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.

Pomegranate Passion Punch

This week we’ve picked a little valentines number that is sure to please your palate. While not exactly pink and exciting in that direction, it’s definitely a cute little shooter for your Sunday. This recipe was build from an original cocktail recipe, in a smaller glass. You can always make a big ol’ glass of [...]

American Dream Shooter Recipe

This fun little shooter tastes a bit like a sweet hazelnut coffee with a nice nutty flavor. Perhaps good as an after dinner shooter if that’s your thing. Each ingredient has its own distinct quality from Kahlua to Creme de Cacao, you’ll have to try the shooter to find them all!
Also, checkout the cool shot [...]

Pineapple Bomber Cocktail Recipe

A creamy textured cocktail with great pineapple structure. The Pineapple Bomber is like its own unique brand of alcohols in flavor style, while warm and inviting (in a cold way) the cocktail brings its own unique style and grace to the collins glass without tasting like any one spirit.
Sure, you’ll get some flavors of nuts [...]

Sandstrom Cocktail

The cocktail of champions, the Sandstrom cocktail is like a beautiful pink lemonade with lime and lemon/lime soda. It’s sweet but keeps a nice strong acidity to help cut through the sweetness and bring a more complex cocktail to life.

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Caramel Sundae

This slightly sweeter cocktail may be a great introductory cocktail as well as a nice after dinner cocktail that brings a bit of that coffee-like attitude in a sweeter sundae style alternative to ice cream. While it brings a dessert quality it doesn’t use juices, sugars or sweetners to get to the end result.
Although, some [...]

Green Eyes Cocktail Recipe

Midori makes a return today (but not all week) for the Green Eyes Cocktail. This cocktail brings more of a sour bite than we typically seem to be making (not on purpose). The taste is deliciously sour, it won’t tear your face off with sours but it will nip at your tender cheek loins.
Great little [...]

Agave Kiss Recipe

Oh yeah, Tequila. We’re making a cocktail with añejo tequila this week. This is a very complex little cocktail with creme de cacao, chambord and some heavy cream. While this cocktail is great for tequila fans, the complexity and maturity of the añejo really makes this a fun drink for a wide audience (especially those that like [...]

Holland Gin Cocktail Recipe

We’re test driving a new form of vodka today, sweet tea vodka. We’re taking one of the recipes from Jeremiah Weed and putting it to to the test, mainly because it also included Bourbon. It’s a full new day, we’ve never had Knob Creek bourbon before and picked that up at the store as well [...]

Bourbon Weed and Water Recipe

We’re test driving a new form of vodka today, sweet tea vodka. We’re taking one of the recipes from Jeremiah Weed and putting it to to the test, mainly because it also included Bourbon. It’s a full new day, we’ve never had Knob Creek bourbon before and picked that up at the store as well [...]