The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
September’s Home Bar Awards challenge is about vegetables as cocktail ingredients. Obviously, I had to get some of my vegetable eau de vies out for this! In the end, the result was a umami laced Harvard Cocktail variation.
To keep up with traditions, I am presenting you with the ten best rated spirits on my blog this year. For me personally it was the year of the eau de vie. I never before tasted as many fruit spirits. On top of that, the majority were high quality ones. This is also represented in […]
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, […]
As you might know, I am a big fan of eau de vies. On top of that, I also love apricots. However, compared to apple, pear or plum eau de vies, apricot eau de vies are not that common. A reason for that might be, that it is not that easy to get high-quality apricots. […]
On the Saarland trip with the Trinklaune team, I was given a small bottle of Ferdinand’s Quince Gin. Actually there is some controversy as what to call it here, because the Quince Gin is nor a typical gin, because quince juice and riesling are added. Neither can you call it a liqueur, because there is […]
The whole gin thing was fun for a while, but I feel like the time has come to say goodbye! Of course I am somewhat exaggerating, I will still be enjoying the occasional gin and because I am a bartender I have to be informed about new gins coming to the market, too. Nevertheless, my […]
