VinePair

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

You’re a bartender or home bar enthusiast who just made a spirit infusion. However, the infusions dominating the current cocktail bar scene are elevated ingredients made by creative, forward-thinking bartenders as a way to riff on classic builds. As sophisticated as these infusions can be, they also share some low-brow origins.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

This superpower gives it incredible versatility—whether in an indulgent dessert drink or a light, unfussy highball. His work-around involved using rye whiskey infused with oolong tea, a one-two punch of spice and tannins that transforms pandan into a nuanced supporting player. coconut liqueur 1/4 oz. dry vermouth 3/4 oz.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

When describing the taste of Jeppson’s Malört , Chicago’s infamous wormwood-based liqueur, people tend to get creative. Even fairer: How did a liqueur so local and so infamous for how rough it tastes go so mainstream? It has the same kind of qualities like gentian liqueurs have. CH Distilling itself encourages such playfulness.

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Australian Bartender

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

1: Caterpillar Downfall 45ml White Rum 20ml Peach Liqueur 10ml Salted Manuka Honey Cardamom Syrup* 45ml Pineapple Puree 15ml Lime Juice 15 leaves Mint Batch rum, liqueur & syrup. Finally, combine the infused water with honey and salt. Allow it to infuse overnight at room temperature. Pour 105ml into chilled coupette.

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Cheers

AUGUST 21, 2024

Strain all contents into a highball over fresh ice. Print Little Death Course Drinks Keyword amaro, Champagne, Ginger syrup, lemon, Peach liqueur Ingredients ½ oz. Juliette peach liqueur 1 oz. Add liqueur, amaro, lemon juice, cucumber syrup, and ginger syrup. Shake vigorously and quickly.

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VinePair

APRIL 25, 2024

The drink, to her mind, is a Daisy featuring tequila , lime juice, and orange liqueur. There’s a Tommy’s Margarita , the modern interpretation that eschews orange liqueur. There’s a Margarita & Soda, which reinvents the drink as a highball. It includes Sorel liqueur and Jamaican jerk bitters. “To 1 sellers.

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VinePair

JUNE 3, 2024

Just like the standard Margarita, Mezcal Margs can be prepared in any number of ways, but we prefer ours with a dash of orange liqueur, fresh-squeezed lime, and a hit of agave nectar. In this variation, the classic Margarita build gets a boost from a bird’s eye chili-infused simple syrup, which provides the build with both sweetness and heat.

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VinePair

MARCH 26, 2024

According to a brand press release, the limited-edition gin is characterized by rich stone fruit flavors, sweet herbal notes, and Hendrick’s classic cucumber-forward profile, making it a prime contender for summer spritzes and refreshing highballs.

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Australian Bartender

JULY 2, 2024

All cocktails at Arlechin are crafted using premium ingredients and in-house infusion techniques. The Gabriel, available for $23, is a highball crafted with high ester rum and housemade strawberry shrub, offering a blend of funky, sweet, and sour flavours topped with soda.

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Australian Bartender

JULY 7, 2024

All cocktails at Arlechin are crafted using premium ingredients and in-house infusion techniques. The Gabriel, available for $23, is a highball crafted with high ester rum and housemade strawberry shrub, offering a blend of funky, sweet, and sour flavours topped with soda.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Strain into a highball glass with ice. Print Christmas Cup Course Drinks Keyword cranberry, gin, Ginger liqueur, lime Ingredients 1 ½ oz. Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur ½ oz. Domaine de Canton ginger liqueur ½ oz. Orange liqueur ½ oz.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Plum Boulevardier at Bar Goto Niban Credit: VinePair Staff You can’t really go wrong with any of the well-crafted cocktails or highballs at Bar Goto Niban (the Sakura Martini, with its mix of gin and sake, is a popular order). But the Plum Boulevardier is the real sleeper hit at the tucked away Park Slope bar.

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VinePair

MAY 21, 2024

But once upon a time, back when Dante opened in 2015, the cocktail to drink was the Garibaldi, an obscure highball made of Campari and “fluffy” orange juice and topped with an orange wedge. It’s made with bourbon, sweet vermouth, Campari, and two Japanese plum liqueurs. The drink is as kicky as the Gibson is gentle.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2024

The build is already pretty perfect, but Ryan Wagner, Brewery Ambassador at Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Maryland, told us how to take it to the next level with Guinness-infused Demerara syrup. Then, add equal parts Demerara syrup and Extra Stout syrup to a saucepan over low heat and stir until syrups are infused. Shake until chilled.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Credit: Jeff Brown While many bars turn to fat-washing or expensive infusions to deliver elevated drinks to their guests, Sebastian found a way to create an experience that can’t be replicated by simply buying the highest quality ingredients; these flavors have to be made with patience and care. Like, a 100-year-old soy sauce — that’s luxury.”

