Help name this Cocktail: The Results

by Jonathan M. Forester, Posted Jun 21st 2007 @ 2:02PM

A few weeks ago I wrote about a cocktail that was created by The Cocktail Guru, Jonathan Pogash when I requested a drink with certain characteristics to it. This was at the long end of a Friday evening of sipping drinks at Bookmarks in the Library Hotel in NYC.

I asked all you Slashfoodies to help out in creating a name for the cocktail. There were many great suggestions and comments and it was hard to narrow it down to the final name.

I have only visited the Cocktail Guru once since that night, when I told him about asking you readers to suggest a name. I emailed back and forth with him to see which suggestions he liked, but this will be the first time he finds out the results.

The suggestions for the name of the cocktail and the final choice after the jump.

Well we had 37 comments with a total of 52 suggestions for the name of this cocktail and I thought many of them were pretty good. Thank you readers for all the great suggestions. In alphabetical order they are:

Bitter Scotsman
Blazing Saddle
Bonny Lad
Burning Gambler
Burnt Orange
Donny Johnston
Flame Thrower
Florida Kilt
Gentleman's Orange
Glowing Ember
Holy Smoke
Lady in Orange
Laird's Dram
Lapdance
Leather-Bound Book
Loch Ness Cocktail
Mahogany
Misty Hollow
Old Roy
Orange Flame
Orange Frog
Orange Hollow
Orange Jerk
Orange Velvet
Orangeman
Peat's Pacifier
Peaty Proper
Rooftop
S&M
Scotch L'Orange
Scotch Pirate
Scots' Orange Tea
Scottish Dirty Martini
Sean Connery
Skirling Kilt
Slow Burn
Smoked Citrus Fruit
Smokey Grove
Smoking Gun
Smoking Peel
Smokey Scotsman
Smokey-sexy-smooth
Smokey Sunset
Smokey Vitamin C
Smooth Seduction
Stair way to Heaven
Swirling Kilt
Torch
Torch Singer
Up On The Roof
Vintage Orange
Zesty Peatmoss

My personal favorites for the top ten are:

Bonny Lad
Burnt Orange
Glowing Ember
Holy Smoke
Peat's Pacifier
Smokey Grove
Smokey Sunset
Smooth Seduction
Swirling Kilt
Misty Hollow

After much discussion with other cocktail enthusiasts over several cocktails I decided I liked...

Smokey Grove

Thank you Sarah for suggesting the winning name for the Smokey Grove cocktail.

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