The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
Our choice for the first summer vacation as a family fell on Mallorca. Obviously, this meant that I had to visit Stefan Winterling in his new ‘Casa Eva’ distillery. Luckily, he also was happy to have us and invited us to a gin tasting.
I guess every new gin needs to have a special colour now. However, there are still great gins out there to discover. Especially, if it is a local one. In this case the Ocean Gin comes from the renown vineyard and distillery Fischer.
Sometimes when you start a series, it is a bit hard to see it through. At the same time, even if you are concentrating on one drink, the versions are endless. However, let us get back on track with our little series on Martinis.
The Bramble is an excellent modern classic cocktail which also is a crowd pleaser. However, I until now I never had a blackberry liqueur on hand. While the drink also works with cassis or other berry liqueurs, there is only one original. In this case, I got my hands on the Creme de Mure from […]
One trend with gin is to come up with special seasonal editions. This is just what Citdalle did with their Jardin d’Ete version. On top of a number of different citrus fruits, the gin also uses melons as a special botanical. This is why, I decided to come up with a fresh and summery Highball […]
It has been a while since I last infused a base spirit with something. However, when I discovered a bottled “Jasmine Negroni” I just had to recreate it. So, I bought a high-quality, organic Jasmine tea and cold drip infused Ki No Bi Gin with it. Obviously, you could make any gin cocktail you like […]
It’s been a while since I wrote the last article in this series. However, sometimes there are bottles you just have to revisit from time to time. In this case, this applies to the gin as well as to the eau de vie. Both are excellent spirits which enrich each liquor cabinet. On top of […]
Well, even in our own travels in Ireland, we mainly focused on beer and whiskey. However, the distillery scene on the green island is more diverse than that! This is why the Tourism Ireland invited some fellow Drinkstagrammers and me to an online gin tasting with Mike Tobin. All in all, I want to present […]
The third bottling of gin from the Kyoto Distillery highlights a special botanical also used in the other gins. Obviously, we are talking about green tea. Japanese culture and green tea have a deeply rooted connection and the Ki No Tea reflects that. Of course, this also means that I had to come up with […]
For my second Home Bar Awards drink this month, I again used apples and gin. However, in contrast to my first cocktail using local ingredients, the drink turned out quite fruity. On the one hand this was due to the different apple flavours I added to the mix, but on the other hand I also […]
