VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Old Landmark Bourbon (four-year-old, 86 proof, from Illinois); and Macy’s “40” Whiskey (a blend containing 40 percent Kentucky juice, 86 proof). It also sold two brands of in-house rye , two types of Scotch , a vodka , brandy , and several cordials. Van Winkle first provided liquid for multiple whiskey brands for The Berghoff.

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Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

The story which I had always heard was one made famous by Stanley Clisby Arthur, author of 1937 book ‘Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix ‘Em’. 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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If I were a Wisconsinite today, I’d be pretty excited for the prospect of a New Glarus gin, a New Glarus corn whiskey, or maybe getting a New Glarus brandy for my future Old Fashioneds. (I’m Illuminated Brew Works has their Halloween party on Saturday , and then hosts a Boozy Book Fair at noon on Sunday.

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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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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 4, 2024

The menu includes both perennial offerings and seasonal specials (all about £15), the latter of which I dipped into with the Pear & Gooseberry Highball, a mix of Nc’nean single malt, Christina’s own crab pear whiskey liqueur, honey fermented crab pear, and Idyll gooseberry soda. 6, a blend of Lakes No.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 17, 2024

-RT Sangria 1 bottle of Gamay, Zinfandel, or Garnacha wine (note: it’s okay to go cheap here) 1/2 cup brandy 1/2 cup cranberry juice 1 tablespoon of sugar summer fruits of choice (start with lemons, limes, and oranges), quartered Vigorously mix the juice, sugar, and cut fruit together in a large container. Add wine and brandy and stir well.

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VinePair

JUNE 18, 2024

Then he put his ideas down on paper in his James Beard Award-winning book “ Liquid Intelligence ,” which outlines how to use everything from gravity to milk to seaweed to render a liquid clear. Hedges uses milk to separate out the solids in the base of whiskey, fresh lemon, and simple syrup and kegs that mixture.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Mix, who co-owns pan-Latin cocktail bar Leyenda in Brooklyn and literally wrote the book on Latin American spirits, has long championed the Peruvian grape distillate both as a versatile cocktail component and as a neat sipping spirit, and for good reason. For one, like other grape-based brandies, Pisco has a season.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 29, 2024

In generations past, imbibers didn’t care to know every minute detail of how their favorite brandy or whiskey was produced. Nat Harry’s Spirits Distilled: A Guide to the Ingredients Behind a Better Bottle is the book that modern consumers want. Nat Harry has succeeded in writing a unique book that needs to exist.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 9, 2024

This book is considered one of the foremost works on scotch whisky, bringing the secrets of the Scottish Highlands to the wider population, and educating the public about the water of life. Whisky: The New Brandy? Brandy was, for a long time, the preferred drink amongst the upper classes of England.

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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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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. I’ve read Kevin Zraly’s Windows on the World wine book. So many recipes!

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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. Spirits of the Year were determined by the judges marking their top three in order.

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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. Bitters and liquor can raise the temperature just as much as a glass of hot water and whiskey.”

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VinePair

JUNE 6, 2024

Owner Harry McElhone credits the drink to American writer Erskine Gwynne in his 1927 book “ Barflies and Cocktails ,” but fails to mention how it’s served. I don’t want whiskey to become flabby at all,” he says. At some point bourbon supplanted brandy, egg white and sometimes red wine were added, and a rocks serve became common.

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Cocktails with Suderman

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The Improved Whiskey Cocktail is a drink in the Old Fashioned family from the 1800s that adds absinthe and maraschino liqueur to the formula. The Improved Brandy Cocktail , from the same era, does the same but for a brandy Old Fashioned. book, Welcome Home. All of these drinks share an ethos, a structural sensibility.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Since the drink was so powerful — with a blend of three types of rum, apricot brandy , falernum liqueur, grenadine, lime, and pineapple juice — Beach was known to only serve two per customer, which only made it all the more appealing. Reiner had discovered the cocktail in an old book, and set out to perfect it.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A 160-Year Heritage “Only after working in London was Jerry Thomas inspired to write ‘The Bartender’s Guide,’ the first book to contain cocktail recipes,” explains Jared Brown, cocktail historian and master distiller at Sipsmith Gin. “He The journey to the top has not been without its ups and downs.

