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Improve Your Brandy Old Fashioned, Too

Cocktails with Suderman

In last week’s newsletter, I wrote about the Improved Whiskey Cocktail , a variation on the Whiskey Cocktail, which was a predecessor to the Old Fashioned. You take a simple cocktail structure — whiskey! The biggest choice you’ll have to make is which brandy to use. But the basic idea remains the same.

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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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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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We’re Recapping Chilled 100 ELEVATE! Meet the Brands

Chilled Magazine

In a speed-dating style setup, ELEVATE attendees at a Meet the Brands seminar got the opportunity to sample multiple kinds of liquor while learning the basics of the brands behind them. Also in the room was Bespoken Spirits, which uses proprietary technology to create American whiskey.

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A Thanksgiving Sidecar With Jellied Cranberry Sauce, Maple Syrup, Apple Brandy, Whiskey, and Pumpkin Spice Sugar

Cocktails with Suderman

In previous years, this newsletter has always featured a Thanksgiving cocktail: First, there was the Thanksgiving Sour , a basic brandy sour made holiday friendly by an infusion of apple, cinnamon, and other spices. And at some point during the process, she usually asks me for a bottle of liquor. Some years it’s brandy.

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Whiskey From… Macy’s? Decades Before the Bourbon Boom, Department Stores Sold Private-Label Booze

VinePair

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. Liquor stores often had bottles prepared for them by distillers.”

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The Mount Rushmore of Rye, According to 7 Whiskey Experts

VinePair

If there’s one thing whiskey fans love, it’s superlatives. All spirits must be American rye whiskeys. It must be a rye whiskey under the definition during the period in which it was bottled. Interviewees could only choose rye whiskeys they’ve personally sampled. Oldest, highest proof, rarest — we covet them all.

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