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All You Need For A Successful Dry January: Mocktail Recipes, Ingredients, And Tips

A Bar Above

3/4 oz Passionfruit Syrup 1/4 oz Lime Juice 3 Mint Leaves 4 oz of Soda Water/Club Soda INSTRUCTIONS: Muddle mint leaves in a Collins glass. 1/2 oz Elderflower Syrup 1/2 oz Lemon Juice 3 slices of Cucumber 4 oz Tonic Water INSTRUCTIONS: Muddle the cucumbers in a shaker tin. Add all other ingredients without ice.

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6 of the Best Bourbon Cocktails for Spring

VinePair

See Recipe The Mint Julep There are few bourbon cocktails as refreshing and ubiquitous as the Mint Julep: a simple blend of bourbon, simple syrup, and muddled mint mingling under a mountain of crushed ice. The drink first appeared in London bartender William James Tarling’s “ Café Royal Cocktail Book ,” published in 1937.

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The Ultimate Gift Guide for Bartenders

A Bar Above

They are usually a paltry 9″ long, which is the precise length to ensure that you’ll bust your knuckles open on the side of your pint glass/cocktail shaker every time you muddle a Mint Julep. This hardwood muddler is a full 12″ long to save your knuckles and muddle your mint leaves, herbs, & fruit to perfection! COCKTAIL BOOKS.

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Meet the National Finalists for the VinePair x Elijah Craig Old Fashioned Cocktail Contest

VinePair

That was a really great time to enter the craft scene, and Ill never forget those first few years of reading books recommended by peers and bosses, watching countless hours of Tales of the Cocktail seminars, and getting familiar with aperitifs, amari, and liqueurs, he recalls.

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Ask a Brewer: Is it Safe to Drink the Dregs in Beer Bottles?

VinePair

Books like ‘Nourishing Traditions’ and ‘Deep Nutrition’ have sung the praises of beer for a long time,” Grimm says, “the caveat being that you want unfiltered, unpasteurized beer with yeast and enzymes intact.” I think the dregs muddle the flavor,” he says. “We Pasteurized beer tends to be low on the dreg-o-meter.

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Hilary Sheinbaum’s Picks

Dry Atlas

I recently served it at my latest book launch event. No need to mix, muddle, shake, or stir. STILL (AND SPARKLING) WINE Giesen New Zealand Riesling : Giesen’s range of alcohol-removed still wines are the best tasting and comparable (to wines with alcohol). The Riesling is my current favorite. Milano is great for negronis.

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The Top 10 Summer Cocktails of All Time

Drinkhacker

Heck, there’s even a full book deconstructing it element by element. A few leaves, muddled in the glass, and I’m halfway to summer. lime juice 2 tablespoons simple syrup club soda 5 leaves fresh mint plus 2 more for garnish slice of lime for garnish Muddle the mint and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. RL Mojito 2 oz.