Tag Archives: partida tequila

A is for Agave

Posted on July 20, 2014 by BoozeNerds

This coming Thursday, the 24th of July 2014, is National Tequila Day. Being the booze patriots that we are, we felt we should honor the event by making more tequila drinks. As we said in A tequila transition, it’s a … Continue reading →

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Tinkering with Tinctures

Posted on July 13, 2014 by BoozeNerds

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. đŸ™‚ Booze mixed with medicine, … Continue reading →

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Using complementary orange liqueurs

Posted on June 1, 2014 by BoozeNerds

We have quite a number of orange liqueurs in our cabinet, and we’ve been curious for a while whether it was good, bad, or indifferent to use an orange liqueur with a base spirit that’s complementary to the primary liquor … Continue reading →

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A tequila transition

Posted on December 29, 2013 by BoozeNerds

We both like tequila, but we don’t use it as much as we should. It isn’t used much in the classical cocktail canon apart from in Margaritas, which makes it easy to overlook. This fact was brought to our attention … Continue reading →

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Lime vs Acid Phosphate

Posted on July 28, 2013 by BoozeNerds

Recently we received an order of acid phosphate (as well as other goodies) from Darcy O’Neil at Art of the Drink. Mr. O’Neil has been a tireless researcher of extinct drink ingredients. We love such intrepid individuals. We’re fascinated by such … Continue reading →

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