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6 Ways to Upgrade Your Bar
Party season’s over, it’s time to re-stock By Chris Koch This article originally appeared in TheSpir.it It’s not your fault, you tried very hard: armfuls of Charles Shaw, a case of Cava from World...
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Woodinville Age Your Own Whiskey Kit
Distilling your own whiskey at home is complicated … not to mention illegal. But if you want the satisfaction of making your own whiskey, here’s a kit that’s pretty close. The Woodinville Age Your Own...
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The Leprechaun’s Pot of Gold (Irisih Absinthetini)
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Essential Glassware – Snifter
If you enjoy drinking brandy or whiskey neat, then a snifter is essential glassware for your home bar. This type of stemware is wide at the bottom with a narrower top. The shape allows you to swirl...
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Shot with a Beer Back
With Tax Day upon us, we thought we’d keep it simple this week. Real easy. Just a shot and a beer. It’s a classic, for sure, designed to ease the pain of writing that check to Uncle Sam. Simply choose...
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Louisville Cocktail
Dress up your bourbon for Derby day! Ingredients: 2 parts Basil Hayden’s Bourbon ½ part Lillet Rouge½ part Lillet Blanc Directions: Combine ingredients and shake over ice. Strain into a chilled...
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Choosing Bourbon for Your Kentucky Derby Mint Julep
With the Kentucky Derby coming up, thoughts are turning to the mint julep. This cocktail has been the signature drink of Churchill Downs since 1938, when they started serving the mint julep in...
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Kentucky Apple Sour
In honor of the Kentucky Derby, here’s a recipe from our book, DIY Cocktails. Horse racing and bourbon go hand in hand, but you don’t have to be in the stands wearing your best seersucker suit or...
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7 Gifts To Make Dad Glad He Had You
Hopefully dad appreciates you just the way you are, but these items can’t hurt in helping him love you just a little bit more … Highland Park 50 With only 275 bottles produced, this prestigious...
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Russell’s Reserve 6-Year-Old Kentucky Rye Whiskey Review
Rye was a favorite spirit in the United States prior to Prohibition. Since then, only a few producers have continued making rye but it is making a comeback. In 2007, Master Distiller Jimmy Russell and...
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Russell’s Reserve 10-Year-Old Kentucky Straight Bourbon
Named for Jimmy Russell, the master distiller of Wild Turkey, the Russell’s Reserve is a small-batch bourbon aged for 10 years. Russell’s Reserve 10 Year is light brown in color with orange highlights...
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Wild Turkey 81 Proof Bourbon Review
One of the six offerings of bourbon from Wild Turkey. The 81 Proof (or 80 as the website says but my bottle reads 81 Proof) is bottled at a slightly lower proof than the original Wild Turkey recipe...
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The Boss
1 part Harvey’s Bristol Cream 2 parts Canadian Club 6 Year Old 2 dashes Orange Bitters Maraschino cherry for garnish Shake Harvey’s Bristol Cream, Canadian Club and bitters with ice. Strain over fresh...
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Holiday Highball
Ingredients:1 oz Baileys Original Irish Cream.5 oz iced coffee1 oz Bulleit Bourbon1/8 oz 2:1 raw sugar syrup3 mint sprigs Directions:Mix coffee and sugar syrup together and set aside. In a highball...
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Maker’s Latte
Ingredients:1 part Maker’s 46™2 tablespoons fresh finely ground espresso4 parts spring water3 parts + 1 part organic whole milk½ cup ice cubes½ part vanilla vodka*1 rock candy swizzle stickFresh...
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Chivas Regal 12 Year Old Scotch Whisky Review
The Chivas Brothers started as grocers in Aberdeen Scotland, then became purveyors of fine food stuffs and liquor, including rum, and starting in 1843, were given a Royal Warrant to supply Queen...
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Ciderhouse Sangria
Ingredients: 1 bottle of Sandeman Founders Reserve Port24 oz apple cider 3 oz rye whiskey 1.5 oz maple syrup2 Granny Smith apples 2 pears Directions: Dice apples and pears and set aside. Mix all...
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Juniper Shine
Ingredients:1 ½ oz Original Moonshine Corn Whiskey ¾ oz lemon juice¾ oz juniper maple syrup½ stock of rosemary Directions:Place all ingredients except the moonshine into a shaking tin and muddle. Add...
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Twelve Days of Christmas Drinks – Day 10
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… Ten Jack Lords a Leaping Ingredients:1 oz Jack Daniels1/4 oz fresh lime juice1/4 oz grenadineOrange twist, garnish Directions:Shake first three...
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The NFL Cocktail Playoffs!
From the frozen tundra of Green Bay to the storied harbors of Baltimore, NFL Playoff football will captivate the minds and hearts of millions of thirsty fans across the world! I’m sure you have the...
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Take Me Out To The Moneyball-game
Ingredients:1 oz Frangelico2 oz Wild Turkey 1011 oz Amaretto.25 oz squeezed lemon juice1 pinch salt4 oz soda waterHandful of Cracker Jack, finely crushed Directions:Rub half a lemon around the rim of...
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Concannon Vineyard Barrels Into Irish Whiskey
What do you get when you combine the oldest, longest-operating, American winery founded by an Irishman and the newest Irish distillery? Concannon Irish Whiskey made in Ireland by acclaimed Cooley...
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Vieux Carre
Vieux Carre or “Old Square” is how the local French refer to the French Quarter. Created at the Hotel Monteleone in 1938 by bartender Walter Bergeron, the Vieux Carre has become one of the...
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Irish Whiskey Cocktails For St. Patty’s Day
There’s nothing quite like having a cocktail made with Irish whiskey for a St. Patrick’s celebration. Although there are many different types of this Irish spirit from single malt and single grain to...
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Tullamore Dew Whiskey Review
It’s that time of year again when everyone is proud to find their Irish roots — whether they have any or not. The cheesy, green beer is practically shoved down your throats and the colorful cocktails...
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Glen Grant 10 Yr. Single Malt Whiskey Review
This scotch is the perfect spirit for beginning scotch drinkers. It expresses the essence of scotch with its soft nose and palate expressions of dried fruit and kernal flavors, such as toffee, with...
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Gotham Chill
Today marks the final episode in Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. It sounds like this will be the darkest and most intense of the three movies. This is hard to imagine given...
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Manhattan 101
Not only is September Bourbon Heritage Month, Jimmy Russell, Wild Turkey’s Master Distiller is celebrarting his 58th year making Bourbon. Here’s their twist on the venerable Manhattan. Raise a...
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Dancing Pines Bourbon Whiskey Review
This bourbon hails from a small craft distillery in Loveland Colorado – the brainchild of a wife-husband-husband’s father combo! Dancing Pines is one of many new craft distilleries that have been...
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Sipping Stones
How to chill a fine Scotch without succumbing to tons of dilution? A question as old as the Whisky itself. Sipping Stones, made of 100% soap stone, solves the problem by not being ice. That’s...
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Hudson New York Corn Whiskey Review
Hudson New York Corn Whiskey was one of the first whiskeys made in New York State following prohibition. From the distiller, “We double distill the corn mash pure and simple. No other flavors or sugar...
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Drink More Whiskey – Book Review
Our friend Daniel Yaffe, founder of Drink Me magazine, recently published his first book . Daniel is clearly a lover of whiskey and this book is his personal homage to the spirit. We can hardly...
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The Sidecar
There are numerous stories on the Sidecar’s origins. However, Harry’s Bar in Paris is generally credited with inventing the Sidecar for a patron who often rode in the sidecar of a motorcycle. Pictured...
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