VinePair

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Liqueurs are some of the most versatile and valuable players in the drinks game. That said, there are many liqueurs on the market that are cloying, unbalanced, or just plain odd. Keep reading for VinePair’s best liqueurs to gift this holiday season. Some are mere experiments that should have never left the drawing board.

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Cocktails with Suderman

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

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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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sweet Vermouth 3 dashes Angostura Bitters Preparation Add all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir until cold and diluted. Photo by Las Californias Gin Gin , Liqueur Figueroa Street Highball Ingredients 1 ½ oz. St George Spiced Pear Liqueur ½ oz. Coffee Liqueur 1/2 oz. Pear Brandy 1 oz. PX Sherry ½ oz.

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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.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 25, 2024

The finalists had been determined by a preliminary round held in June, after which the six highest-scoring spirits in Gin, Rum, Liqueur, American Whiskey, World Whisky, and Agave Spirits advanced to the final round. Spirits of the Year were determined by the judges marking their top three in order.

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Mr. Boston Bartender's Guide

JULY 17, 2023

Liqueur producers typically add flavors and sugar to a base spirit such as brandy, rum, or whiskey to create sweet alcoholic beverages.These beverages often contain herbs, fruits, nuts, or spices, making them flavorful and versatile. Crafted with Cognac and bitter orange peels, it adds a touch of sophistication.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 22, 2024

For the last month or so, we’ve been looking at simple Old Fashioned-style cocktails made with sweet liqueurs at a 4:1 (spirit:liqueur) ratio. These drinks comprise a lesser-known subcategory of cocktails that sits somewhere between the Manhattan and the Old Fashioned — the Liqueur-Sweetened Old Fashioned, or LSOF.

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Cocktails with Suderman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In previous years, this newsletter has always featured a Thanksgiving cocktail: First, there was the Thanksgiving Sour , a basic brandy sour made holiday friendly by an infusion of apple, cinnamon, and other spices. Some years it’s brandy. This week’s drink is based on number 5, the “Sweet Liqueured Sour.”

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Cheers

JUNE 26, 2024

Print Sunset Paradise Course Drinks Keyword butterfly pea flower tea, cranberry, lime, orange juice, peach brandy, tequila, Triple sec, vodka Ingredients ½ oz. Peach brandy 1 ½ oz. Lime juice Vodka float Instructions Combine peach brandy, orange juice, triple sec, lime juice and tequila and shake.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 15, 2024

Germain elderflower liqueur, and orange bitters, laced a rinse of boisterous Scotch. It won’t be the same drink, but it will participate, conceptually, in the same idea — a 4:1 ratio in which a spirit base is sweetened by an unusual liqueur. Cooper Union 1 dash orange bitters ½ ounce St. So many recipes!

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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. By the late 50s Hood River Distillers had begun blending and bottling spirits for distribution throughout the Pacific Northwest.

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PubClub

JULY 9, 2024

Mix of Kalua or coffee liqueur, Russian Vodka and Hot Cocoa and stir. It is made by filling a glass and cocktail shaker with ice, then pouring three equal parts of Irish cream liqueur, coffee liqueur and vodka into a shaker. Stringer For this cocktail, the only ingredients needed are brandy white crème de menthe liqueur.

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A Bar Above

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Chocolate Raspberry Martini Ingredients: 1 1/2 oz Raspberry Vanilla Infused Vodka 3/4 oz Dark Chocolate Liqueur 1/4 oz Raspberry Syrup 2 dashes of Vanilla Bitters Directions: Combine all ingredients into a cocktail shaker tin, add ice, and shake well for 10secs. Strain into Martini or coupe glass.

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VinePair

APRIL 5, 2024

Listen Online Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Sebastian Tollius’s Rye Manhattan Recipe Ingredients Angostura Bitters: 4 dashes (precision dasher) or 2 dashes in regular bottle 2 ½ ounces Michter’s rye 1 ounce Carpano Antica sweet vermouth Garnish: brandied cherry Directions Add all ingredients to a mixing glass with ice.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Toronto is an Old Fashioned dating back to the first part of the 20th century laced with bitter, minty Fernet-Branca. The Improved Whiskey Cocktail is a drink in the Old Fashioned family from the 1800s that adds absinthe and maraschino liqueur to the formula. All of these drinks share an ethos, a structural sensibility.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It showcases the distinctiveness of the cachaça spirit, along with bergamot liqueur, raspberry, lime and lychee. The Harvest Peach at The Lobby Lounge & RawBar in the Fairmont Pacific Rim combines brandy with lemon and white peach, topped with prosecco. Myris nutmeg liqueur ¾ oz.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 14, 2024

Light in mouthfeel and fruit forward, there is nonetheless a somewhat dry presentation with a slightly bitter edge which cuts the sweetness down to a low rumble. oz tangerine syrup or an orange liqueur 0.5 White Heights – GSN’s Remarks: Notes of grapefruit peel and lime zest on the nose. Ingredients: 1.5

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 23, 2024

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. The Yuzu distillate is then married with a touch of Yuzu infusion, a hint of bourbon vanilla, brandy, and Ferrand Cognac.

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 25, 2024

This drink is basically an Income Tax cocktail minus the bitters. AFC North Baltimore Ravens: Purple Hooter - black raspberry liqueur colors these tailgate party potations plum perfect. The “Brunonian” is equal parts bourbon and dry vermouth with a couple dashes of orange bitters.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

You can make a delicious variation of an Old Fashioned using rum, spices, and Jamaican bitters.” Shaken apple brandy, good pomegranate grenadine, and lemon. Apple brandy can be underwhelming on its own, but in a Jack Rose it screams, um… apple! We make a pot and build a solera of spice and brandy additions each day.

