I fell in love with Suze at first taste. The full-bodied citrus and herbs and the long spicy, bitter finish had me! I frequently use it as a modifier to add richness and a little herbal bitterness to various cocktails. Almost a secret ingredient. I created this cocktail to highlight…
The theme for this month’s Mixology Monday is “Drink Nerdy.’ Our host, Rebecca of The Shrubbery blog, challenges us to embrace our inner cocktail nerdyness. From her Announcement Post, “The thing that unites everyone who participates in MxMo is our love of of cocktails. We love the history, the alchemy,…
It’s Mixology Monday May 2016! This month’s theme, hosted by Nick of the Booze Barn, is “Dry.” Around here, we like dry, (maybe why we live in South Texas)! The idea this month is to make a cocktail using a dry base spirit with no more than 10% sweetener/juice and…
Barrel aging at home is fairly simple, not ridiculously expensive and seriously worth doing. The in’s and out’s of getting started are covered in our Barrel Aged Cocktails page. While simply barrel aging cocktails is reason enough to get started, the real magic occurs when you age something in a…
I’m sure most of you know that this past October 21, 2015 was “Back to the Future Day.” That was the date that Marty McFly traveled to the future in the second movie. (and the Cubs won the World Series!) Well, in the first movie, Marty traveled to the past…
This, in retrospect, is a play on the Perfect Martini. One that combines both dry and sweet vermouth.
I enjoy gin drinks and bitter drinks. I also appreciate cocktails that are herbal and complex. The Mélange d’Or combines the flavors of Hendrik’s Gin, Carpano Blanco, Carpano Dry and Tempus Fugit’s Kina L Avion d’Or. Then I threw in Dale DeGroff’s Pimento Aromatic Bitters for an additional level of complexity.…
Treaty Oak Distilling is aging their gin in whiskey barrels to create their Waterloo Antique Gin. This is truly a unique gin. It has the sweet caramel nose that you would expect from the barrel aging but with the addition of the herbaceous input of gin. The flavors are citrus,…
I think that Fords Gin cries out for grapefruit. It so happens that grapefruit is one of the primary flavors in Jeffrey Morgenthaler’s tonic recipe. His quinine syrup, that you can add to club soda to make tonic water, is simple and takes less than an hour to make. I…
It seems that any cocktail containing gin and Lillet gets labeled as a Vesper. Other than the gin and Lillet, this drink is not even close to 007’s original concoction in Casino Royale. It is, however, delicious and visually stunning, which goes along with this season of glitz and glamor. …
