The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
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 […]
As promised in my article on the Spiritus Rex Bloody O, I wanted to take a closer look at other blood orange eau de vies out there. Since a lot of distilleries discovered this Mediterranean fruit for them, I ended up with 14 different ones to try. All of them come from Austria or Germany, […]
Continuing my quest to find extraordinary eau de vies, I again want to present a fruit brandy from Florian Faude to you. I have featured many of his eau de vies over the years, however I never had a cask aged version. So, this time it is all about a barrel aged apple eau de […]
This week is again about gin. I already reviewed the B My Gin, but the new edition comes with a slightly higher alcohol content. This is also the reason why I had to give the already great gin another try. On top of that, this article also features a oak aged plum eau de vie […]
I know, I complained a lot about new gins still being introduced to the market… Well, I resigned, I will just appreciate every new drop of gin as a contribution to the diversity of the gin world! In this case however, I am pretty excited to try this new bottle of gin for various reasons: […]
Two weeks ago I presented Florian Faude’s magnificent cucumber eau de vie to you. Yet, it was not the only vegetal eau de vie Florian was kind enough to provide me with. The second one, a beetroot eau de vie was kind of a big challenge to mix with. Yet, it was totally worth the […]
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 […]
The last few days were the hottest since records began! With this kind of weather I was not in the mood for highproof spirits. Gladly I had just the right stuff on hand: Rhubarb Liqueur made by Florian Faude!
