Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

The Big Apple, as the city is ironically nicknamed, is seeing a renaissance of classic cocktails like whiskey sours, martinis, and highballs. The smooth and flavorful sipper is a true comfort cocktail, combining Angel’s Envy Rye, Apple Brandy, Apple Cider, House-made Cranberry Shrub, Apple and Pimento Bitters, and Honey.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 5, 2024

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. The nose is on brand, with a very familiar and welcoming citrusy sweetness boosted by that touch of bitters.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 12, 2025

Lost Lantern , an independent bottler based in Vergennes, Vermont, has earned a well-deserved reputation for curating some of the most exceptional single barrels of straight whiskeys from the finest small distilleries across the United States. However, the rising trend of finishing whiskey has become a force that’s hard to ignore.

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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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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

With being whiskey based and spirit forward, there are many high-end whiskey options to choose from, whether it be bourbon, rye, Irish, or local whiskey. Experiment with different aromatic bitters, like chocolate, orange, or Angostura, to go along with the muddled orange, sugar cube, and Luxardo cherry garnish.

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Drinkhacker

JUNE 8, 2024

The operation makes a huge range of products, including whiskey, gin, liqueurs, and ready-to-drink offerings, but it’s a pair of flavored vodkas (made from a corn distillate) that we’re looking at today. While the region is known for its wine production, there’s a thriving craft distilling scene here, too. 80 proof.

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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. Scotch , Vodka , Whiskey The Warrior Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Brandy , Fortified Wine , Vodka Enjoy The Silence Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Alovine Aloe Vera Juice ½ oz. Shake and strain over fresh ice in a large rocks glass.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In recent years, long-defunct whiskey brands have gotten a new lease on life , legacy producers have debuted celebrated one-offs and new permanent line extensions , and Scotch makers have upped their cask-aging ante to unprecedented heights.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Its wine-forward character is dry and cleanly acidic with a soft, supple, spice-accented bitterness. Great with a splash of soda, the noir could also brighten up a Manhattan (especially if you go 50:50 with a robust rye whiskey ). This vermouth is bold enough to stand up to any whiskey in a Manhattan or Rob Roy.

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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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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 23, 2024

In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the Improved Whiskey Cocktail , a variation on the Whiskey Cocktail, which was a predecessor to the Old Fashioned. You take a simple cocktail structure — whiskey! The biggest choice you’ll have to make is which brandy to use. But the basic idea remains the same.

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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. This blend of rye whiskey, Calvados, and vintage Armagnac is the cornerstone of a new single barrel program (more on that later). And I went to a state school. You wont be disappointed.

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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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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2024

For one Oregon winemaker, that story has a different twist – the turning of smoke-tainted wine into brandy and, by extension, whiskey. Even after pulling off these small miracles, the winery was still stuck with what was essentially a lot of very acrid and bitter Pinot (“hot garbage,” as Anderson describes it).

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Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 7, 2025

Rittenhouse rye , this newsletter’s very first recommendation, is the most versatile rye whiskey, and one of if not the single most versatile base ingredients in all of cocktaildom. Apple brandy is the cocktail kingdom’s friendliest spirit. Apple brandy is the cocktail kingdom’s friendliest spirit.

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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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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

My take on a sour- A Sweet Yet Tangy Thang Whiskey Sweet Thang by Anthony Wells - @a.wells Ingredients 2 oz. The vanilla bitters were used to complement the vanilla that is already Edmonds Honor. Red Wine , Whiskey Generational Wealth by Inez Goodwine - @freshnique Ingredients 2 oz. Garnish with Brandy Cherry and Lemon Zest.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In just about eight months, seven different whiskeys have arrived at Drinkhacker HQ, and today we’re finally getting down to reviewing them all. Let’s fire away at this septet of whiskeys. Some grapefruit peel hits on the enduringly savory finish, bittering heavier notes of roasted corn and mushroom. 107 proof.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Thanks to this versatility, apples pair well with almost any spirit, especially brown spirits like whiskey. 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. Two final dashes of orange bitters bring balance and a citrusy edge.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 9, 2024

Touches of lime leaf and grapefruit peel give the finish a somewhat bitter rush. Boldly fruity on the nose, the wine influence is significant here — and you can get a hint of it in the color of the whiskey, too. The herbal aromas cling to the environment, giving the whiskey a lingering pungency. I’m eying tonic.

