Cheers

JANUARY 10, 2024

Here are some warming brandy cocktails to brighten up the season’s chill. Print Bull’s Eye Rose Course Drinks Keyword amaro, Angostura bitters, apple brandy, Grenadine, lemon, Luxardo maraschino liqueur, plum vinegar, rye Ingredients 1 oz. Laird’s Apple Brandy ½ oz.

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Brandy Simple Syrup Mixologist Liqueur 105

Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Earl Grey Tea Syrup 1 cup Water 1 cup Sugar 2 Earl Grey Tea Bags 2 dashes Angostura Bitters 1 dash Orange Bitters Preparation Combine water, sugar and Earl Grey tea bags into a saucepan. Combine Talisker 10 Year Old, Earl Grey Tea syrup, Angostura Bitters and orange bitters in a cocktail shaker with ice. Lemon Juice 0.5

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

El Capitán Combining pisco, vermouth, and bitters, this cocktail nods to the classic Manhattan. Summer of Love Punch For a sangria-inspired recipe, Eden Rooftop Bar in Phoenix created this summery pisco punch. Danger Stranger For this cocktail, an orange cream soda syrup sets a playful and nostalgic tone.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

At NYC’s beloved Dante (#1 Best Bar in North America, 2019 & 2020) , Beverage Training Director Renato Tonnelli, who was recently crowned 2023 US World Class Bartender of the Year, has reimagined the 90’s classic Appletini, highlighting the seasonal flavor to create a crisp, herbaceous and elegant drink. Apple Brandy.75

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Lime Juice 3 Dashes Scrappy's Celery Bitters Preparation Combine liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. Top with root beer and garnish with Little Debbie Nutty Buddy Bar and 3 star anises. Brandy , Fortified Wine , Vodka Enjoy The Silence Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Liqueur , Vodka She's A Beauty Ingredients 1 ½ oz.

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

In cocktail bars, bartenders are creating their own spin on classic cocktails. Experiment with different aromatic bitters, like chocolate, orange, or Angostura, to go along with the muddled orange, sugar cube, and Luxardo cherry garnish. Using equal parts of both cognac, rye whiskey, or brandy can produce a new twist.

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It only makes sense that cucumber cocktails are the next big thing, and of course, bars, restaurants, and spirits brands are in on the trend. Brandy , Liqueur Monet’s Impression by Bar Bastion - 610 Lexington Ave, New York, NY Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Calvados ½ Bar spoon Matcha Powder ¼ oz. Check out some recipes below!

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 12, 2025

Lost Lantern Opulent Orchard New York Distilling Apple Brandy Finished Straight Rye Review Opulent Orchard is a revisit to Lost Lantern’s earlier release from New York Distilling , showcasing a 7-year-old blend of ryes finished in apple brandy casks. Still, this is a unique and flavorful whiskey worth trying.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

In our accustomed, crotchety “In my day we had to walk five miles through the snow, uphill each way” manner, we lamented the dearth of choices behind the bar back then, and how much things had changed. Its wine-forward character is dry and cleanly acidic with a soft, supple, spice-accented bitterness.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We ask Diego Loret De Mola about his brand’s practices that continue to elevate the spirits category by delivering the finest quality pisco to bars worldwide. The mission has always been clear, since inception, the bring to every BAR in the world the best Pisco produced under the SOL of Ica. Hence, the brand name BARSOL.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 1806, The Balance and Columbian Repository in upstate New York published what would become known as the original definition of a cocktail: “C**k-tail is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters.” Bitters themselves have evolved, too. Regans’ Orange Bitters No.

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Chilled Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

Founders Albert Peters, Edwin Pooley, and Edgar McClain began making fruit wine and brandies from the abundance of fruit in the region, taking only a brief hiatus to make industrial alcohol for the war effort.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Indeed, that’s how the original Improved Whiskey Cocktail was written up — as a variation on the Improved Brandy Cocktail, the recipe for which appeared on the previous page. If it was good enough for the high-falutin’ cocktail impresarios of the late 1800s, it’s good enough for the home bar now.

