The Next Level of Homemade Drinks
I always love to combine my travels with distillery visits. This time on our way to Vienna, we visited one of my favourite eau de vie distilleries – Reisetbauer. To make things short, the Reisetbauer distillery is well worth a visit!
Since you can never have enough series going on, I thought I would start a new one. This time it is all about overproof eau de vies. While with whisky and rum overproof is a thing now, eau de vies are usually bottled at drinking-strength. So, we will take a closer look at some exceptions.
Have you ever heard of Sotol? Well I have, but until now I did not try one myself. Yet, the folks behind Dr. Sours wanted to change that. So, here we are taking a closer look at the Sotomayor Sotol. Luckily, I had some bergamot lemonade essence on hand which seemed like a perfect fit […]
You know how it is, you have great cocktail ideas, but you cannot try them all! At the same time, when you do it happens that you get not to write about them. However, inspired by Torben from Empirebrick of Gin, I decided to publish some of them anyway. (It seems like I was quite […]
The eau de vies distilled by Matthias Sievert continue to extend their lead in flavour further and further. This time I was extremely lucky to try to of Matthias recent bottlings, the Hintperi Raspberry eau de vie and the Sudachi eau de vie. While the former is distilled from fermenting the berries, the latter uses […]
When you have a raspberry eau de vie and a Swiss stone pine wood liqueur on hand what should you do with it? Well, believe it or not, but the first drink which sprang to my mind was the Bramble. While replacing the gin with the raspberry eau de vie might be comprehensible, to switch […]
So it is Valentine’s Day, and I thought I would write about a matching cocktail. Yes I know, I am in the middle of „Tropical Month“, but I just had the idea for this drink and thought you would not mind the little detour. For the recipe I combined gin, orange eau de vie, rose […]
While I have too many bottles stacking up here to really participate in Dry January, I applaud the idea. On top of that, I have to admit that I am treating non-alcoholic cocktails more like an afterthought. Nevertheless, I do believe that creating a good non-alcoholic cocktail is more difficult than creating one with booze. […]
There is a few new products from the renown German eau de vie distiller Schladerer. They had their 175-year anniversary in 2019 and in the merge of that they launched a gin and an apéritif. While a green version of the Vincent Aperitif was shortly available in the 2000s, the Gretchen Gin dates back to […]
After tasting the Woodland Pink Gin a few weeks ago, I decided to review the Dry Gin from the Woodland distillery, too. On top of that, I had a spiced syrup on hand and wanted to try it out. The perfect drink for this seemed to be a kind of Bramble variation. This modern classic […]
