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Keith Saunders

I honed my mixology skills at the Oak Room of the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston. Other experience includes the Four Seasons Hotel in Chicago, and the Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage, where I facilitated community tasting events while bartending at the Crow's Nest. I am currently working with a team of mixologists at Simon & Seafort's. To date, I have created more than 300 new cocktails. I've lived in Anchorage since 1999.

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Butcher's Toddy

Posted by Keith Saunders

Posted: March 2, 2008 - 10:24 am

Several years ago I created a new cocktail to honor Susan Butcher.

I met her 20 some odd years ago in Boston Massachusetts, when she was visiting accross the Charles River in Cambridge.

I only spoke to her briefly but she left a lasting impression of Alaska on me. Not long after it became a goal of mine to live here. It took 10 more years for me to realize that dream.

I had this warm delicious Toddy on the master cocktail list in the Crows Nest for several years and it was popular during the Iditarod!

I stumbled accross it in my cocktail archive files and wanted to share it.

In her honor here is the recipe for all. I hope sometime this week you can lift a glass and honor this great woman for all she accomplished and for what she gave to everyone while she was here!

Butcher's Toddy (It's sweet and simple)

2 oz. Ruby Red Port (use the Grahams Six Grapes Port)
1 Tblsp. simple syrup
splash of orange juice

Fill a 8-10oz. coffee mug with hot water and rinse the glass to warm it up. Fill the mug with all three ingredients and fill back up with hot water. Add a cinnamon stick for a little spice.

Cheers!


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