A great example of the next wave of vodka is Belvedere Intense Unfiltered 80 Vodka Made from Polish rye, Belvedere Unfiltered preserves more of the flavor and characteristics of a rye-based spirit while still maintaining the easy drinkability and clean finish that vodka drinkers..
When it comes to making drinks for your Halloween party, the last thing you want to do is be stuck at your bar shaking cocktails all night. Halloween also isn’t the time to be busting out your finest spirits. During Halloween people are less concerned with the complexity of your single malt scotch whiskey than they are about the cool costumes. [...]
We at Drink Spirits have been doing a lot of sampling and research to come up with the perfect summer cocktail to celebrate the 4th of July. The criteria we came up with for the drink: It had to be easy drinking Good for hot weather Easy to make Ingredients that you could easily get during the summer It had [...]
The Collins is a quintessential classic cocktail that combines gin, simple syrup, lemon juice and soda. As with many classic drinks, the origin is often up for debate. The Tom Collins first appears in the 1876 edition of Jerry Thomas’ “The Bartender’s Guide ” but (according to BAR) it got its start as a way to stretch out a Gin [...]
Over the past few weeks we’ve been spending a lot of time with tequila and mezcal: sipping it, doing extensive tasting notes and mixing it up. All this lead to our monster piece with over 20 mezcal and tequila reviews and our Top 5 List of Mezcal and Tequila. While we love sipping good tequila and mezcal there are 3 mind blowing cocktails [...]
I’ve been spending time going over Tony Abou-Ganuim‘s new book “The Modern Mixologist” and procrastinating writing up my review of it. I don’t think I really could put my finger on why I wasn’t falling in love with Tony’s beautifully crafted book, until I got my hands on a copy of David Wondrich’s “Esquire Drinks: An Opinionated & Irreverent Guide to Drinking”. Right off [...]
When I started my journey with spirits I didn’t particularly love gin. It wasn’t until I started really tasting a wide spectrum of gins that I realized that I actually really like good gin (especially in the “bartender’s nightmare” – the Ramos Gin Fizz). Good gin has a symphony of notes which a good bartender can play with. Whether it’s the [...]
After a bender trip in Mexico after high school I swore off drinking any and all tequila. In the late 80′s and early 90′s that probably wasn’t a bad thing to do (the big selling point of many tequilas was that they had a worm in the bottle). Flash forward many years and a friend of mine urged me to try a [...]
Through my journey with spirits I’ve found that the better drinks I experience the pickier I get when I go out to drink. Sometimes being picky simply isn’t an option. This past weekend we went to a charity auction and the bar litterally had four options: Wine, Beer, Vodka and Rum (with no mixing ingredients other than juices) My first [...]
I’ve spent a lot of time talking to various bartenders and mixologists and almost universally the drink they say will “send them into the weeds” on a busy night (aka get them irreparably backed up) is the Ramos Gin Fizz. Fortunately (or unfortunately in this case), I tend to drink at bars where I know the bartenders. The upside to this is [...]
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