Cascade Golfer 19th Hole

Late Summer Cocktail with a Kick

The Irish Mule is the perfect après golf toast to your round

BY BART POTTER • CG STAFF WRITER

This premium whiskey – and a copper mug – provides punch and panache

With the cocktail special, Crallie tries to introduce Friday night patrons to brands and concoctions that might deviate from their usual bar order.

“If they like it, they can add it to their repertoire of drinks,” he says. “It’s a bit of an adventure for them.”

Most drinkers know of the Moscow Mule, a vodka and ginger beer cocktail laced with fresh lime juice, served in a distinctive copper mug.

The Mule can have as many variations as there are spirit brands compatible with ginger beer and lime. Crallie leans toward Tullamore Dew, a premium Irish whiskey distributed worldwide by William Grant and Sons.

The cocktail, in its Irish iteration, is a frequent entry on the lounge’s Friday night special menu and is widely enjoyed by customers.

Why Tullamore?

“It has a distinct flavor that sets it apart from just any whiskey,” Crallie says.

At Twin Lakes, on any given Friday night, it could be Tully Time.

At Home Bar Mixology

The Tullamore Irish Mule

By John Crallie • Food & Beverage Manager Twin Lakes G & CC • Federal Way

INGREDIENTS

• 2 oz. Tullamore Dew

• 6 oz. ginger beer

• Juice of half a lime (1 oz.)

• Lime slices for garnish

• Mint sprig for garnish

INSTRUCTIONS

Consider mixology for a single cocktail or batched for a larger vessel. Measure carefully and properly for mix and taste. Pour and mix ingredients — stir or gently shake with tools and vessels available. Serve over ice in a copper mule mug.

Mixology Master John Crallie

John Crallie was bored in retirement. He’d spent many years — “more years than I’d care to mention” — as an executive chef in multiple locations in the Marriott Hotels corporation.

In his boredom, the 73-year-old kept an eye on his Indeed job-finder account … and what should pop up but a listing for a food and beverage manager at Twin Lakes Golf and Country Club in Federal Way.

As it happens, he was already living in the Twin Lakes community, so what better fit for this veteran of the industry? Now, two and a half years later, he oversees the greenside lounge and restaurant in the clubhouse at Twin Lakes G & CC.

In that capacity, he creates the Friday night special menu, which includes several dinner specials, a wine special and a cocktail special.