Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews

16 Nov Rock Creek Rye + The District Cocktail Recipe

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Rock Creek Rye One of our biggest delights upon moving to DC was to discover the exciting, new movement of local distillers here. Local distilling was quite the American tradition, before Prohibition. There were 4000 distillers in the US at the dawn of Prohibition; post-Prohibition, only...

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13 Oct Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe

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Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking to the beginning of fall. One of our favorite ways to mark the changing of the seasons is to create a seasonally appropriate old fashioned recipe; it's our version of the pumpkin spice latte. While we...

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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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28 Jul Bar Absinthe in French Riviera + Sweet Pea Cocktail Recipe

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Bar Absinthe in French Riviera The neon green sign beckons you into a cozy, cave-like cellar bar that feels like the perfect place to try some absinthe. The hosts are genial, relaxed, and seem like they were born to serve absinthe in a small French bar. The large screen TV which...

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26 Jul French Liqueurs in Provence

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French Liqueurs in Provence We spent three nights in the very small, somewhat sleepy, but unbelievably picturesque hilltop village of Bonnieux in Luberon. There are a lot of good things we could say about this tiny town: great views of the Provencal valley, short drives to fields...

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21 Jul Watermelon Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe

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Watermelon Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series, and since then we’ve been working to add to the collection in order to make summer 2016 the. best. summer. ever. You’ve joined us for Watermelon Week because what summer is...

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01 Jul Arriba! to Summer Cocktail Recipe

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Arriba! a Summer Cocktail Recipe As we've mentioned, we used some of Wigle's standards to spice up our cocktail class drinks. We love the way Wigle's day-in, day-out spirits bring just a little twist in an unexpected direction to drinks. Even more than that, we love the...

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28 Jun Pittsburgh’s Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe

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Pittsburgh's Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe We mentioned yesterday that it took what seems to us a very long time before it occurred to anyone to try to mix multiple liquors together in a single drink. To give due credit to our mixological forefathers, they had much more material...

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07 Apr Drink of the Week: Double Wigle Mai Tai Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 11:10h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

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Drink of the Week: Double Wigle Mai Tai  It was an exciting day at Roberts and June: Wigle delivery day. As people who always like trying something new in the spirits world, we love the way the folks at Wigle are constantly rolling out new ideas. Rather like a...

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