Mixologists

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

This article dives deep into the enchantment of minimalist mixology, exploring the compelling reasons these streamlined drinks are the perfect antidote to hectic weeknights. For mixers, keep a variety of juices, sodas, and bitters on hand. Example: Apple Cider Old Fashioned (2 oz bourbon, 1/2 oz apple cider, 2 dashes cinnamon bitters).

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VinePair

APRIL 11, 2025

Angostura Highball at Amory y Amargo Just in time to celebrate its 14th anniversary, Amor y Amargo the East Village shrine to all things bitter has added a very special Angostura Highball to its menu. A wide range of sakes are on offer, from light and fruity to bitter and umami, with some served cold while others arrive hot.

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VinePair

MARCH 18, 2025

Its semi-savory quality led us at Pitts to pairing it with sumac in a highball, but our house Cosmo recipe uses a hefty pour of the vodka as the base. Its smooth and mixes well, and its flavored variants (particularly the honeysuckle and bitter orange options) arent overly sweet and can be easily incorporated in cocktails as well.

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Mixologists

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This article delves into the art of crafting naturally green drinks, exploring the ingredients, techniques, and recipes that will elevate your celebrations beyond the standard dyed brew. Avoid over-muddling, which can result in a bitter taste. Shake well and strain into a highball glass filled with ice. Add rum and ice.

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VinePair

JUNE 30, 2025

Pedraza whipped up a White Negroni -inspired highball with gin, Bitter Bianco, vermouth, raspberry apricots, and grapefruit. The article Meet the Winner and Finalists of VinePair’s Best New Bartender Competition appeared first on VinePair. Elizabeth Staino, judged the bonus round.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Guests appreciate how Calvados enhances body and adds complexity to drinks, whether served in a simple highball or a reimagined Old Fashioned, says Rivas. Calvados, with its orchard fruit base, offers apple-forward flavors balanced by oak and spice, making it ideal for autumnal cocktails and nuanced twists on classics.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Highballs at Kiko When dining out in the depths of winter, an often unspoken yet wildly important factor in choosing a restaurant is its warmth. Our favorite was the Nashi Highball, made with Japanese whisky , sherry , ginger, and pear cider. The article What to Drink in NYC Right Now (February 2025) appeared first on VinePair.

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Cheers

JANUARY 22, 2025

Strain into highball glass over fresh ice. Print Serpent’s Charm Course Drinks Keyword cherry juice, chocolate bitters, Dewar’s Scotch, Martini Bitter Ingredients 1 oz. Martini & Rossi Bitter 1 oz. . Kumquat juice 1 oz. Shake for 10 seconds.

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

That profile makes this a great selection for highballs and Margaritas, while the price bolsters its selection as a cocktail staple. Its an enjoyable one-two punch, with white pepper bitterness on the finish keeping things complex and offering a distinctive finish.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

At VinePair, we cover trends and developments in whiskey over the course of any given year, both via news and feature articles , as well as dedicated buying guides. Its 44 percent ABV ensures that it will shine as either a neat pour or the base of summertime highballs. The best Japanese whisky is The Hakushu Single Malt Aged 12 Years.

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VinePair

JULY 2, 2025

The Pimm’s Cup cocktail, introduced in the following years, is typically now served as a warm-weather highball. 1, fortify with a spirit if you’d like, maybe dash in some bitters, definitely some citrus soda or ginger ale, a splash of citrus juice, fruits and herbs of your choice — and a lot of ice. Add some Pimm’s No. Maybe it’s time.”

