The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
After my blogging colleague offered you more tasting notes on exotic and premium spirits, than one could ever drink, you may want to get in charge yourself on this topic. Drinking spirits offers a wide range of tastes, especially the barrel aged alcohols are influenced by different factors. Moreover, there is Rum, Whisky, Tequila and […]
Daniel Priseman advised us in his “10 things every bartender should experience” to visit at least one distillery. I even would go as far as suggesting this not only to bartenders, but to every spirits connoisseur. Luckily, I now had the chance to visit The Duke Gin distillery in Munich!
After my small Champagne tasting last year I was totally won over by the standard cuvée from Henri Billiot. That is why I decided to find out if their other bottlings are any good.
As promised, the gin review on the Black Forest Gin will be the last one for a while now, but since I am a hypocrite this is an outright lie, as you will notice when you have finished reading this article. Nonetheless, this still is a piece about rum: Dictador Rum to be exact, so […]
This year’s C&D meeting took place in Hamburg and was clouded by a nationwide rail strike. We still somehow managed to get to this great city in the North and met up at a trendy burger restaurant. However, great burgers along with nice drink creations were just the start of many great things to come!
Sometimes you are just lucky, for instance when you get a call on Friday that you are invited to visit a gin distillery on Monday! In this case, I had the chance to spend some time in Saarbruecken to visit Ferdinand’s Distillery and some vineyards.
View in: de en Kaum ist ein halbes Jahr vergangen, sind auch schon wieder einige neue Tonic Water auf dem Markt. Einerseits freut es mich immer, etwas Neues auszuprobieren, andererseits schwindet mit jedem neuen Tonic Water der Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit meines Tonic Guides. Zum Glück lässt sich das leicht ändern!
The series of (hopefully) useful consumer advice continues. This time it’s all about blended scotch whisky. Maybe this section of whisky is often overlooked, due to it’s famous brothers bourbon and single malt, but in the last years some new interesting products were introduced. Follow me as I take a closer look at three promising […]
Der 8. Barconvent Berlin lud am 07. und 08.10 engagierte Bartender, Gastronomen, Produzenten und Kenner der feinen Getränke ein. Es galt die neusten Trends und Produkte vieler namenhafter Brennereien, sowie handwerklicher Kleinbetriebe und Soft-Drinkhersteller genauer unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Nun liegen zwei intensive Tage hinter mir und eine kleine seelische Katerstimmung lässt mich darin […]
Als Bartender freut man sich natürlich immer, wenn man zu einem Tasting eingeladen wird. Genauso wie bei diesem Tasting mit dem Thema Cognac aus dem Hause Hine. Zu verkosten gab es fünf Cognacqualitäten und anschließend einige klassische, aber weniger bekannte Cognac-Cocktails.
