Alcohols by Volume 08: Gin and Tom Collins

The four gin brands include g’vine, martin miller, tanqueray and bombay sapphire. We build Tom Collins, taste and tell you the difference.

Satan’s Whiskers

While we’ve never met Satan, here are his whiskers! Not sure where the name arrived from but this is a gin-style cocktail with both sweet and dry vermouth and a bit of grand marnier (yes, the recipe notes spelled it wrong).

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Alcohols by Volume 07: London Dry Gin

Today we’re looking at a few select brands of gin that run the price range from USD $16 all the way to USD $45. The gin brands include: G’Vine Nouaison, Martin Miller, Tanqueray and Bombay Sapphire. A taste of the London Dry!

Blue Mediterranean Recipe

You’ll find this recipe a quick-to-make cocktail to bust out for New Years Eve festivities. It’s got great color, a nice gin taste with just a hint of sweetness. This cocktail contains a good gin power with the citrus flavor of sprite all while maintaining a cool blue coloring.

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Tokyo Tea Recipe

We’re busting out a crazy recipe for our first recipe of the week: Tokyo Tea. This cocktail has a bunch of different spirits, much like the Long Island Ice Tea, but with midori. The midori brings a good deal of sweetness to a cocktail that usually has very little.

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Dafne Martini

We’re testing out our orange bitters for this episode, Angostura is finally selling them in our area. The Dafne Martini is a dry cocktail with nice elegant flavors and a bitter orange taste all wrapped around some big ol’ gin.
Try this out, see if you taste more pear than we did, perhaps we used too [...]

Cranberry Collins Recipe

Don’t go too far, the day after Thanksgiving is for leftovers! We’re utilizing the cranberry essence once again to create the Cranberry Collins. It’s a slightly sour style cocktail, a bit different than normal around here, but tasty and gin-tastic once again!
We’re using Bombay Sapphire to create this well thought out recipe of simplicity meets [...]

The Axe Murderer Cocktail

This is a overflow from our holiday week but it fits any time of the year as it’s a great potent little number known as the Axe Murderer. This cocktail has nice sweet flavors reflecting that of a tropical/tiki cocktail (with less rum) with a potent finish that reminds you that this cocktail has a [...]

Grateful Dead Cocktail Recipe

Are you afraid yet? You should be. The Grateful Dead cocktail isn’t for the weak at heart, this cocktail brings the power, punch and influence of all its contents. The chambord influences the color while the alcohols influence the punch in the grill, prepare your senses for an odd ride of flavors.
There are no juices [...]

Scorpion Bowl Recipe

We’ve got our first international guest on the show, Oliver comes to us from Austria and he’s a huge cocktail fan. So, in order to “bless” him into the group, we’re creating the Scorpion Bowl cocktail. This is an exotic and extremely dangerous cocktail to say the least, a great deal of alcohol with tastes [...]