My home bar is the best bar because of gifts like this from people like my sister-in-law who has always supported and continues to encourage my research and experiments as a bartender.
It must be in the DNA. My wife and her parents are similarly some of my all time best test subjects.
Filed under HOME BAR, NEW PRODUCT, NEW TO ME, SHRUBS, SHRUBS
This cocktail doesn’t even need a name. It has its own playlist:
Prince. The Eels. The Presidents of the United States of America.
Peaches for you. Peaches for me.
And until now it’s only been available in my brain and at my kitchen table, but I’m nothing if not generous — so here’s the recipe.
The Peach Tease
As mentioned previously, Bag and String Wine Merchants gifted me a bottle of their new exclusive barrel release from Tommyrotter Distillery in Buffalo.
This is my first go at making a fun cocktail with it.
About This Drink
A perfect late summer sipper, as fresh peaches are still readily available and the depth and spice of the barrel aged gin hint at the approaching change of seasons.
It’s The Peach Tease (or Teasy P. if you’re hip and into the whole brevity thing).
Ingredients
Preparation
Filed under 2018, BRANDS, COCKTAIL RECIPES, DISTILLERIES, GIN, HOME BAR, LIQUEURS, PEACH
The flavors in this barrel aged gin are unreal!
I’m very excited to try my hand at making some creative drinks with this Bag & String Wine Merchants exclusive from Buffalo’s Tommy Rotter Distillery!
Filed under BOUTIQUE SHOPS, BRANDS, DISTILLERIES, GIN, HOME BAR, LAKEWOOD, LIQUOR, NEW PRODUCT
•Gin, lemon, strawberries & raspberry lime soda water.
Filed under BOOZE, GIN, HOME BAR, STRAWBERRY
Something simple for tonight:
Filed under GIN, GRAPEFRUIT, HOME BAR
I’m slowly trying out every flavor of Dry Soda.
They just keep tasting better and better. This is easily the best one I’ve had yet:
These sodas are great in their own and are even better when mixed with a spirit, nothing too complicated or fancy.
From their website:
DRY Soda is a less sweet, all natural soda made with just four ingredients, including a little bit of pure cane sugar. Each of DRY’s eleven unique flavors is perfect to sip on its own, pair with a meal or mix into cocktails.
Their 11 flavors are: Blood Orange, Ginger, Vanilla Bean, Apple, Cherry, Rhubarb, Lavender, Juniper Berry, Cucumber, Wild Lime and Pear.
This new flavor of Dry Soda just might be my favorite.
Okay, okay… So the Rhubarb’s probably not a new flavor, but it’s new to me (and it’ll probably only be my favorite until I try their ginger soda).
I had a bottle of this stuff on its own and then I mixed a little with gin, which was nice. I really wanted to make a rye whiskey drink, but it just wasn’t working.
From their website:
DRY Soda is a less sweet, all natural soda made with just four ingredients, including a little bit of pure cane sugar. Each of DRY’s eleven unique flavors is perfect to sip on its own, pair with a meal or mix into cocktails.
Their 11 flavors are: Blood Orange, Ginger, Vanilla Bean, Apple, Cherry, Rhubarb, Lavender, Juniper Berry, Cucumber, Wild Lime and Pear.
New mixers stocking my home bar: Dry Soda Lavender and Cucumber!
So far all I’ve made with ’em is a tall Bols Genever & Dry Cucumber Soda. I guess it’d just be a classic highball variation.
From their website:
DRY Soda is a less sweet, all natural soda made with just four ingredients, including a little bit of pure cane sugar. Each of DRY’s eleven unique flavors is perfect to sip on its own, pair with a meal or mix into cocktails.
Their 11 flavors are: Blood Orange, Ginger, Vanilla Bean, Apple, Cherry, Rhubarb, Lavender, Juniper Berry, Cucumber, Wild Lime and Pear.
I made Cherry Bounce last night between The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson and reruns of Frasier.
Cherry Bounce. It’s pretty easy. I followed this recipe from Imbibe Magazine.
Ingredients
•1 quart whole cherries
•1 750 ml bottle rye whiskey
•1 cup cane sugar
•2 ounces of fresh lemon juice
Directions
Combine the cherries, sugar and lemon juice in a large saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and let cool.
Pour cooled cherry mixture into a large glass jar and add the rye whiskey. Secure the lid, shake to combine and let rest in a cool, dark place for 3 months.
After 3 months, strain into a clean glass jar. If desired, reserve infused cherries for garnishing. The bounce will keep for up to 2 months.
The above recipe text was modified from the Imbibe recipe.
Filed under CHERRY BOUNCE, HOME BAR, LIQUEURS, RYE WHISKEY
I bought my first bottle of Buffalo Trace yesterday for drinking this weekend.
Very tasty. I enjoyed it neat as well as with a bottle of Natural Brew’s “Outrageous Ginger Ale.”
Frontier Mixology 