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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Vodka Mixologist Bitters Highball 233

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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Brandy Vodka Wine Liqueur 110

Cheers

DECEMBER 19, 2024

What goes up must come down, and thats been the case with the brandy and Cognac category. Volume consumption for the brandy and Cognac category declined 10.2% Just one of the leading brands, Sazeracs Paul Masson brandy, posted growth in 2023, and that was a scant 0.3% in 2023 to pre-Covid levels of 12.8

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Brandy Mixologist Bar Club 77

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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Bitters Tiki Gin Bartending 98

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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Aperitif Bitters Wine Bartending 249

Cocktails with Suderman

MARCH 15, 2024

For this year’s Irish whiskey holiday — that’s what it is, right? — we’re going to make one of my favorite Irish whiskey cocktails, the Cooper Union. Like most of Ward’s creations, it’s deceptively simple — an easy-to-make mix of high quality Irish whiskey , St.

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Whiskey Liqueur Bitters Bartending 124

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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Vodka Rum Gin Liqueur 205

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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Whiskey Brandy Wine Bitters 104

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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Brandy Bitters Liqueur Whiskey 64

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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Brandy Vodka Tequila Bartending 198

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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Whiskey Bottling Rum Brandy 134

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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Liquor Gin Whiskey Mixology 106

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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Brandy Inventory Bitters Liqueur 59

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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Brandy Liqueur Bitters Bottling 114

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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Whiskey Brandy Rum Bitters 102

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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Brandy Whiskey Bottling Liquor 134

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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Brandy Simple Syrup Bitters Gin 95

Cocktails with Suderman

DECEMBER 29, 2023

1 Put me outside on a 35-degree evening in a sweater and a pair of thick wool socks, hand me a glass of whiskey, and I’m happy. So after some experimentation, I settled on a simple mulled wine, with honey, brandy, citrus, and spices. For the spirit, I used my go-to inexpensive brandy, E&J XO or VSOP. So many recipes!

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Brandy Wine Bottling Bitters 59

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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Brandy Bartending Bartender Liqueur 52

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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Brandy Whiskey Liqueur Simple Syrup 52

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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Bottling Rum Bitters Vodka 105

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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Bartending Bartender Tiki Rum 112

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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Brandy Vodka Liqueur Rum 98

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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Simple Syrup Mixologist Vodka Muddling 86

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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Brandy Bartending Bartender Gin 52

Cheers

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The Harvest Peach at The Lobby Lounge & RawBar in the Fairmont Pacific Rim combines brandy with lemon and white peach, topped with prosecco. Whiskey Neat in Fort Lauderdale, FL, reinvents the traditional Whiskey Sour with the Peachy Keen, a blend of Old Forester 100 Proof rye, lemon, and peach puree topped with Filthy Cherry juice.

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Liqueur Gin Bitters Pilsner 97

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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Brandy Bitters Whiskey Liqueur 69

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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Simple Syrup Vodka Bitters Liqueur 130

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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Brandy Bar Spoon Bitters Bartending 75

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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Barback Barback Simple Syrup Whiskey 105

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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Bar Brandy Bitters Wine 82

Cocktail Contessa

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The Maple Whiskey Sour puts a fall twist on the classic sour cocktail. Maple Whiskey Sour A rich sip of this bourbon sour embraces the flavors of fall without succumbing to the lure of pumpkin spice everything. But, not just any old version – the maple whiskey sour is a twist on a Boston whiskey sour.

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Whiskey Simple Syrup Bar Tools Bitters 52

The Whiskey Wash

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The Sazerac cocktail is my favorite whiskey cocktail. What I have found in said adventure is that the choice of whiskey in your Sazerac cocktail can make a huge difference to the final product. Some will pack a punch, and some will infuse the cocktail with wonderful whiskey flavors. Then add ice. Set that aside and let it chill.

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Whiskey Bitters Signature Cocktails Rum 52

VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

Sure, there’s the Black & Blonde and the infamous Irish whiskey-Bailey’s-Guinness shot that shall not be named, but there’s a whole realm of creative, low-lift Guinness cocktails primed to elevate any weekend festivities you might have in the works. Stir until chilled. Garnish with an orange twist. *To

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Stout Simple Syrup Liqueur Vodka 128

The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 29, 2024

Whiskey can be ‘finished’ in a wide variety of casks including sherry, port, wine, and Mizunara. Cask finishing allows whiskey creators, distillers, and blenders to explore new profiles in their finished product, with the finishing casks imbuing the whiskey with new and exciting flavors.

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Whiskey Stout Rum Bitters 52

A Bar Above

JANUARY 10, 2024

That’s why you often see them in sour cocktails like the Whiskey Sour , because they help calm down the acidic bite of the citrus. Beautiful white foam on top of the cocktail which can also act as a canvas for “drawing” with bitters or spraying stenciled images. Don’t believe me? Taste The cocktail is OK, but not very balanced.

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Bartending Bartender Bitters Bar 130

Cocktails with Suderman

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

But a lot of different drinks with a lot of different spirits and bitters. You can take a demerara gum syrup and make a very traditional bourbon- or rye-based Old Fashioned — or you can make a four-part, split-base Old Fashioned with mole bitters , adding layers of unusual flavors to the formula. So many recipes!

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Bitters Brandy Rum Whiskey 64