The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
When it comes to gin cocktails, the Last Word is one of my favourites. There just is something deeply intriguing about the flavour combination of Chartreuse and Maraschino. Of course, when I made the jasmine tea infused Ki No Bi Gin, I also had to make a Last Word variation. Let us see how this […]
One thing I love about travel is that you discover new products. In this case, I probably would never have discovered this bitter orange liqueur, if I didn’t visit a small shop in Passau, Germany. Of course, there are a lot of orange liqueurs out there. Yet, this one felt special and I can say […]
I already reviewed quite a few bottles from Douglas Laing’s Regional Malts series. The standard expressions are a great way of tasting the different styles and regions of Scottish malts. However, there is even more to discover! Douglas Laing also releases special versions of the blended Scotch whiskies. Today, I am taking a closer look […]
The second spirit from Empirical I want to present to you is also – let‘s call it „special“ – as the first one. „The Plum, I Suppose“ uses plum kernels as its base. Nevertheless, inspired by a Irish Coffee variation from Empirical, I came up with a coffee cocktail. The drink makes perfect use of […]
You probably noticed that I like coffee flavoured cocktails. Of course, there is the Espresso Martini, but it is also fun to add coffee flavour to drinks which you usually do not link to coffee right away. In this case I went a little crazy and added as many coffee flavours I possibly could to […]
As promised, here are the best cocktails you can mix up with blood orange eau de vies! Of course, a Blood Orange & Tonic is a great, refreshing highball. However, I also took a look at (modern) classic cocktails and added a bit of blood orange eau de vie to them. On top of that, […]
When one of the most famous German bartenders launches his own liqueur, you just have to try it! So, this is exactly what I did. Especially when it is a Crème de Cacao. A lot of my favourite cocktails like the Twentieth Century use this delicious liqueur. Fortunately, I already had a recipe in mind.
Even though cognac is a classic cocktail ingredient, it gets side-lined by other more famous spirits most of the time! When you do find a recipe calling for it, most of the times it uses V.S. or V.S.O.P cognacs. However, cocktails using older cognacs are very rare! Spontaneously I can only think of two the […]
A few months ago I sampled a great bourbon from the Buffalo Trace Distillery. However, at least here in Germany the E.H. Taylor Small Batch is quite an expensive tipple. So, I thought I give the Eagle Rare Bourbon a try. It also comes from Buffalo Trace and on top of that even from the […]
