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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: Original Cocktail
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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MxMo: Gone Courting & Ozaki
It’s Mixology Monday time again. This month’s theme, highballs, comes from Joel at Southern Ash. From the announcement: Highball – n. 1. a long iced drink consisting of a spirit base with water, soda water, etc -Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged … Continue reading
What to do with woody whiskey
There are a lot of craft distillers out there now. We really love some of the interesting and high quality products they’re making. However, we don’t enjoy the micro barreled whiskeys that some of them are producing. We get it, … Continue reading
Posted in aperol, Original Cocktail, raspberry liqueur, Tasting Notes, whiskey
Tagged Aperol, tallahassee cocktail recipe, woody whiskey
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MxMo: Far Afield & Kentucky Star
It’s Mixology Monday time again! We hope everyone enjoyed our resin theme from last month. This month’s theme comes from The Straight Up and is all about anise, a most appropriate theme for this time of year. We decided to see what we … Continue reading
MxMo: The Achaean & Raven’s Wing
In keeping with our Mixology Monday theme, we decided to gin up (heh :)) a couple of resin-y cocktails this week.
Salt
This week, we wanted to talk about the effect of salt (one of Christa’s favorite food groups!) on drinks. We first found out about salt in cocktails at an Irish whiskey tasting. The host said that mixing with Irish whiskey … Continue reading
MxMo: Amundsen
It’s Mixology Monday time again. This month’s host is Stewart over at Putney Farm, and his theme is “Intercontinental”. Submitted drinks must have ingredients from at least three different continents. Being over-achievers, we decided to see if we could hit all … Continue reading
Posted in aguardiente, amaro, bourbon, Mixology Monday, Original Cocktail
Tagged aguardiente, amaro averna, amundsen cocktail recipe, angels envy bourbon
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Any Excuse to Drink Bourbon
September is National Bourbon Heritage Month, which is certainly worth celebrating to honor this uniquely American whiskey. Since we’re big fans of the spirit around here (the post title says it all, really :)), we decided to mix up a couple of … Continue reading
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