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A Guide to Gifting the Best Cocktail Books to Everyone on Your Nice List

VinePair

A cocktail book is the smartest holiday gift. That’s because you can find a book to complement the niche personality of practically anyone on your shopping list without breaking the bank. A book is light enough to squeeze in your suitcase if you’re traveling this season. It’s easy to wrap. Price: $16.07 Price: $27.97

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A Brandy Alexander For Your Holidays

Cocktails with Suderman

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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Mulled Wine With Brandy, Honey, and Spices

Cocktails with Suderman

So after some experimentation, I settled on a simple mulled wine, with honey, brandy, citrus, and spices. I’ve read Kevin Zraly’s Windows on the World wine book. book Cocktail Codex , bartender Dave Fernie writes that “the original Old Fashioned was a way to make shitty booze taste better, and we should honor that.”

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Happy New Year Cocktail - Party Like Its Nineteen Ninety Now

Barina Craft

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. The Daily Cocktail book actually listed the Happy New Year cocktail recipe as their drink of the day recommendation for December 31st back in 2006.* Top off with Champagne.

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A Fruity Bourbon Old Fashioned

Cocktails with Suderman

The Toronto is an Old Fashioned dating back to the first part of the 20th century laced with bitter, minty Fernet-Branca. The Improved Brandy Cocktail , from the same era, does the same but for a brandy Old Fashioned. book, Welcome Home. It’s one of the simplest drinks in the book, and one of the best.

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The Sazerac: The mysterious (and confusing) history of this iconic classic

Australian Bartender

The story which I had always heard was one made famous by Stanley Clisby Arthur, author of 1937 book ‘Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em’. He said that Antoine Peychaud, a New Orleans pharmacist, liked to serve and drink his eponymous bitters mixed with cognac in little cups (called coquetiers).

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At Oregon’s Patricia Green Cellars, Smoke-Tainted Wine Finds New Life as Whiskey

VinePair

For one Oregon winemaker, that story has a different twist – the turning of smoke-tainted wine into brandy and, by extension, whiskey. Anderson and associate winemaker Matthew Russell pulled out every tool they had in their winemaking book to try to salvage what they had. Ever hear the story about how water was turned into wine?

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