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VinePair

APRIL 1, 2024

Spirits Awards 2024 Best Vodka: Rocket Vodka Founder Dariusz Paczuski created Rocket Vodka in homage to his father, a hobbyist distiller who created brandy using a makeshift still and apples from his backyard in Drammen, Norway. On the palate, sweet and bitter notes balance themselves nicely. Best in Show Winners — L.A.

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Cocktails with Suderman

AUGUST 16, 2024

This year, for example, we have looked at a handful of drinks involving apricot booze — both liqueur and brandy. So before the summer closed, I felt compelled to write about the Tradewinds, a devastatingly delicious tiki-ish drink that combines coconut cream and apricot liqueur. The themed approach has several advantages.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Let’s say it’s Friday night and your bar cart is stocked with spirits and liqueurs, but you’re out of cocktail cherries. The Last Word’s mixture of gin, green Chartreuse, Maraschino liqueur, and fresh lime juice is delightfully aromatic despite the lack of garnish, so go ahead and try it at home — if you can find green Chartreuse , that is.

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PubClub

APRIL 6, 2024

crème de pêche, vanilla simple syrup, lemon, lime, dash of Angostura bitters) Huntress Steakhouse (Gaslamp) – Shoot to Kill (Hendrick’s Gin, strawberry shiso shrub, Amaro Nonino, falernum, lemon, egg white) insideOUT (Hillcrest) – Homa’s Nectar (Reyka Vodka, St. Bernard’s Cure All (Tullamore D.E.W.,

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Barina Craft

MAY 31, 2023

Yellow Parrot Drinks Elixir Of Long Life From Wormwood Perch The Yellow Parrot Cocktail is a potent drink mixed with equal parts absinthe, apricot brandy and yellow Chartreuse. Yellow Parrot Cocktail Recipe: ¾ oz absinthe ¾ oz yellow Chartreuse ¾ oz apricot brandy Shake well and strain into a cocktail glass.

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Barina Craft

JUNE 15, 2023

US Open Golf Themed Cocktails Club Cocktail: 2 oz brandy ½ oz maraschino liqueur ½ oz pineapple juice 2 dashes Peychaud’s bitters Probably named for a sporting club or clubhouse rather than a physical golf club with a shaft, grip and head, this drink recipe was first printed in W.C. Does he love beer?

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Tales of the Cocktail

JULY 25, 2024

Held during Tales of the Cocktail, NOSC showcased a live judging across all of its spirits categories, both domestic and international, including whiskey, gin, brandy, baijiu, vodka, rum, agave spirits, liqueurs and non-alcoholic. NOSC is proud to partner with Imbibe Magazine as the competition’s official 2024 Media Partner.

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Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The Cocktail Courier kit for the St-Remy Signature Old Fashioned is a delightful collection of cocktail ingredients, chocolate to pair, and barware to craft a brandy twist on the classic Old Fashioned. The sweet orange and brandy made for a well-balanced take on the classic Old Fashioned.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Despite its popularity, there are still many misconceptions about vermouth, one of the most common being that it’s some type of amaro or liqueur. That’s because its ABV and conventional usages are more in line with a liqueur than what it actually is: a fortified and aromatized wine.

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Good Spirits News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

GSN’s Remarks: We are always on the lookout for new and unusual spirits and liqueurs, and this one really intrigued us. It’s a fruit brandy at its core, but with the addition of South American berries and essential oils, it becomes something entirely unique.

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PubClub

AUGUST 14, 2024

Other rum-centric cocktail favorites include the Negroni Tropicale with coconut oil washed pineapple infused rum, bananarol, and cocchi di torino, and the Caribe Welcome with house rum blend, apricot brandy, lime, fresh coconut water, and coconut cream, served in fresh young coconut. You can add a shot of whiskey for $1.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The recipe, which simply includes one sugar cube, a few dashes of Angostura bitters , and Champagne, was written by legendary bartender Jerry Thomas and first appeared in the “Bon Vivant’s Companion.” The liqueur was allegedly chosen to recreate the color of the region’s beloved red wines.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Depth and Complexity In London’s cocktail world, fruit distillates in general are “mega trendy,” according to Alex Kratena, former head bartender at Artesian and the co-founder of both Tayēr + Elementary and Muyu liqueurs. The bitters, he says, play an important role. “I Garnish with a few drops of Angostura bitters. *To

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

Ingredients 2 ½ ounces bourbon ½ ounce Guinness Demerara syrup* 3 dashes Angostura bitters Garnish: orange twist Directions Add all ingredients to a double rocks glass over one large ice cube. The Guinness Extra Stout reduction adds an unexpected, pleasing strawberry note to the classic cocktail’s austere bouquet of aromas.

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Advanced Mixology

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

ounces of Martini red vermouth, a dash of Absinthe, and 1 dash of orange bitters, shake or stir with ice, and strain into a chilled glass. The lemon adds sourness, while the liqueur offers sweetness. For more depth, add rye whiskey or cognac and a few dashes of Peychaud's bitters, known for their spicy profile. Image Source 3.

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Cocktails with Suderman

APRIL 19, 2024

This is a drink you should drink at the bar; it’s an absolutely superb twist on the fruited Manhattan , with a bit of apple brandy mixed into the base — I keep telling you it goes with everything! — and a little pouch of sweet stuff as garnish that I have no idea how to replicate at home.

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