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

If you introduce an esoteric ingredient or infusion just to be different or change up the menu, that’s fine. That doesn’t necessarily mean four to five ingredients is the max, especially if the drink is using a lot of echoing or reinforcing flavors, like peach liqueur and peach purée in the same drink.

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Cheers

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Gins play well with fresh herbs, fruits and produce so they’re a natural choice as a base for more refreshing, citrus-forward cocktails such as highballs, smashes and sours, says All Saints’ Weller. Queen in Miami’s Negroni riff Idol’s Eye, with N3 gin, Campari infused with strawberries and plum wine.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There, Richard has infused his own personality through the use of vintage glassware and other subtle flourishes. Or The Ginza Lights, a mashup between a Chu-Hi/Chūhai (shōchū highball) and a Wray and Ting (Jamaican rum with grapefruit soda). Drinks were sweetened with complex syrups rather than sugar or a liqueur.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The Holiday Super CLAW™ Juicy berry flavors infuse this refreshing, epic holiday party-worthy cocktail, combining the bright and tart flavors of White Claw® Hard Seltzer Black Cherry with the crisp and clean White Claw™ Flavored Vodka Black Cherry. Serve the drink in a highball glass and garnish with an aromatic rosemary sprig and a cherry.

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Spiritz

AUGUST 13, 2024

One of the most popular among these is the sous vide that involves vacuum-sealing ingredients and immersing them in a precisely controlled water bath to infuse flavours. It also allows creating homemade cordials and liqueurs at controlled temperature and in lesser time. This intensifies the flavours and creates unique textures.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

The Vodka Y Soda isn’t just a two-ingredient highball; they add guava and pasilla into the mix, and the result is refreshing and intensely flavorful. to learn about classic cocktails, dig deeper into somewhat esoteric spirits and liqueurs, and to be amazed by the spectacle of a speakeasy inside a hot dog joint or a 17-touch craft drink.

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VinePair

JANUARY 29, 2024

In this case, the golden rule is that the bottle should be a sweet style of vermouth, arriving with an amber — if not vibrant red — hue, and infused with an array of botanicals. Beyond that, it’s a case of diving into the details. Punt e Mes mixes a notably dark Manhattan that looks like an aged oloroso sherry.

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Drinkhacker

MAY 17, 2024

Add ice to a highball glass. How about a rim of spicy salt or an infusion of jalapeno. Mull some cucumber or splash some elderflower liqueur into the mix. Pimm’s No. lemon juice ginger ale or sparkling lemonade mandatory garnishes: cucumber slice, a sprig of mint, strawberry optional garnish: thin slices of orange or lemon.

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VinePair

MARCH 20, 2024

Shinji’s takes this approach to the limit by making their own bespoke liqueurs, leading to new and unique takes on drinks like the Vesper and Last Word. Figuring the pastry crust would be a straight infusion, to my surprise, Juliette avoids adding any cooked, gluten-rich ingredients to her recipes.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Consider this coffee liqueur from California’s Tempus Fugit Spirits for your next round. Bombay Sapphire Premier Cru Bombay Sapphire played a large role in taking London Dry gin mainstream by dialing down the juniper and amping up clean, fresh botanicals through vapor infusion. Average Price: $40 Rating: 92 See Review 47. At the V.S.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Most bars pair the theme of the booth to the cocktail they serve, like Highball Cocktail bar’s alien-themed booth served a Close Encounters cocktail (apple tea-infused Wheatley, Pomp and Whimsy liqueur, sherry, yuzu, orgeat, ginger and Amargo Chuncho bitters).

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Australian Bartender

MARCH 17, 2024

Araña Negre Jordan Lynagh, Bomba Ingredients: 40ml orange infused vodka (add peel of one orange to one bottle vodka, allow to infuse overnight) 15ml Pedro Ximinez Sherry 2.5ml Fernet Branca Top root beer (leave room for ice cream) 1 scoop vanilla ice cream Glass: old school sundae glass or large highball Garnish: grated nutmeg, skewered orange wedge (..)

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

The mixture of bitter Italian liqueur, bubbles, and sweet vermouth results in a vivacious, herbal treat that won’t put you to bed early. See Recipe Thyme-Infused Pumpkin Treat Made with white rum , lemonade, and roasted pumpkin and thyme purée, this cocktail will give you something to be thankful for this year.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The vodka -based drink also contains orange liqueur, freshly squeezed lemon juice, and simple syrup. Though it’s rare that they follow the rest of Vic’s original recipe that included lime juice, orgeat syrup, orange liqueur, and mint, as many modern bars opt for a basic blend of orange juice and rum.

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