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Flower Power
After recovering from Tales of the Cocktail, we’re back this week to talk about using flower waters in cocktails. The two most common flower waters are rose water and orange blossom water. To be honest, we don’t know that we’ve … Continue reading
Substitution
Sometimes you’re in the mood for one of your favorite cocktails and then, to your horror, you discover that you don’t have a key ingredient. What to do? You try a substitution and see what happens. 🙂
Posted in allspice dram, basil, cachaca, lime juice, mint, pineapple juice, simple syrup
Tagged leya cocktail recipe, substitution
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Spritzes to the Rescue
It’s hot, way too damn hot here in Seattle. Since that’s the case, we’ve been having more light, refreshing, club soda-heavy drinks after dinner rather than our usual practice of having a splash of brandy or whiskey. Actually, we’ve been having them … Continue reading
Fizzes
This week, we play around with fizzes, a versatile style of drink that lends itself to hot weather quite well. We were inspired when we came across our bottle of sloe gin while searching the cupboard for a different ingredient, … Continue reading
Posted in aged rum, cream, egg white, gin, lemon juice, lime juice, orange flower water, simple syrup
Tagged booze nerds fizz, ramos gin fizz, sloe gin fizz
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Sage
High summer has come early in Seattle this year, which means we’re seeing lots of sun and very little rain. The sage, thyme, rosemary and other dry-season herbs are loving it, so we have plenty to harvest from the garden. … Continue reading
Posted in absinthe, cachaca, grapefruit bitters, lemon juice, lime juice, sage, simple syrup, vodka
Tagged croft cocktail recipe, de nada cocktail recipe
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MxMo: Local
It’s Mixology Monday time again. This month’s theme comes from Stuart over at Putney Farm, one of our favorite food and booze blogs. The theme is Hometown Hooch. In Stuart’s words: Your quest is simple. Create a new cocktail, or refashion … Continue reading
Fresh Juice Substitutes
This week we’re both busy with real life intruding on our fabulous lives of being jet-setting booze bloggers. 😉 So we decided to throw up a quick post on some fresh juice substitutes that we occasionally use to get from … Continue reading
Posted in Tasting Notes
Tagged fresh fruit juice, fruit juice, Pineapple Juice, substitute
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Cider Sangria
With the weather being unseasonably warm here in Seattle this year, we’ve been drinking more warm weather drinks – coolers, Collins, and sangrias – than usual for May. We especially love sangria for picnics or barbecues, but with such a … Continue reading
Posted in cider, cognac, gin, simple syrup
Tagged paul giraud vsop, seattle cider co, spy hop gin
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Choosing a Dilution Strategy
As we move towards summer, we decided this week to experiment with dilution strategies. You have a dilution strategy planned, don’t you? If not, read on to see what we found out.
Posted in lime juice, maraschino, simple syrup, white rum
Tagged La Belle Dame sans Merci cocktail recipe
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MxMo: Ten Paces at Dawn & Park View
It’s Mixology Monday time again! This month’s theme comes from Fred Yarm at Cocktail Virgin Slut, our inestimable torch bearer for Mixology Monday. The theme this month is I’ll Take Manhattan. On the surface, the theme seems somewhat limiting. The Manhattan is … Continue reading
Posted in aged rum, amaro, amaro montenegro, angostura bitters, cherry bitters, malt whiskey, Mixology Monday, nocino, yellow chartreuse
Tagged Mixology Monday
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