, Events, Featured Cocktails, French Grill, Moet Hennessy, Molecular Night 2.0, Tinctures

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble: A Marou Chocolate Cocktail

February 3, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

The Grand Bean to Bubble - Another Modernist cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonough

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble is a new Marou Chocolate cocktail with a hint of Grand Marnier, topped off with sparkling wine.

It was created for a charity fundraiser in support of The Library Project – an organisation that provides access to books for kids in rural Vietnam. It’s the result of a collaboration between the Mood Therapist, Marou and Moet Hennessy and debuted at an event at the Park Hyatt Saigon organised by Rice Creative.

The Grand Bean-to-Bubble is an elegant chocolate cocktail with a hint of orange that drinks like champagne and has a little surprise at the end… [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Carbonated Cocktails, Cocktails, Events, Featured Cocktails, Liquid Nitrogen, Marou Chocolate, Park Hyatt Saigon, Spherification, The Library Project Tagged With: Marou Chocolate, Moet Hennessy, Park Hyatt Saigon, Rice Creative

A Yink (I Think)

January 13, 2016 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

A Yink (I Think) - Another Modernist Cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughMany new parents will be familiar with a Yink (I think). But maybe not this Yink (I think). For the rest of you…

This one, I think, is called a Yink.
He likes to wink, he likes to drink.
He likes to drink, and drink, and drink.
The thing he likes to drink is ink.
The ink he likes to drink is pink.
He likes to wink and drink pink ink.
SO…if you have a lot of ink,
then you should get a Yink, I think.

From One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss

OK, so it’s not really ink. But it’s certainly pink. That’s because of the hibiscus flowers used to infuse the vodka – the old fashioned way. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Bitters, Blog, Centrifuge Clarified, Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, Milk Washing, Shaken

The Marouni

November 9, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Marouni Cocktail - Another Modernist cocktail by Rich McDonough, Hanoi's Mood TherapistThe Marouni – Because it’s simply too difficult to order a Marou Cacao Negroni after a few of them…

This is a very simple concept, made woefully complex. I wanted to make a chocolate negroni using Marou chocolate – a Marouni, if you will. It wouldn’t be the first one of course, but I reckoned I could make it better. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Blog, Centrifuge Clarified, Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, Marou Chocolate, Nomiku, Pressure Infusion, Sous Vide, Stirred

Szechuan Pepper Negroni

September 29, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Szechuan Pepper Negroni - Another Modernist Cocktail from Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughThe Negroni has had a big resurgence in the last few years and with good reason. In a sea of overly sweet and formulaic cocktails, the Negroni is a staple whose bittersweet notes hit the spot while even the most junior of bartenders find it hard to get it wrong. It’s also a cocktail which lends itself well to a myriad of variations, like this Szechuan Pepper Negroni. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, Nomiku, Sous Vide, Stirred

Vietnamese Basil Daiquiri

September 20, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Vietnamese Basil Daiquiri - A modernist cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughThe Vietnamese Basil Daiquiri is a blatant rip off of Dave Arnold’s masterpiece the Thai Basil Daiquiri, developed for his New York bar, Booker and Dax, but we’re hardly going to be using that Thai stuff around here, eh? It’s a relatively simple drink (if you happen to have liquid nitrogen knocking around your house) but is just so fresh, intensely herbacious and tasty that it packs a punch well above it’s weight class.

The problem with using delicate herbs like basil in cocktails is [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cocktails, Events, Featured Cocktails, French Grill, Liquid Nitrogen, Shaken

Plasma Mary

September 17, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

The Plasma Mary - a Modernist Cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughSo why a Plasma Mary?

I love a great Bloody Mary. They are delicious. But they’re filling and can quickly turn into hard work. I’ve never found myself able to drink more than about seven at one sitting…

What I wanted to do with the Plasma Mary was to bring all that wonderful savoury, umami deliciousness but make it lighter and cleaner on the palate. By pressure-infusing vodka with fresh horseradish and using a centrifuge [Read more…]

Filed Under: Centrifuge Clarified, Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, Pressure Infusion

Passion Hot / Passion Not

September 17, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Passion Hot/Passion Not - A modernist cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughInspired by the Hot Frozen Gin Fizz served up at Ferran Adria’s El Bulli restaurant, the Passion Hot / Passion Not features one of Vietnam’s natural flavour heavyweights – the passion fruit. 

This layered drink consists of a frozen gin, centrifuge clarified passion fruit juice and simple syrup mix, topped with a hot foam of the same flavours and stabilised with egg whites. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Cocktails, Events, Featured Cocktails, Foam, French Grill, Frozen, Hot, Nomiku, Sous Vide

Clarified Lychee Martini

September 17, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

Clarified Lychee Martini - A modernist cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonoughThe Clarified Lychee Martini is a simple recipe but a great cocktail for demonstrating the transformational abilities of the centrifuge. With this drink the difference really is night and day. Most lychee martinis are milky white affairs with plenty of flotsam/jetsam and not a lot going for them in the flavour department. Either taste the fruit isn’t pronounced enough or the gin is diluted down to the point of sadness…and who needs that?

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Centrifuge Clarified, Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, Liquid Nitrogen, Stirred

Seoul Drifter

September 17, 2015 By moodtherapist Leave a Comment

The Seoul Drifter - A modernist cocktail by Hanoi's Mood Therapist, Rich McDonough

The Seoul Drifter is a ‘drink’ that I developed for a string of ‘Molecular Nights’ at the French Grill restaurant at the JW Marriott Hanoi. The intended pairing with fine de claire oysters was foremost in my mind when developing the menu and to serve a [Read more…]

Filed Under: Centrifuge Clarified, Cocktails, Featured Cocktails, French Grill, Spherification

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