VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

The cocktail combines equal parts vodka, rum, tequila, gin, and triple sec ironically containing almost every ingredient in the book besides tea. The recipe calls for light rum, dark rum, and overproof rum, not to mention apricot brandy and grenadine. Either way, the drink is truly a powerhouse of booze.

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Bar Rum Simple Syrup Gin 110

Drinkhacker

MAY 17, 2024

Mai Tai The story of the Mai Tai is the story of tiki, one of the most iconic drinks – if not the most iconic drink – to come out of ‘40s rum culture. Designed by Trader Vic himself in 1944 in his Oakland watering hole, it’s a deceptively simple drink that, nonetheless, is invariably bastardized outside of high-end and tiki bars. (If

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Simple Syrup Gin Rum Tequila 121

VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It also sold two brands of in-house rye , two types of Scotch , a vodka , brandy , and several cordials. ” Marco’s, a famous liquor purveyor in Chicago, whose operators published the 1937 cocktail book “The How and When,” sold its own brand of four-year-old bourbon. Macy’s was not alone.

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Whiskey Liquor Rum Gin 111

VinePair

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

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. Winter cocktails don’t have to adhere to the rules of rich reds, big bourbons , or brandy drinks.

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Bartender Bartending Tiki Rum 116

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. More than 439 registrants entered the competition, which were reviewed by a panel of industry professionals.

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Speed Rack Vodka Brandy Gin 94

Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Improved Brandy Cocktail , from the same era, does the same but for a brandy Old Fashioned. It’s a fruited Old Fashioned that adds pineapple — via pineapple liqueur — to the mix, along with a specialized bitters, taking a basic version of the drink in an almost tiki-ish direction. book, Welcome Home.

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Brandy Tiki Liqueur Bartender 64

VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Zombie This famous tropical drink was created by an equally iconic person in the tiki cocktail movement: Donn Beach. It’s only right that this drink was created in Islamorada, an island in the Florida Keys, by “Tiki John” Ebert in the 1950s. Reiner had discovered the cocktail in an old book, and set out to perfect it.

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Rum Liqueur Bartender Bartending 105