From Karen MacLeod, via Craft Cocktail Club. Is Karen trying to tell me something? She tagged me in this post of hers, and said“I made this drink a while ago but I used grapefruit instead of orange juice. It was good, but now we are in peak navel orange season and I made a much […]

Recipe from Imbibe Magazine 45ml Dry Gin-Beefeater7.5ml Yellow Chartreuse15ml Sloe Gin-Sipsmith’s30ml White Port Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Stir until chilled and strain into a Nick and Nora glass. Garnish with a cherry

Andrew Hunt posted this in Craft Cocktail Club, and saidNot sure what to call it, but it’s quite good.So I think that’s a good enough name anyway. 45ml gin (I used St George Terrior) I used Bombay22.5ml lemon juice7.5ml homemade allspice dram7.5ml Benedictine10ml rich simple1 dash cardamom bitters It’s come I’m foggy already, here in […]

In August and September, we went for a trip to France. It’s back in the day when it was still ok to cross borders, but not necessarily mingle with the locals. We first spent a week in Normandy, the. The next week in Brittany, then the 3rd in Burgundy. Each week was at an isolated […]

Another drink for February’s Gin month. And also another drink from a girl named Michele. I had made a Blackberry and Apple infused gin a while ago, even pre covid discovering home bartending 101 😉. I hadn’t used it a lot in mixed drinks, mostly just neat, over ice. But when I saw Michele’s drink, […]

I got this recipe from the Craft Cocktail Club site on fb. And from a girl name Michele specifically. I haven’t had Galliano, since my late teen days, when the Harvey Wallbanger was an ‘in’ drink. (Along with Cinzano served with nasty orange juice.) My sister, Kathryn, and I used to frequent this place in […]

When you need to be somewhere else, other than where you are right now. It’s a kind of blizzardy day in Downtown Amsterdam right now, so much so, that the snow is even blowing through the vents into the atrium of our building. So it’s something reminiscent of a tropical kind of place, to ease […]

An original. I saw a gin advertised the other day, Kala Gin, that had amongst its ingredients, kumquat, cacao, and hops. And I thought to myself, “I can do that with the kumquat gin I made a couple of months ago.” I had infused gin with various fruits, mostly for something to do while we […]

The Cardamom Rose Sour is a fantastic cocktail made with a homemade rose simple syrup, fresh citrus, and bitters ~ it’s got a gorgeous pink color! One of the fun things for me to do, is make my own components to the cocktail as well, when I can. I recently bought an iSi Whip, and […]