vermouth Tag

02 Feb Where to Drink on the PCH: Pebble Beach + Semi-Black Manhattan Cocktail Recipe

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Where to Drink on the PCH: Pebble Beach When we spent the first week and a half of January on a driving tour of California, introducing our new child to some of our favorite people and places, our family kindly lent us one of their cars...

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02 Jan Liquor Review: Maurin Vermouth Rouge

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

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Maurin Vermouth Rouge On a recent trip home from the office, we stopped by our DC All Purpose liquor store, Schneider's, to replenish our vermouth supply. As we mentioned in our profile of Schneider's, one of its features is that the clerks are very forthcoming with...

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18 Oct Arsenic & Old Lace Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic by Roberts & June

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Arsenic & Old Lace Cocktail Recipe We stumbled across this recipe while we were doing some research on another one. It caught our attention and held it--fitting considering its original name is Attention. We'd never heard of it before, but it's actually a pretty old drink, though...

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04 Oct Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Brian Acker Housman

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Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe As you'll know if you read our post 'What's the Ideal Dry Martini?',  learning of Hemingway's preference for a 15 gin: 1 vermouth proportion sent us into some research on martini recipes over time. We, of course, found that gin to...

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21 Sep Where to Drink in Athens: Odori Vermuteria + Otto’s Highball Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: Other by Roberts & June

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Where to Drink in Athens: Odori Vermuteria While we spent most of our time in Greece on the islands, we couldn't pass so close by Athens without saying hello. We spent a morning visiting the Acropolis. Speaking honestly, the Acropolis has never been on our bucket...

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11 Aug Liquor 101: What’s the Ideal Dry Martini?

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Liquor 101: What's the Ideal Dry Martini? In Philip Greene's fun and engaging To Have and Have Another, we read that Hemingway preferred his martinis at a 15 parts gin: 1 part vermouth. We have to admit that it made us curious how a 15:1 martini tasted....

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25 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Gambler’s Delight

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Hemingway Drinks: Gambler's Delight We're spending this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks from Ernest Hemingway's...

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24 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Harry’s Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe

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Hemingway Drinks: Harry's Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe While we were doing our research for Daiquiri Week, Ernest Hemingway really caught our attention. How could he not? Legend has it that he once consumed 17 of them in a single sitting at the Floridita bar. In honor...

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18 Jul Where You Should Be Drinking: Waypoint in Cambridge + Washington Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: Boston by Roberts & June

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Where You Should Be Drinking: Waypoint in Cambridge On our way to Cape Cod, we made a prolonged stop in Cambridge to visit friends and to volunteer at Soccer Nights, a one of a kind summer evening soccer clinic for low-income, immigrant youth. One of us...

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28 Jun Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin + Fairbanks no 2 Cocktail Recipe

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Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin We're eternally grateful to Glendalough, the craft Irish whiskey maker, for giving us  a whole new appreciation for what an Irish whiskey could be. I think craft Irish whiskey, with it smooth and companionable style, has been our default whiskey for cocktail mixing...

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