Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original

27 Sep O’Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe

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O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth.  We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...

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26 Sep Hopped Whiskey + Hoppy Wallbanger Cocktail Recipe

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Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...

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16 Sep Sinner Takes Manhattan Cocktail Recipe

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Sinner Takes Manhattan Cocktail Recipe One of our proudest moment is when a friend first designs their own cocktail. Back in July, we spent a weekend in New Hampshire with a bunch of college friends. One of them, Dash, had just come back from a trip to...

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13 Sep Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe

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Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe When we were ordering our brunch drinks at Bearnaise, one drink caught our eye that we didn't end up ordering, mostly because we're on a tireless search to find the perfect Bloody Mary; so one of our drink slots is...

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02 Sep Patio Date Spritzer Cocktail Recipe

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Patio Date Spritzer Cocktail Recipe We haven't yet used a sparkling wine during our attempts to spritz our way trough the current heat wave. Perfect as sparkling wine is for summer drinking, that seems like a gap that has to be filled. However, since sparkling wine...

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01 Sep Herbal Spritzer Cocktail Recipe

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Herbal Spritzer Cocktail Recipe As we've been surviving the heat wave on spritzers this week, we've rightly been focused on drinks with a wine base. Wines make by far the most popular spritzers, and it's easy to understand why. The point of spritzers is that they're...

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31 Aug The Lakeside Cottage Mocktail Recipe

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The Lakeside Cottage Mocktail Recipe As we mentioned on Monday, we recently tended bar for a wine spritzer party a friend of ours was planning. When our friend mentioned he wanted a non-alcoholic spritzer on the menu, we enthusiastically told him about our newfound skill in making...

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26 Aug Martini Week: St. Germain Martini Cocktail Recipe

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Martini Week: St. Germain Martini Our final martini of the week is another ingredient substitution. We're going to tag in St. Germain for the vermouth. You're probably familiar with St. Germain. Made from elderflower, it's the delightfully pleasant, sweet and floral liqueur that we, like most any...

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25 Aug Martini Week: The Finnocchietto Martini Cocktail Recipe

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Martini Week: The Finnocchietto Martini We mentioned yesterday that there are two primary ways to experiment with a drink: adjust the proportions; substitute an ingredient. Having played with the proportions yesterday, we thought we'd swap an ingredient today. It's a simple change, but a bold one. We're taking...

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17 Aug The Granate State Cocktail Recipe

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The Granate State Cocktail After yesterday's post, we have a lot of very tasty, very fresh, very inexpensive grenadine left over. Before adding our vodka to the grenadine, as Annalaura suggests for preservation, we thought we'd make a couple more cocktails. Today's makes use of another new arrival...

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