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Barina Craft

MARCH 28, 2023

Some mixologists suggest that the French 75 was first made with brandy, not gin, which would certainly be more in line with the tastes of the French. 5 As for being made with brandy, the “75” drink recipe was first made with brandy and gin. French 85 - brandy based along with other similar drinks listed as French 125.

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VinePair

JUNE 20, 2024

This coverage culminated in “ Dusty Booze ,” a recently published book on the topic by journalist Aaron Goldfarb. I also recently discovered that a certain kind of brandy is no longer going to be produced. New York Sour Apple Liqueur out of Colorado. I bought them all. But I’m not going to tell you what it is.

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Drinkhacker

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Bourbon – New Riff Kentucky Straight Bourbon 8 Years Old ($80) – I don’t think any up-and-coming distillery is more exciting today than New Riff, which is putting out a bevy of new whiskeys (including single malt) and experimenting with a wide range of styles. Brandy – Hennessy Master Blender’s Selection No. Want to get wild?

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

There’s an Old Fashioned riff named Base Camp; the Straight Up, a spin on the Manhattan ; a Whiskey Sour ; and a modern classic cocktail, the Penicillin. That is, until you realize that all the above are made not with American whiskey — as you might expect from a bar in the heart of bourbon country — but Scotch. Nothing unusual there.

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The Whiskey Wash

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We may be, first and foremost, a whiskey website, but all of us here have an appreciation for a variety of spirits such as cognac. The Origins of Cognac Cognac, a drink synonymous with French heritage, traces its origins to brandewijn, or brandy. The result is a large ‘C’ in the style of an illuminated manuscript. states.

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Cocktails with Suderman

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Both vermouth and port are fortified wines, which means that during the production process they’ve been bolstered with some sort of distilled spirit, such as grape brandy. It was prized for its intensity and robust flavor profile, somewhat like whiskey today. Embury devotes a few pages to discussing port wine early in the book.

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VinePair

MARCH 25, 2025

1939 book The Gentlemans Companion. While the recipe featured in Bakers book originally called for cherry brandy, most versions of the drink now call for Cherry Heering for its sweeter profile. With a bar spoon of Cynar added for vegetal bitterness, the Southpaw is warm, comforting, and ideal for sipping next to a campfire.

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VinePair

MARCH 3, 2025

Iberian brandy and Spanish-influenced rum producers like Guatemala’s Zacapa have leveraged it both as a production tool and key marketing message for decades, while whiskies from Scotland continue to employ some form of the system for certain products. We were amazed the process hadnt been used for aging American whiskeys before.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Expect to encounter all facets of American whiskey represented, as well as stellar offerings from Scotland and Japan. Most exciting of all: Every year since this roundup’s inception, a whiskey has clinched the No. All things told, each ranking takes into consideration more than a thousand bottles submitted and tasted.

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Cocktails with Suderman

MAY 2, 2025

Speaking of Mint Juleps Each year when the Kentucky Derby approaches, I think of the opening lines to Richard Barksdale Harwell’s delightful 1975 book on the Mint Julep: “Wherever there is a Mint Julep, there is a bit of the Old South. We’ll talk a lot about ice. It’s true of the Julep too.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“The Savoy Cocktail Book” is one of the most important tomes in the world of cocktail literature. Published in 1930, the book was compiled by bartender Harry Craddock, who served as the head bartender at the Savoy Hotel’s American Bar in London for over a decade. At least it would then just read as a riff on a Brandy Milk Punch.

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Drinkhacker

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

If youre a fan of pre-Prohibition cocktails, youll see a vast number of recipes that contain either brandy or Cognac. Before whiskey became the common base spirit, people often made their Old Fashioneds with brandy. Cognac is a type of brandy, but not all brandy is Cognac. I think we are missing out, though.

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Bartender.com

APRIL 10, 2025

Invest in a Reliable Bar Cart for Convenient Storage A reliable bar cart offers convenient storage for essential tools and ingredients, making it easier to craft cocktails like Tom Collins or brandy-based drinks. Other must-have accessories include a wine opener for red wine bottles and a cocktail recipe book for inspiration.

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