The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
I have to admit that I only discovered the joys of rum from the Foursquare distillery at the beginning of this year. On top of that, it took me far too long to review another bottling here on the blog. This time, the independent bottler 1731 bottles an eight-year-old rum from the distillery in Barbados. […]
There is an ever growing market for high-quality lemonade. Sometimes you just want something refreshing and tasty without alcohol. Yet, on other occasions you crave a special mixer for your spirit of choice. In this case, the Balis Drinks are perfect for both. This is why I took a closer look on all three flavours […]
While I only recently reviewed the regular Reisetbauer Blue Gin here on the blog, there now is another version on the market. In this case, the Reisetbauer Blue Gin Organic uses the same basic recipe of ist predecessor. Yet, it also comes with a special infusion of Reisetbauer Apple eau de vie. Therefore, I was […]
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 […]
Today I want to present a rum to you, I did not get around to write about during this year’s Tropical Month. The Zapatera Reserva 1996 was for ever on my list, but I always postponed buying it. Well, now I am glad that I did, because I might just got my hands on one […]
Well, I came up with this drink as a kind of „Scotch Zombie“, but it did not quite make the cut into „Tropical Month“. While the drink is very good, it did not feel „tropical“ enough. Instead, it reminded me of a more powerful Penicillin Cocktail. This is why I am writing about it now […]
Sometimes a spirit gets so much praise, that it is very hard to live up to that expectation. This, very much was the case with the Transcontinental Rum Line (TCRL) Fiji Rum. On top of that, I made it even harder for the rum, because I paired it with other favourites of mine in a […]
Well, it seems that no matter how hard I try to write about other spirits, I always seem to circle back to mezcal. Of course, there is nothing wrong with tequila’s smoky ancestor, but I thought that I have some interesting ones and that should be enough. However, it turns out that there are still […]
Even when we just talked about apricot eau de vies a few weeks ago, I still am curious to try other apricot spirits. On top of that, there are not a lot of cocktails using apricot eau de vie. So, I take every chance to come up with a new cocktail.
Though alcohol should never be a remedy, there are a few cocktails which are named after one. The most famous example might just be the “Penicillin Cocktail” created by Sam Ross. While my creation certainly tastes very different from the original, it adapts the basic principle of combining ginger notes with citrus and smoke flavours. […]
