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World Cocktail Day was created to celebrate the first recorded definition of the word cocktail. That distinction belongs to a New York tabloid named The Balance and Columbian Repository. While the word “cock-tail” has been found in print much earlier, the actual definition “a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water and […]
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A tale of two cocktails For this post I actually tried two Old Fashioned recipes. One using a modern recipe and one using a recipe from the 1800’s. The modern cocktail calls for 1/2 of an orange slice to be muddled with a lump of sugar and Angostura Bitters. It also calls for an additional […]
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The Whiskey Sour reminds me of my Grandfather on my Mother’s side of the family. When I was very young and my family went to my Grandparents home for holidays, my Grandfather was always the bartender. He’d ask “Who wants a highball”? No matter what type of drink he was making, they were all “highballs”. […]
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This past weekend, my Wife and I participated in The Florida Cane Distillery “Distilling Experience”. It started in 2015 to showcase their new moonshine and gin products that complement their original vodka distillations.
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