The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
It took a while to find a reason to us up a whole bottle of prosecco for some sparkling wine drinks. This is why, the bergamot eau de vie from the Naturbrennerei Engel is the last citrus eau de vie of this little series I am presenting to you.
This year was our second visit to Mallorca for summer holidays. Since we had such a great time last year, we also visited Stefan Winterling at his Casa Eva distillery again. I was especially curious, because he had just launched a vermouth.
I have tried a few mandarin eau de vies so far, but I never had one distilled from clementines. Of course, those two citrus varities are quite similar that is why you can only but clementines as fresh fruits. Yet, this did not stop me from using the spirit in another summer highball.
The next eau de vie from Manuel Engel uses one of the most famous Japanese citrus fruits. There are not a lot of yuzu eau de vies out there. So, Manuel took a chance and added one to his portfolio. Naturally, I want to share my thoughts about it, along with a refreshing highball.
I do love eau de vies and especially the ones distilled from citrus. My good friend Manuel Engel has some new varieties, and I had to try them! The first on my list is the grapefruit spirit. For a drink I kept it simple for a perfect summer refresher.
I know that I am too late for agave month 2025 with this tequila cocktail. Nevertheless, I want to present the La Perla to you. It took ages for me to get around to mix the drink, but I was lacking the pear liqueur for a few years. Now that I have a high-quality one, […]
The Autumn’s combination of tequila and sherry sounded too delicious not to try it. Especially, when there is also pear eau de vie involved. Yet, I made a slight error when remixing it.
I based the drink on the modern classic Negroni Bianco / White Negroni. Yet, I went for Reposado tequila as the base spirit. My changes did not stop there, but I also used a rather nerdy liqueur as well as a split wine base of port and Cocchi Americano.
Actually, I wanted to publish this post in New Year’s Eve. However, I only managed to finish it a day late, but I promise from tomorrow on it will only be Dry January content! Until now, I never had an elderberry eau de vie. Yet, I was too intrigued not to try it. Once again, […]
Actually, I am presenting two different spirits to you today. Just like the original Vieux Carré, I used a split base. Yet, instead of rye and cognac, I went with rum and a barrel aged raspberry eau de vie instead.
