Debuting on Amazon Prime is “SPIRIT: Becoming the World’s Best Bartender” – the documentary about Diageo’s World Class competition from 2022. Diageo’s prestigious World Class Global Bartender of the Year cocktail competition is the setting for the documentary as it reveals the behind-the-scenes back-stories and preparations of three of the world’s best bartenders as they […]
September 6, 2022 – The folks at KO Distilling in Manassas, Virginia created this cocktail using their Bare Knuckle Bourbon, and it sounds like something perfect for a chilly autumn day.
2 ounces of Bare Knuckle Bourbon Whiskey
3/4 ounce lemon ju…
September 6, 2022 – Christine Wiseman of Broken Shaker created this cocktail for Aberfeldy to celebrate National Honey Month. It combines citrus flavors with the honey sweetness found in Aberfeldy 12 Years Old.
1.5 ounces of Aberfeldy 12 Year Old…
Vermont-based rye whiskey producer Whistlepig has launched a UK-based cocktail competition for bartenders called No History No Rules, which challenges bartenders to create a cocktail with Whistlepig 10 Years Old whiskey. Whistlepig’s No History No Rules UK cocktail competition will begin with five regional heats – in London, Scotland, northern and southern regions plus the […]
The Blood and Sand cocktail is probably the second most iconic Scotch cocktail around. The obvious title-owner is the Rob Roy, though I think that crown might be slipping. In recent years, I haven’t seen many bars or restaurants touting their Rob Roys, but it seems like everywhere has a Blood and Sand, a Penicillin, […]
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We’ve hit quite a few classic American Whiskey cocktails already, so I thought it would be nice if we turned our cocktail shakers towards classic Scotch cocktails for a bit and nothing is more classic than the Rob Roy. Created in 1894 at the Waldorf Astoria in NYC as a tribute to an opera of […]
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The Bull and Bear cocktail is a prohibition-era drink that’s usually made with bourbon. It’s flavorful and brings a nice combination of sweet and sour notes that are easily adjusted by playing with your quantities of citrus and grenadine. For example, I don’t have a sweet tooth so when I make mine I usually do […]
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Who doesn’t love a Boulevardier? The classic equal parts cocktail is so easily adjusted it can be modified to mix with any social situation or meal. It’s one of the quintessential whiskey cocktails that can easily be executed with rye or bourbon or even Scotch, Irish, Canadian whiskey or Gin. Though if you sub the […]
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In the mid-1800s (1850ish) a man named Sewell T. Taylor sold his bar, named “Merchants Exchange Coffee House”, to a man named Aaron Bird. Taylor then started importing spirits, like Cognac, and Bird changed the name of the bar to the Sazerac Coffee House. At some point Bird started using Taylor imported Cognac (Sazerac-de-Forge et […]
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In my late 20s I thought I invented the Perfect Manhattan Cocktail. When I started making and drinking Manhattans, all the cocktail books I had mentioned sweet red vermouth, and all the bars in UT made theirs with sweet red vermouth so, to be different, I made mine with dry vermouth. One night, when I […]
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