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Review: Watershed Distillery Bottled in Bond Bourbon, Apple Brandy Finished Whiskey, and Old Fashioned

Drinkhacker

Today we step back to the prologue with a few tamer releases — their bonded 4 year old Straight Bourbon Whiskey and an interesting blend of their straight bourbon with bourbon that has been finished in apple brandy casks. Rounding out today’s trio is their RTD Old Fashioned in a bottle. Let’s start the tour.

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Improve Your Brandy Old Fashioned, Too

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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. We’ll make a few adjustments, including a bitters combo, a demerara gum syrup, and an orange peel for garnish instead of a lemon.

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A Complete Guide to Bitters and the Cocktails to Make With Them [Infographic]

VinePair

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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A Brandy Alexander For Your Holidays

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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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The Apple Brandy-Cynar-Bénédictine Challenge

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In this newsletter, I have written the following columns: Put Cynar in Everything The Case for Apple Brandy The Case forBénédictine So it stands to reason that it should be possible to craft a delicious cocktail that combines all three ingredients — and ideally, only those three ingredients. It was not as easy as I expected.

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Yes, Apple Brandy Goes With Cynar Too

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When I made the case for apple brandy last month, I argued that its greatest strength was its ability to partner with just about any other ingredient: whiskey, mezcal, aged rum, cognac, even aquavit — with a little work, apple brandy can harmonize with just about any other base spirit.

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How Drink Pros Take Their Manhattans

Imbibe Magazine

of Averna, and a few dashes of chocolate bitters. But for a cocktail at home, she adds a thin orange or mandarin peel for aromatics, which she often backs up with a dash of Honest John cara cara orange bitters , along with a dash of Angostura bitters. Her go-to combination is 2 oz. of Woodford Double Oaked, 1 oz.

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