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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 Tiki-ish Daiquiri Colada With Coconut and Apricot

Cocktails with Suderman

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

VinePair

An encyclopedia of cocktail culture, this deep dive into home entertaining essentials comes complete with auxiliary recipes for brandied cherries, brown-butter bourbon, cordials, shrubs, bitters, and more. While tiki drinks are notoriously complex, these streamlined renditions deliver maximum flavor without most of the fuss.

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We Asked 19 Bartenders: What’s the Most Underrated Winter Cocktail?

VinePair

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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We Ask Owner Diego Loret De Mola about Barsol Pisco

Chilled Magazine

Bartenders are experimenting with Pisco Sours by adding various fruits, infusions, and different bitters. Classic cocktails like Negronis, Martinis, and tiki drinks are becoming popular choices for pisco, along with many bars creating their own signature pisco cocktails with local and seasonal ingredients. Vermouth Rosso 1 oz.

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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. All of these drinks share an ethos, a structural sensibility. Become a paid subscriber, and never miss a drink.

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The Cocktail College Podcast: The Fog Cutter (Live From Sunken Harbor Club)

VinePair

In the famous words of tiki godfather Donn Beach, “What one rum can’t do, three rums can.” Can gin truly double as bitters? Light up the tiki torches and tune in for more. For Don the Beachcomber’s version, replace brandy with pisco.) Head to www.zacaparum.com right now to learn more. The cocktail in question?

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