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Aperol Collins

The cocktail of this week is an Aperol Collins. Somewhere in between an Aperol Spritz and an Aperol Sour, this cocktail is a light refreshing summery drink, that would be recommended to anyone who likes either as an alternative. When […]

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Earl Grey Collins

This week I am sharing an alternative to the cocktail recommendation made in the blog post last week with my take on Earl Grey Syrup. What I have done for this week is creating a lighter alternative to my Earl […]

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Earl Grey Syrup

This week I have decided not to share a cocktail, but an ingredient into one of the cocktails I usually make for others with the best response. I will share how I do, and my writing will not be as […]

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Bee’s Knees

This cocktail from the prohibition era, combines gin, honey and lemon, making it similar to the Gold Rush I posted last week. The story is that the honey was used to mask the poor quality of the “bathtub gin” that […]

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Gold Rush

This is a cocktail that, quite unlike most of those I post is a “new” cocktail. Created in the middle of the first decade this century it combines the concept of two cocktails, the whiskey sour which I posted last […]

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Whisk(e)y Sour

When starting to make cocktails the main advice I could give is to start with a cocktail that you like. However, if you like many cocktails of different types or don’t know what you like but would like to start […]

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The Tuxedo

It may happen that when you search for a specific cocktail with a certain name, another comes up with that same name. The Tuxedo is one of those cocktails. While both the tuxedo cocktails are of the Martini/Manhattan/Martinez-type of cocktail, […]

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New York Sour

This week I share a cocktail which can be used to illustrate how tweaking a cocktail can lead a different cocktail being made. Taking a standard whiskey sour and adding red wine, and optionally an egg white, completely changes the […]

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Mojito

This is a cocktail that is so well known that it needs no introduction. It is also a cocktail of disputed origins like many other cocktails from before the end of the prohibition. However, there are other aspects that may […]

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East India Negroni

Sometimes finding the right cocktail is a challenge. When wanting to do a summery spirit forward cocktail with rum, I was faced with a challenge. While I could have made up some version of another cocktail, I chose to do […]

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Daiquiri

The combination of white rum, lime and sugar in this classic cocktail gives the feeling of summer when imbibed. It is a cocktail of disputed origin, or rather creation, many stories of the creation of the cocktail exist. Taking a […]

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Tommy’s Margarita

This is a variation on the margarita that I posted last week. This one utilizes, instead of Cointreau as a sweetener, agave nectar as sweetener. Though, some use agave nectar as well as orange liqueur in a normal margarita to […]

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