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Drinkhacker

MARCH 11, 2025

While single vintage brandy releases continue apace, the brand is now anchored by a flagship brandy-influenced blend, 1928. Dinners (and all other meals) were served family-style in the impressive dining facilities, which doubled as a pre-dinner cocktail bar. And I went to a state school.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The drink blends Rémy V, Cointreau Noir, Bitter Bianco, Cocchi Americano, and tonic for a refreshing and complex spritz. I used some softer flavors like a prickly pear brandy and Manzanilla, a grape-based fortified wine infused with fresh tarragon. José Pérez-Roura of Broken Shaker creating his Zizou Spritz cocktail.

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 14, 2024

Photography by Chris Pearce, drinks styled by Cherish Wilkie at Bar Louise 135 Enmore Road, Enmore @barlouise_enmore With our recent interview with Mikey Nicolian, what better time to showcase some of the drinks from his other bar operation, Bar Louise? The cocktail list is small and concise. The food offering is fantastic.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

There are also dozens of ways to work the fruit into libations with apple brandy, apple juice, syrups, or even fresh slices, though no one method is superior. Featuring applejack or apple brandy , the cocktail is sweetened with grenadine for a tart hint of pomegranate.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

People party at Cityscape bar in San Francisco on New Year’s Eve. Photo: Nick Graham New Year’s Eve in San Francisco takes on many forms and one elevated place – quite literally – to spend it is at Cityscape Bar. Seating is first come, first served unless a bottle service package is purchased. Cocktail attire is requested.

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Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 22, 2023

For the season, there are few better drinks than the Brandy Alexander. It’s an exceptionally simple cocktail, just three ingredients — brandy, creme de cacao, and heavy cream — shaken and strained into a glass, with a bit of nutmeg dusted on top. Happy Friday, and happy holidays. But nevermind this imposition.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The vanilla bitters were used to complement the vanilla that is already Edmonds Honor. Lemon Juice 2 Dashes of Vanilla Bitters Barspoon of Fig Jam A few dashes of Fee Foam or an Egg White Cab Float Dehydrated Fig (for garnish) Preparation Place all ingredients in a cocktail shaker. Garnish with Brandy Cherry and Lemon Zest.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 22, 2024

1 The first one takes the same split base/dual spirit Monte Carlo structure we saw in the Jacko’s End and the El Camino and applies it to apple brandy and peaty Islay Scotch. They’re delicious, easy, interesting cocktails you can make with bottles you might already have on your bar cart.

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Barina Craft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The Happy New Year Cocktail - An Eve(ning) Of Fun Toasts The Happy New Year cocktail is a drink mixed with brandy, ruby port wine, orange juice and champagne. American Rose - brandy, licorice liqueur, grenadine syrup and champagne. Chicago Cocktail - brandy, orange liqueur, aromatic bitters and Champagne. Happy New Year!

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Do you have a question about cocktails, bars, booze, home bartending, or something else related to the topics discussed in this newsletter? Cynar is earthy, intense, subtly sweet, and intriguingly bitter. In this edition of Cocktail Questions : What are you going to do with a bottle of Cynar? Short answer: Anything you want.)

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

She is the co-owner of Goodwater in Melbourne and the face and talent behind the cocktailing YouTube channel Behind the Bar. I expected that its story would be quite well documented, with perhaps a squabble over which exact bar in New Orleans had first mixed one, but instead, I opened a can of worms. How hard could it be?

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Art by Eve Martinez, Copyright A Bar Above 1. Art by Eve Martinez, Copyright A Bar Above 2. Art by Eve Martinez, copyright A Bar Above 3. Art by Eve Martinez, copyright A Bar Above 5. To get you in the holiday spirit , we’ve prepared a festive menu of eight delicious cocktails, one for each night of Hanukkah.

