The Balrog shooter doesn’t seem to have anything to do with the Lord of the Rings movie, but it is a neat little recipe non-the-less. The Hornito’s Tequila, Tito’s Vodka and Averna Sambuca mingle together to make a slightly firery cocktail with a good tequila finish. Show Links: Print The Recipe Now (or later) Tito’s [...]
Are you looking to challenge yourself as a pousse-cafe creator? How many layers have you created in your shot glass? We’re going with five this week in the Flaming Monkey Asshole shooter, we’re not sure where the name came from and we’re not sure we want to know. Layer in order: grenadine, creme de menthe, [...]
The Via Veneto is our first official sambuca cocktail recipe on Common Man Cocktails. Although this cocktail only contains a minor amount of Sambuca, it’s enough to really give the brandy cocktail a personality. We chose Averna Sambuca Liquirizia because it has great flavors and deep black liquorice taste. If you love the flavor of [...]
Averna Stellato Sambuca is 100% star anise and has a slight black licorice taste, if you’re a fan of licorice you’re going to like Averna Sambuca. If you’re a fan of Averna Sambuca because of its licorice flavored properties you’re going to be a raging lunatic over Sambuca Liquirizia! Sambuca Liquirizia is a licorice flavored [...]
Sambuca fans around the world rejoice, Averna is awakening a new anise-flavored liqueur with a sweetly refreshing beverage which will rock your senses. What the heck is anise, aniseed and what is this star anise I talk about? Aniseed is a flowering plant containing liquorice-like components, specifically black liquorice. If you hate black liquorice you’ll [...]
Averna is famous for their Amaro liqueur but they’ve decided to expand into a few new avenues to add to their library of liquors such as that of Amaro. Amaro, meaning “bitter” in Italian, is an Italian herbal liqueur commonly drank after dinner. To me, it sounds like the Italian version of Jägermeister but doesn’t [...]