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The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 21, 2025

As Annabel Thomas, founder of Nc’nean Distillery , notes in a guest article for us , “consumer attitudes towards whisky are changing.” As I noted in a previous article , “I am not here to tell you what to do. A simple scotch and soda, also called a Highball, is light, refreshing, and a great place to start.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 17, 2025

An ideal scotch for a growing world of highballs and cocktails. Starts off very sweet and then it just falls away, leads very strongly with aperol, campari, little peat smoke, ashy, orange oil, brown sugar, red vermouth, almost Negroni-like bitterness across the board.” Red Label was designed to be bold, approachable, and easy to mix.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 15, 2025

Muddle a couple of blackberries with sugar and bitters, add Crown Royal Blackberry, and stir over ice. In Iced Tea A splash of Crown Royal Blackberry in unsweetened iced tea with a wedge of lemon makes a quick, refreshing highball. Read the full article at How To Enjoy Crown Royal Blackberry Whisky: Your Expert Guide

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The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 25, 2025

Red Label becomes thinner and a little bitter. The caramel and vanilla blend naturally with cola, making for one of the most popular highball combinations in the world. The grainy bite fights the sweetness and leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste. Its sweetness and body stand up to sugar and bitters. Pick up the Jack.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Bamboo This classic is the second in cocktail history to use a split base of sherry and vermouth and dashes of bitters (the Adonis was the first). Clean Slate In this low-alcohol cocktail, Manzanilla sherry meets bianco vermouth, Salers and Scrappy’s Orleans bitters. Driftwood Spritz A spritz with two types of Italian fizz.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 29, 2024

Fernet-Branca 1 dash Angostura bitters Tools: shaker, strainer Glass: Collins Garnish: fresh orange wedge To mix the cocktail, in a shaker with ice combine all the ingredients. of simple syrup (1:1), 4 dashes of cardamom bitters, and a pinch of salt, then top with enough PX or cream sherry to just cover the cherries (about 5 to 6 oz.).

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

Elegantly off-dry, its flavors and aromatics range from bitter wormwood to white flowers to stone fruit and even marshmallow. 16.96, astorwines.com Contratto Bianco Vermouth Pale golden in the glass, this bianco from Italy’s Piedmont region packs a bitter punch. Here are six bottles to acquaint you with the category.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 8, 2024

The drink is a fusion of Italian aperitivo and Japanese shochu highball, just like bringing the bergamot nomad back to its origin.” Yamamoto’s recipe, Prologue, combined ITALICUS with joto umeshu, citrus mix (lemon and yuzu), Peychaud’s bitters, prosecco, and a garnish of homemade umeshu jelly.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 19, 2024

Explore their sake flights and imbibe their unique highballs with fizzy water supplied by a Toki highball machine. Highlights off the drink menu include full-size cocktail flights that showcase specific spirits and original cocktails such as the MSG Soundsystem with Japanese whisky, sweet vermouth, sake, benedictine, and umami bitters.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 4, 2024

Is it a classic aperitif highball made with Campari, vermouth, and soda water? dry vermouth 1 barspoon Cherry Heering 2 dashes orange bitters Tools: barspoon, strainer Glass: coupe Garnish: cherry Stir all of the ingredients with ice, strain into a chilled glass, then garnish. Americano,” of course, is a term that covers several bases.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Its wine-forward character is dry and cleanly acidic with a soft, supple, spice-accented bitterness. Bitter orange, rhubarb, and mint come through in the aroma, leading to a bracing and enduring bitterness perfectly balanced with an undercurrent of sweetness. regulations prevent the label from mentioning that here.)

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Anastasia is an elevated Rusty Nail made with double-cask scotch, soju, Drambuie, Amaro Nonino, hazelnut Angostura bitters and garnished with a hazelnut chocolate balanced on an absinthe spoon. For something uniquely refreshing, there’s the Gari Gari, a highball made with whisky, ponzu, passion fruit, pickled ginger, and seltzer.

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A Bar Above

JANUARY 5, 2024

We also have other creative mocktail recipes in a variety of articles about Dry January and zero-proof cocktails. Of course, if you’re looking for a quick, zero-proof alternative, you can always add a little non-alcoholic bitters to club soda or muddle some fresh mint for flavor. Garnish with a pineapple wedge.

