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Christa and Shaun discovered that they have a shared passion, some might say obsession, for good booze, cocktails and food. This blog chronicles their further explorations and adventures tasting, mixing and enjoying yummy and sometimes not so yummy booze.-
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Category Archives: gin
Labor day cocktails
It’s Labor Day weekend! Which is traditionally the last day where you can wear white, which is very important for us. Well, ok, not really. We wear whatever the fuck we want ;). We do love the spirit of the … Continue reading
Tinkering with Tinctures
This week we’re talking about tinctures, which are great for adding variety to cocktails. A tincture is defined as: a medicine that is made of a drug mixed with alcohol. Which we like the sound of. 🙂 Booze mixed with medicine, … Continue reading
Posted in blanco tequila, champagne, gin, grapefruit juice, lemon juice, lime juice, mezcal, orange juice, sparkling wine
Tagged del maguey mezcal, drink additions chipotle, drink additions curry, drink additions tarragon, mischief gin, mumbai moderne cocktail recipe, partida tequila, sundog cocktail recipe
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Muddled Thinking
In case it isn’t obvious, we tend to obsess with how drinks are assembled, and whether or not using one technique over another makes for a better drink. One such technique is muddling. In particular  we were wondering if muddling … Continue reading
Raspberry liqueurs
As is typical of us, we’re never content to have just one of anything 🙂 If there are multiple brands of a particular liquor or liqueur, we like to try all of them to see what makes each one unique, … Continue reading
Cider
This week we decided to do some tasting with various ciders. We went to our local mega-mart and picked up a selection of hard apple cider, several of which are from WA and a couple of which aren’t (we do … Continue reading
Slow Cocktails
We both love living here in the Pacific Northwest, the region has tons to offer: a vast range of landscapes and climates, amazing produce and seafood, gorgeous summer weather, and of course a wealth of distillers and other craftspeople who … Continue reading
Posted in branca menta, gin, ginger liqueur, limoncello, Original Cocktail, rye, shrub
Tagged Cascadiana cocktail recipe, dr picketts shrubs, July 5th cocktail recipe, letterpress limoncello, mischief john jacob rye, scrappy's lime bitters, slow foods speakeasy, sound spirits ebb + flow gin
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Switchels & Shrubs
This week we decided to take a look at shrubs – flavored, sweetened vinegar-based syrups – and switchels, which are the same thing only with the inclusion of ginger as a flavoring. The vinegar in them serves the same role … Continue reading
Posted in blackberry liqueur, gin, Original Cocktail, shrub, switchel, white rum
Tagged as above so below cocktail recipe, brave sir robin cocktail recipe, dr picketts lemon ginger blackberry switchel, giffard muroise, Pacific Distillery Voyager Gin, pok pok som honey shrub, prichards crystal rum
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Chartreuse
Chartreuse is a French herbal liqueur that comes in both a green and a yellow formulation. You can find both varieties in many cocktails, where they add interest from their herbal flavors as well as sweetness. This week, we check … Continue reading
Sweet Vermouth
Sweet vermouth is a staple in the Booze Nerds cabinet, as it is used in a wide variety of drinks. As a result, we have quite a few different brands. This week, we thought we would check out their flavor … Continue reading
Posted in gin, maraschino, scotch, sweet vermouth, Tasting Notes
Tagged carpano antica vermouth, dolin rouge, Vermouth, vermouth perucchi, vya sweet vermouth
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Chocolate Liqueurs
This week, we thought we’d talk about the two options we use in place of regular creme de cacao. The usual commercial versions of that spirit tend to be overly sweet and not very chocolatey. So instead, we use Mud … Continue reading
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