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Improve Your Brandy Old Fashioned, Too

Cocktails with Suderman

Indeed, that’s how the original Improved Whiskey Cocktail was written up — as a variation on the Improved Brandy Cocktail, the recipe for which appeared on the previous page. The biggest choice you’ll have to make is which brandy to use. This is not my preferred neat sip of brandy. You have many options.

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Prices of premium liquor in Karnataka expected to drop

Spiritz

The prices of premium liquor in Karnataka were expected to drop by around 20 percent, following a significant policy change. The revised rates are the result of amendments to the Karnataka Excise (Excise Duties and Fees) Rules, and are applicable to brandy, whisky, gin, rum, and similar liquors, but not to beer, wine, toddy, and fenny.

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Take Your Leftover Eggnog Liquor and Make Old Fashioneds

Cocktails with Suderman

Unless you made a really, really large batch, you probably had some liquor left over. For a lower-proof mix, we used E&J brandy mixed with Appleton Estate signature rum. You’re not putting more liquor in your Old Fashioned; you’re making a unique spirit blend that gives you a more complex flavor arc.

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The Case for Apple Brandy

Cocktails with Suderman

If I had to pick a single type of liquor that’s most underrated by home bartenders, it would be brandy — and American apple brandy in particular. Apple brandy was a favorite of America’s Founders, and you can still buy something branded as George Washington’s Apple Brandy from the Mount Vernon distillery.

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Review: Sausalito Liquor Co. Marin Coastal Gin and Unsinkable Whiskeys

Drinkhacker

First, I love that a company in the 2020s named itself “Liquor Co.” ” Forget “Distilling” or “Spirits,” Sausalito Liquor Co. “Our goal with Sausalito Liquor Co. “Our goal with Sausalito Liquor Co. “Our goal with Sausalito Liquor Co. Sausalito Liquor Co.

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Cream Cocktails: Where the Cocktail Bar Meets the Dairy Aisle

Imbibe Magazine

It was originally made with gin, but soon migrated to brandy. The Brandy Alexander —made with brandy, white crème de cacao, and cream, shaken to a silken frothiness—was soon knocking on the door of the classic cocktail canon. They’re two parts liquor, one part white crème de cacao, and one and a half to two parts whipping cream.”

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Winter 2024

Cheers

We also cover trends in the brandy/Cognac category; cannabis beverages, reviews of the best wines our panel tasted this year, What I’m Drinking Now, and more. This issue celebrates our 2024 BevX Award winners, the best in beverage!

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