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this article, we’ll explore the origins of French liqueurs and delve into the production processes of notable brands, including Noces Royales by Spiritique, Arvani by Artez, and several liqueur options by Jules Theuriet and Jahiot. Shake well and strain inta highball glass filled with ice. Noces Royales 1 oz.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

This superpower gives it incredible versatility—whether in an indulgent dessert drink or a light, unfussy highball. coconut water syrup (1:1 coconut water and granulated sugar) 4 dashes walnut bitters Glass: rocks Garnish: pandan leaf Combine all of the ingredients in a small bottle or jar. pandan and oolong–infused rye whiskey 1/2 oz.

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VinePair

AUGUST 28, 2024

The easiest cocktails to master, according to bartenders: Manhattan Cuba Libre Moscow Mule Daiquiri Vodka Martini Old Fashioned Whiskey Highball Honeysuckle Negroni Vodka Soda “The easiest drink to master, from my perspective, is the classic Manhattan. Two ounces whiskey , one ounce sweet vermouth , and two dashes aromatic bitters.

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The Whiskey Wash

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Exploring the Single Barrel collection and the brand’s cocktail recipes, this article suggests five ways to drink these premium Jack Daniel’s whiskies. Mixing whiskey with bitters and sugar syrups, the Old Fashioned is traditionally served over ice. 2/3 fill a highball glass with crushed ice. Strain the liquid into the glass.

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The Whiskey Wash

AUGUST 31, 2024

This award-winning expression has been praised for its use in a whiskey highball. Read the full article at ‘Sweet Or Sour?’ The Bushmills Orchard Spritz On the sweet end of the spectrum, we have the Bushmills Orchard Spritz. The cocktail contains Bushmills 10 Year Old Single Malt Whiskey. Here is how to make it.

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VinePair

MARCH 6, 2024

While it might be tempting to serve it in a highball like many other soda drinks, we prefer enjoying Ranch Water as it was intended: right out of the Topo Chico bottle. The two help offset the bitter and fruity Aperol to keep it balanced. There’s a reason this is the most popular drink for seaside sipping.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The house build of Old Raj overproof gin , fino sherry vermouth, and orange bitters is exemplary on its own. But the real magic comes in the form of a vermouth highball that hits your table at the exact same time, containing mineral water and the “dirty ice” the Martini was stirred with. One of its standouts: the Espresso Tonic.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

After conquering low-lift highballs and easy equal-parts concoctions, most aspiring bartenders are eager to step into the big leagues and attempt more intricate cocktails. What should be an easy equal-parts build with the addition of some Benedictine and bitters proves to be a little more delicate of a balance to strike.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Sure, it’ll make a fine whiskey cola or ginger with bitters. And for the lightness of flavor, it makes a pretty good highball, too.” Beyond the simple highball and Old Fashioned options, advanced mixological implications abound. But it also plays well in sours, especially with baking spices or fruits. Peach and corn?

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VinePair

JANUARY 29, 2024

A carefully balanced mix of whiskey, sweet vermouth, and Angostura bitters, with a cocktail cherry garnish, it is a timeless masterpiece. The palate starts sweet, but is countered by a complex bitter finish. It’s pleasant and approachable on the palate, absent of the grippy bitterness that can be challenging.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 25, 2024

The recipes can be found at the bottom of this article. The glass must be as cold as possible, there must be the perfect ratio of bitters to absinthe to sugar to whiskey, and you must express then discard the lemon twist garnish. Read the full article at Happy National Cocktail Day: 6 Questions with Master Mixologist, Clare Gordon

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The Whiskey Wash

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This drink works really well in high heat or the bitter winter. The Dewar’s 12 Year Old offers an affordable option and is divine in a myriad of cocktails, including a Whisky Highball. Read the full article at 5 Ways To Enjoy A Whisky Liqueur Cocktail You can use any blended whisky you like.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2024

The Cognac and bitter orange flavors from the Grand Marnier add an intriguing spiced quality when combined with cranberry juice. Add ice to highball glasses. This article is sponsored by Campari Group. The article 4 Show-Stopping Large-Format Cocktails for the Ultimate Wintertime Bash appeared first on VinePair.

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