Liquor 101: Cocktail History

29 May Tiki Week: The American Schools of Cocktail + Planter’s Punch Cocktail Recipe

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Tiki Week: The American Schools of Cocktail One of the things I liked best about Robert Simonson's semi-official history of the cocktail revival, A Proper Drink, was the way it helped me to understand the different schools of modern drink-making. I'd always known that not all...

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16 May Beer Cocktail Week: Stout Sangaree Cocktail Recipe

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Stout Sangaree Cocktail Recipe This week, we're applying our mixing skills to beer. We know we're sledding uphill. Most people prefer their beer taken unmixed, and many beer mixed drinks are an acquired taste. But give us a chance. People have been mixing beer in drinks...

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15 May Beer Cocktail Week: Ale Flip Recipe

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Beer Cocktail Week I like beer. Not as much as cocktails, mind you; but I like beer. We left a lot behind when we departed Boston, home to us for our adult lives, and made our way to DC. One thing--a small thing, but still a...

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10 May Liquor 101: Irish Whiskey + Glendalough Cocktail Pop-Up at Service Bar

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Liquor 101: Irish Whiskey The Irish may have created whiskey. They also may not have. The Scots stridently argue that they're the original whiskey distillers. Apparently, the vikings also have a claim, though modern Scandinavians don't seem to stake that claim in quite the same way...

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09 May Liquor 101: Making our Own Old Tom Gin

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Liquor 101: Making our Own Old Tom Gin Perhaps the most devastating review of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace came from a fictional character, and took only 10 words. As the Simpsons family exited the theater, as we all did, in 1999, Lisa's comment was, 'Who knew...

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18 Apr Daisy Week: Fancy Gin Daisy Cocktail Recipe

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Daisy Week: Fancy Gin Daisy Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming...

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15 Apr Daisy Week: Introduction + Whiskey Daisy Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 18:52h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Daisy Week: Introduction A couple of weeks ago, we tried out our Lyon Distilling curacao on a Holland Gin Daisy. We enjoyed our Holland Gin Daisy so much that we decided we needed to look a little further into the Daisy. We discovered that the Daisy...

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27 Mar Punch Week: An Introduction to Punch + Billy Dawson’s Punch Recipe

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Punch Week: An Introduction to Punch We've never been much for punch. The word evokes rainbow sherbet and 7-Up or, even worse, concoctions served out of plastic trash cans at college parties. If there's one thing we avoid in a drink, it's consuming it out of...

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27 Feb Say Hello to Lyon Rum

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Say Hello to Lyon Rum When we lived in Boston, some of our favorite days were what we called 'Beach and Rides.' On Monday holidays, or when the weekend weather was particularly beautiful--especially at the beginning of the summer when we were celebrating the new warmth or...

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20 Feb Fasel Shenstone Brings the Aperitivo to America

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Fasel Shenstone Brings the Aperitivo to America We've recently made a new friend, and we want you to know all about them. Like most friendships, this one is built on a common interest, fortified wines. We know you're not supposed to have favorites, and all of...

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