Chilled Magazine

MAY 9, 2024

The bar’s preferred spirits include brandy, rye, rum, gin, and amaro, often enhanced by absinthe, saline, Peychaud’s bitters, or orange blossom water, lending more depth and complexity to their menu. Dornemann believes it is important to meticulously plan and document every detail, even the smallest ones, when you own a bar.

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Bar Head Bartender Brandy Bartending 244

VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A Condensed History of “Punch” The first-ever documented mention of an alcoholic “punch” appeared in 1632, when one of the English East India Company’s men at arms wrote to a fellow merchant who was about to set sail to Bengal. Even better, this workhorse of a method is easy to riff on to impress guests for years to come.

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Simple Syrup Brandy Rum Alcohol 98

Australian Bartender

JUNE 24, 2024

I expected that its story would be quite well documented, with perhaps a squabble over which exact bar in New Orleans had first mixed one, but instead, I opened a can of worms. Meanwhile, another New Orleans based businessman was importing brandy, specifically Sazerac-du-Forge et Fils cognac. How hard could it be?

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Brandy Bar Spoon Bitters Bartender 75

VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

That phenomenon eventually gave way to the advent of the flip in 1874, which was first documented as a shaken cocktail with a whole egg, sugar, brandy or gin , and garnished with nutmeg. This modern flip pays homage to the Guinness’s original St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin.

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Stout Simple Syrup Liqueur Vodka 128

VinePair

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The first documented record of distilling in Scotland appears in a 1494 tax record that reads, “Eight bolls of malt to Friar John Cor wherewith to make aqua vitae,” or “water of life.” By the 1880s, phylloxera had wreaked havoc on wine, brandy , and Cognac production, so Scotch was poised for a boom.

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Bottling Rum Brandy Wine 111

Good Spirits News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

This was the era of the invention of double distillation, which enabled the production of a better quality of brandy: cognac. Luckily, several centuries of archives and detailed documents remained in the family manor, owned today by Maison Ferrand. GSN’s Remarks: Vibrant nose of grape spirit enhanced with a polish of oak.

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Brandy Wine Liqueur 52

VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2024

This wine has a comforting nose with notes of caramel, pear brandy, and almonds. Average price: $125 Rating: 96 See Review Best Sparkling Sweet Wines Ceretto I Vignaioli di Santo Stefano Moscato d’Asti 2022 Asti, an ancient town in the heart of Piedmont’s wine country, is the first documented home of the Moscato grape.

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Wine Bottling Brandy 116