Drink of the Week: Mississippi Punch Searching for some inspiration for a recipe we were designing recently sent us way back, to ‘Professor’ Jerry Thomas and the cocktail guide he wrote in the mid-19th century. The Mississippi Punch grabbed our attention. ‘Punch’ is right; this recipe certainly packs one, calling for two full wineglasses of spirits. By modern sizes, that would be about 10 oz, 5 times the...
Read MoreSpirits Week: Rum Last week, we gave a brief overview of the three big categories of liquors, their distinctives, and the part they each play in cocktails. Over the course of this week, we’ll be going into more detail on one of those three categories: the base spirits. These are the highly alcoholic, basic building blocks of the liquor world. Spirits Week will be of most interest to those of you who like your drinks to have a...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Spicy Lady For the 9th drink of Christmas my true love served to me … a Spicy Lady. It’s #9 of our 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. Many years ago, when I was new to the world of cocktails, I went to Alibi. I ordered some drink that involved spicy rum and Kahlua. It was the best drink I ever had. Then I went back. They had changed their...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Grapefruit & Honey Old Cuban For the second drink of Christmas we serve to you the Grapefruit and Honey Old Cuban. It’s our second of 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. We were introduced to the Old Cuban by one of our current favorite cocktail books, Paul Clarke’s Cocktail Chronicles. Despite its name, the Old Cuban is a modern creation of...
Read MoreClassics Week: The Daiquiri As we’ve mentioned, rum is not our strong suit. What’s become of the daiquiri might go a long way toward explaining our prejudice against rum. When we think of the daiquiri, we think of artificial flavors and artificial colors, basically frozen Kool-Aid with a splash of rum thrown in. As we’ve come to learn, this is entirely unfair to the daiquiri. Ernest Hemingway wasn’t drinking...
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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...
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