The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
Sometimes there goes a lot of thought into my recipes. Some other time the drink starts with its title and I create a suitable cocktail for the song / music reference. Yet, in this case, I started with two ingredients which were coincidentally standing around in my living room at the same time.
When the folks of Drinksyndikat asked if I wanted to sample their first gin, I was very happy to try it in a recipe from my long list of ideas. I guess that the inspiration for it comes in form of some kind of Twentieth Century variation.
It is volume number 11 of Soundtrack my Friend’s Drink! This time Adam chose a partner who picked a song for us. While my song chosen by Shelby Mastro was not exactly what I like to hear, I still came up with a tasty drink for it.
Flavoured rums are a thing for a while now, so it is no wonder that also some crazy ones pop up. In this case, we are reviewing the Cinecane Popcorn Rum. While that immediately evokes the association with cinema and therefore cola, I decided to go in a dessert cocktail style drink.
As I mentioned last year when I reviewed several blood orange eau de vies, it is a bit of a trend with European distillers to make one. So, a bit overdue Lantenhammer has weight in, but when they did, they made sure that they did it right. The new blood orange eau de vie is […]
Through this year’s Tropical Month my faith in rum was “somewhat” restored. In the months or even years before that, I was a bit bored by all the sweetened rum out there. Sure, there were trends in the opposite direction, but a lot of them tasted similar. Now, I have to admit that the La […]
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.
Years ago I first encountered Mezan rum on Simon Difford’s Difford’s Guide homepage where he the Panama Don Jose 1995 rum a 5+ rating. For Mr. Difford’s standards this is a very rare rating and I just had to get my hands on a bottle of it. Well, I wanted the rum so badly that […]
It seems that not only bartenders get a bit board by gin, producers are also looking for new products to diversify their portfolio. One great example is Windspiel, after their compelling Windspiel Gin with fitting tonic water and truffles they launched a barrel aged Vodka. Apart from the base they are sharing, both distillates could […]
