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Irish Coffee

This is a cocktail that I personally am not really fond of. Though for me, despite me not liking this particular cocktail, I must share it anyway. For many people there is few cocktails that is better for autumn and […]

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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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Tudor Black Bay Blue

This watch, made by Tudor, has been my first step into luxury timepieces. Tudor being the little brother of Rolex has long history of creating dive watches. Presenting their first dive watch in 1954, only a year after Rolex presented […]

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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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