Drink of the Week: Thanksgiving Smash We’ve been having fun recently experimenting with smashes. A smash is a very old and, until recently, mostly dormant style of cocktail involving sugar and seasonal fruit (the Mint Julep is a smash that stayed current during the quiet period). Smashes aren’t terribly sophisticated-they come after all from the very beginnings of mixed drinks-but they are, however,...
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Fall Five: Pumpkin Pie Shooters Series Links | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion We wrap our Fall Five series today with one of our all-time favorite party drinks. These are a must, either for Halloween or Thanksgiving-or, you know, just a Friday night when you’re craving fall and need to shake off the work week. People always ask us who liked cocktails...
Read MoreFall Five: Rosemary Maple Bourbon Sour Other fun fall drinks | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters Outside of my former office window was a large, old sugar maple tree. Right around this time of year, it would burst into the most brilliant of colors, giving me a very visible, very beautiful reason to celebrate the coming of fall. Maybe because of that tree, my favorite...
Read MoreFall Five: Fall Ginger Smash Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters A few weekends ago, we spent the weekend at a truly unbelievable house with an even more incredible group of people, saying goodbye to summer and hello to fall together. It was a quiet weekend full of winery visits, walks and rides along the cart paths of a closed golf course...
Read MoreFall Five: Spiced Rum Old Fashioned Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Pumpkin Pie Shooters We start day two of our five-day celebration of fall with a book recommendation. Perhaps our favorite cocktail recipe book this year has been Eric Prum and Josh Williams’ Shake. It’s organized by time of the year; so at the change of every season, we’ve...
Read MoreFall Five: Apple Margarita & The Manhattan’s Apple Other fun fall drinks | Rosemary Bourbon Sour | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters Boots, puffy, vests, and leaves in every hue. That-plus the site of flannel (everywhere)-means that fall is here, and maybe ponchos are for awhile as well? I grew up in Southern California and my only real notions of fall was that was when school...
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