How To Make A Negroni Cocktail – Drink Spirits Podcast
On this episode of Drink Spirits Radio we walk you through how to make a negroni cocktail
Whiskey
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How To Make The Perfect Rum Daiquiri – Drink Spirits Podcast
We show you how to make the perfect daiquiri on the Drink Spirits Happy Hour Podcast
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Belvedere Intense Unfiltered 80 Vodka
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..
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Scary Good Spirits & Drinks for Your Halloween Parties
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. There are two great options with spirits to make your Halloween party a hit: Punches and Sweet Spirits. The first (and probably best) option for Halloween parties are punches. Punches actually pre-date cocktails when people used sugar, spice, fruit and water to help take the edge off of high-proof spirits. The same concept works amazingly well now and with all the prep work easily done well before your Halloween party, you can be free to enjoy the festivities.
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4th of July Cocktail – Whiskey Sour
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 to be delicious Sorting and sifting through the various spirits categories, we decided that bourbon would be the perfect base spirit for a hot summer day. There are so many great bourbons out there that are affordable, so it seemed like a great place to start. There are a ton of bourbon drinks out there, with the simplest being the way Maker’s Mark Master Distiller Kevin Smith does it:
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Introducing Juan Collins
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 Punch using iced soda water at the Limmer Hotel in London. The Tom Collins has been made with gin, genever gin and old tom gin throughout various points in history and in 1874 was the brunt of a national joke (known as The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874) where people would go around asking people if they’ve seen “Tom Collins”. The drink would evolve with American whiskey standing in the place of gin and taking on the name John...
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3 Amazing Tequila Drinks
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 which we feel shows off the very best of agave based drinks. The first drink is the Margarita. Perhaps one of the most overdone drinks, the classic margarita isn’t something that looks like a slurpee from 7-11 or even really needs Cointreau to spruce it up. A perfect margarita is a beautiful expression of the agave spirit and how well it connects with citrus. Our absolute favorite maragrita recepie is perhaps the most straight forward and it comes’ from Tommy’s Margarita...
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Esquire Drinks by David Wondrich Review
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 the bat I think it’s important to note that Esquire Drinks is out of print. This is a slightly maddening fact considering how amazing a book it is. I have discovered, however, that almost all of the drinks in Wondrich’s book can be found on the Esquire Drinks site. While it isn’t the same as having this book (which can be purchased online for quite a premium), it is still a way to experience much of what’s contained within the pages of...
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Three Great Gin Drinks
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 usual core note of juniper or one of the other spices and flavors from the botanical bouquet, gin is a virtual toolbox of flavors from which some amazing drinks can be made. On a recent evening I decided to dedicate my entire night to gin. I hopped between two of my favorite Portland, Oregon bars, The Teardrop Lounge and Spints Ale House (with the extremely sharp restauranteur Alyssa Gregg). My first drink was at Spints and it’s a drink that...
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Yeyo Ultra Premium Silver Tequila
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 shot of Patron Tequila. It became clear just how far tequila has come. Soon after trying Patron, I discovered a wide range of tequilas and mezcal which I enjoyed much more. I found I enjoyed the complexity of flavors beyond the simple pepper note of Patron and ones which were not so overbearingly fiery on the finish. I was intrigued when I found out that Yeyo Tequila is being imported and distributed out of Beaverton, Oregon, a city more associated with companies...