Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor If you’ve followed Libation Lounge for more than a year, you know how much I love vermouth, as I’ve focused a few posts on nothing else over the past three years. If you’re new to Vermouth or have used it forever but are curious to know … Continue reading Cocktails of the Week: Old Hickory & Friends
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Cocktails of the Week: Let’s Tango with a Christmas Negroni!
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor The December holiday season, in my ancestral land of England and elsewhere around the Old World, is also sloe gin time, when we celebrate by macerating berries of the humble blackthorn tree—a/k/a “sloe”—in gin and sweetening the infusion with sugar for purposes of toasting the holidays. … Continue reading Cocktails of the Week: Let’s Tango with a Christmas Negroni!
Cocktail of the Week: A coupla kisses (Yellow Chartreuse style)
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor What is Yellow Chartreuse, and how do I use it? Regular Libation Lounge readers and cocktailing Pinnacle customers are aware that Green Chartreuse is hard to come by lately. Its popularity has skyrocketed due to the current cocktail revival—U.S. consumption has doubled since the start of … Continue reading Cocktail of the Week: A coupla kisses (Yellow Chartreuse style)
Cocktail of the Week: Rum With a Vieux
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor If you like that classic New Orleans cocktail, the Vieux Carre (and puns), you’ll probably love this boozy drink. It's pleasantly, tropically aromatic, tasty, and petite enough to fit in a small coupe or Nick and Nora glass. I found this recipe four years ago in … Continue reading Cocktail of the Week: Rum With a Vieux
Cocktail of the Week: What nigori saké is, and three cocktails to make with it
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor Customers at Pinnacle Wine & Liquor may have noticed by now that we have dramatically expanded our selection of saké, shochu, and other Asian spirits; they’re right beside the checkout counter, so they’re hard to miss. So far, we’ve conducted two in-store saké tastings and a … Continue reading Cocktail of the Week: What nigori saké is, and three cocktails to make with it
Cocktail of the Week: The More Supreme Daiquiri
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor Yes, it’s the More Supreme Daiquiri—a cocktail so delicious that its predecessor, the *Merely* Supreme Daiquiri, is lost to the ages. Two ingredients distinguish this recipe from the conventional rum/lime/sugar Daiquiri: It calls for aged Rhum Agricole in place of a molasses-based rum and a dollop … Continue reading Cocktail of the Week: The More Supreme Daiquiri
Cocktail of the Week: Blanc Vermouth
Presented by Cooks’ World and Pinnacle Wine & Liquor Yes, yes, I know this is supposed to be a cocktail of the week post (fear not, I’ll link to some recipes below), but I want to draw everyone’s attention to an ingredient too few home cocktailers are using: blanc vermouth (its French descriptor, which I’ll … Continue reading Cocktail of the Week: Blanc Vermouth
Cooks’ World/Pinnacle Liquor Cocktail of the Week: The Blackthorn and Other Sloe Gin Delights
The holidays are upon us, and too often this is a season of excess, so if you’re interested in beverages you can sip all evening without shooting holes in your liver and brain, I have two words for you: Sloe. Gin. “Sloe Gin? I’ve heard of that—what is it, anyway?”Sloe gin isn’t quite gin; it’s … Continue reading Cooks’ World/Pinnacle Liquor Cocktail of the Week: The Blackthorn and Other Sloe Gin Delights
Cooks’ World/Pinnacle Liquor Cocktail of the Week: Aquavit Manhattan
Manhattan cocktail fans know the usual burning question is whether the drink’s base spirit should be bourbon, rye, or some combination of the two (bartenders call that a split base). This week we say, “neither.” Instead, we’re replacing the whiskey with aquavit. Pronunciation: Á-ka-veet. Alternate spellings include akvavit and (rarely) akevitt. Since I used Linie … Continue reading Cooks’ World/Pinnacle Liquor Cocktail of the Week: Aquavit Manhattan
I know why you don’t like vermouth
Spoiler alert: It’s not the vermouth. Here’s an actual conversation I had at a recent spirits tasting—and l have some version of this conversation at least once a week with someone somewhere: Customer: “Oh, I like that cocktail. I hate dry vermouth, but I like that cocktail.”Me: “Why do you hate dry vermouth?”Customer: “Because it … Continue reading I know why you don’t like vermouth
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