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 4, 2024

Photography by Chris Pearce, drinks styled by Cherish Wilkie at Bar Louise 135 Enmore Road, Enmore @barlouise_enmore With our recent interview with Mikey Nicolian, what better time to showcase some of the drinks from his other bar operation, Bar Louise? The cocktail list is small and concise. The food offering is fantastic.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Mix, who co-owns pan-Latin cocktail bar Leyenda in Brooklyn and literally wrote the book on Latin American spirits, has long championed the Peruvian grape distillate both as a versatile cocktail component and as a neat sipping spirit, and for good reason. And year after year, she’s disappointed.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

2:1 White Grape Honey Syrup 3 dashes Angostura Bitters White grape on a pick with a lemon curl (for garnish) Preparation Add all ingredients to a mixing glass and stir, strain over sphere in a rocks glass. Pour into coupe, garnish with chocolate bitters and bruled banana slice. Brown Butter Washed Edmond's Honor Bourbon oz.

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 23, 2024

This new, limited edition offering comes courtesy of Maison Ferrand and longtime partner David Wondrich, whose Dry Curacao is a high-end bar staple. Here are all the particulars: “We wanted to create a Curaçao that showcases the fascinating aromatics of Yuzu in a sophisticated 19th century style brought forward by brandy and cognac.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A new menu of five Caribbean cocktails created by Wondrich feature the flavors of the region, while a pirate-inspired rum punch that debuted last season will make a return to the bars and lounges. Big Youth: Planteray Xaymaca rum and Smith and Cross rum, sweetened condensed milk, coconut water, bitters and nutmeg.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

And it’s a story that results in one of my favorite clever drink variations — an apple brandy-forward riff on the Penicillin (a honey-ginger Scotch whisky sour) that I’ve never seen published anywhere. You’ll need bottles of apple brandy and Scotch whisky.

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A Bar Above

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Recipe : 2 oz Pisco Brandy 1 oz Fresh Lime Juice 3/4 oz Simple Syrup 3/4 oz Egg Whites about 1 egg white 5 dashes Angostura Bitters for garnish Photo by Ferals Studio via www.unsplash.com The Results: Without Egg Whites With Egg Whites Texture & Appearance No foam. Taste The cocktail is OK, but not very balanced.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The Margarita is just such a vehicle for tequila — it’s just one of the most popular cocktails that gets ordered across any bar program, if not the most popular cocktail,” Davidson says. Credit: Swizzle Rum Bar & Drinkery That said, less is often more, he notes. The bitters, he says, play an important role. “I

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 1, 2025

History Of The Duck Fart Cocktail A 70 year old woman, name unknown, walks into a bar* in Anchorage, Alaska in December, 1987 and asks bartender Dave Schmidt for a shot of tequila, followed by a B-52 and then a Grasshopper.* Another has him wearing a rubber ducky style duck bill that night while tending bar. One walks into a bar.

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PubClub

AUGUST 14, 2024

16 and these San Diego bars are marking the occasion with rum drinks and specials. They are: The Mavericks Mai Tai at Mavericks Beach Club , one of the most popular bars in Pacific Beach, is a boozy concoction made with Bacardi Dark & White Rum orange juice, lime, mango, amaretto, orgeat and a floater of Myers.

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VinePair

APRIL 17, 2024

Naturally, it was the only choice for a celebratory drink after the ceremony, so once the cap and gown were hung up, I ponied up to the bar. All it takes is the right budget to build one of those bars. There’s a reason so many establishments have that aura of sameness to their bar programs and it starts on the backbar.

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

It may not be priced for well drinks at a bar, but home bartenders can pick it up for cocktails and your cocktail game will be infinitely improved by doing so. Its an enjoyable one-two punch, with white pepper bitterness on the finish keeping things complex and offering a distinctive finish. But vault over that bar it did.

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