The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
I got a long backlog of drinks I did not get around to write about. However, the list of cocktail ideas is even longer. Well, this time I am presenting an absolutely delicious cocktail to you. However, I do not really recall what the motivation behind it was.
Truffles are always a delight. However, the truffle flavour is hard to incorporate into drinks. So, I was very delighted to see that Wilhelm Marx created a whole line of truffle flavoured spirits. For this line, they partnered up with Trufo from Switzerland to create a truffle gin, a truffle raspberry spirit as well as […]
The mad Drinkstagrammer Matthias Soberon started a little thing called Secret Santé five years ago on Instagram. If you join, Matthias assigns you a fellow cocktail enthusiast for whom you create a drink in the spirit of secret Santa. It is my first time participating and I am very happy that I drew Slow Mixology […]
While I spend some time experimenting with room-temperature cocktails, I never thought about replacing the water / ice in a cocktail. Nevertheless, for this month’s Home Bar Awards challenge “Hell No H2O” I needed to come up with a replacement for it. So, I took a drink I wanted to mix for almost half a […]
To be honest, up until now I never made the original ubiquitous Espresso Martini. I always replaced the vodka with another spirit. Somehow, it never made sense to me to combine coffee flavours with a rather neutral spirit. So, this time I really stuck to the authentic recipe. Yet, I am also presenting another version […]
Yes, this recipe hast not written “tropical” all over it. Yet, the flavour combination does remind me of an exotic drink. On top of that, the cocktail just seemed perfect for this month’s Home Bar Awards challenge – “stirred Tiki”. Be warned however, the recipe calls for some work in advance!
When going on holidays, I always check out which distilleries are near. So, when we went to the North Sea, we spent a night on Gut Basthorst to visit the Feingeisterei. Besides eau de vies and liqueurs the two also produce gin, rum as well as aquavit. In the future a whisky will complement their […]
While you might have heard of Linie Aquavit, the name Lysholm probably does not ring a bell. However, they are the same family that made Linie Aquavit a renown label. The relatively new No. 52 is now a new version to show off aquavits potential for mixing. I thought I would take advantage of that […]
After my first visit to the Finest Spirits in 2016, I managed to swing by the great spirits tradeshow once again. The focus this year was on rum, which we had at the Finest Spirits Bar and from a small, but excellent Austrian distillery. Below you will find our highlights from so many great products […]
Yes, you read right: cucumber eau de vie – a distilled spirit made out of cucumbers. This might seem like a poor idea at first glance, yet everyone is already throwing cucumber wheels in their Gin & Tonics. So, why not take the next step and replace the gin altogether? Because, plain cucumber and tonic […]