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VinePair

MARCH 14, 2024

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. All spirits must be American rye whiskeys. It must be a rye whiskey under the definition during the period in which it was bottled. Interviewees could only choose rye whiskeys they’ve personally sampled. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all.

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Chilled Magazine

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Whiskey Golden Flower by Brenda Riepenhoff - @briepenh Ingredients 2 oz. 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. of whiskey, leaving at room temperature for two hours.

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Cocktails with Suderman

JANUARY 7, 2025

Cynar is earthy, intense, subtly sweet, and intriguingly bitter. Like a great character actor with some eccentric qualities who nevertheless occasionally finds his way into leading roles—think Paul Giamatti, who also balances sweet, bitter, and complex—Cynar really can do just about everything. So many recipes!

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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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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. It all comes together with a couple dashes of fruity, bitter Peychaud’s bitters.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

And while it’s probably a stretch to call bourbon “America’s native spirit” — that title could equally go to apple brandy or rye whiskey — it’s certainly a distinctly American product anyone in the U.S.A. Since the whiskey boom in the mid-2010s, some states are practically neck deep in craft bourbon.

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VinePair

APRIL 5, 2024

From the very beginning, as one of the oldest distilleries in Tennessee, George Dickel was determined to do things differently — rethink American whiskey using fresh spring water as well as tried-and-true distillation techniques. Garnish with a brandied cherry. Garnish with a brandied cherry. Stir until chilled.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

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). Meanwhile, another New Orleans based businessman was importing brandy, specifically Sazerac-du-Forge et Fils cognac. Either way, the split base Sazerac is an excellent drink.

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Mixologists

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

H3: Base Spirits for Fall: Whiskey, Rum, Brandy & Liqueurs – The Spirit of the Season These spirits are the backbone of your fall creations. H4: Choosing the Right Spirit for Your Seasonal Creations – A Flavor Symphony Whiskey's smoky notes dance beautifully with warm spices.

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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

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. Another year we tried rye whiskey. The answer changes most every year.

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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. I knew…I liked…whiskey…?

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Australian Bartender

APRIL 14, 2024

Think sangria, Rebujito (sherry and lemonade) and Menta Julip, which is, you guessed it, the Bar Louise take on a Mint Julep featuring rye whiskey. Think sangria, Rebujito (sherry and lemonade) and Menta Julip, which is, you guessed it, the Bar Louise take on a Mint Julep featuring rye whiskey. The food offering is fantastic.

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VinePair

APRIL 1, 2024

With such a rich tapestry of spirits at our fingertips, from regimented whiskeys to apéritifs crafted with ingredients that sound more at home in a botanist’s notebook than in a pre-dinner cocktail, selecting which one to purchase can be overwhelming. This Uncle Nearest expression offers a nuanced premium whiskey experience, bottled at 59.2

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Barina Craft

JANUARY 25, 2024

American Football Conference Team Themed Drinks AFC East Buffalo Bills: Buffalo Bill - equal parts apple cider or juice and bourbon or rye whiskey. This drink is basically an Income Tax cocktail minus the bitters. The “Brunonian” is equal parts bourbon and dry vermouth with a couple dashes of orange bitters.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2024

And if you’re a whiskey fan, October is also a time to get excited about Elijah Craig’s Old Fashioned Week , which takes place from October 11th to the 20th. Known as the Father of Bourbon, it was his decision to age whiskey in charred oak barrels in 1798 that made a notable difference in whiskey making.

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