Merry Christmas Family Cocktail Today, we wish you a very Merry Christmas; or, if you’re not one to celebrate Christmas, we wish you a happy December 25th. We’re grateful for you tuning in for some liquor basics, cocktail recipes, and reviews. We’re spending Christmas with family, in all it’s loving, dynamic-filled glory. Families are like that, right? So good and so complicated all at once. It’s only...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: The Christmas Martini It’s the 12th drink of Christmas! And for the twelfth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … a Christmas Martini. It’s our final idea for making your holiday parties merry and your nights by the fire bright. We’ve mentioned this drink before, in our review of Founding Farmers. This was the ‘Chief’s Pick.’ We were supposed to give the...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Aztec Eggnog For the eleventh drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … an Aztec Eggnog. It’s the 11th of our 12 ideas to make your holiday parties merry and your nights by the fire bright. There are a handful of food and drink recipes in our lives that are so good that we must have them, and so rich that we must limit how often we consume them. Turning them into a holiday tradition is a...
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12 Drinks of Christmas: Spiced Winter Red Sangria For the tenth drink of Christmas, my true love served to me … a spiced winter red sangria. It’s the 10th of our 12 ideas for how to make your holiday parties merry and your nights by the fire bright. This is our third and final (thus far) experiment with taking the ultimate summer pitcher drink into winter. For what it’s worth, when our friend Kariuki tried these...
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Negroni Contadino For the 8th drink of Christmas my true love served to me … a Negroni Contadino. It’s our 8th of 12 drink ideas to make your holiday parties and quiet nights by the fire merry and bright. We told you about how we embraced its popularity and headed on over to Founding Farmers. We were expecting a farm-to-table feast (which we got) but were blown away by the farm-to-table drinks....
Read More12 Drinks of Christmas: Mid-Winter Margarita For the seventh drink of Christmas, my true served to me … a Mid-Winter Margarita, shaken in a Mason Shaker. We know that the old Mason jar has become aggressively hipster recently (even The Atlantic, of all places, is talking about ‘the hipster vessel of choice.’ Of course, the article is thoughtful as always). Count us with the hipsters on this one. We got a cocktail...
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