Sidecar, Apple Car

Sidecar seems like a nice winter after dinner drink.
Brandy, citrus, sugared rim – what’s not to love? Besides i have two jars of home-made syrups in the fridge – lavender honey, and apple rose.
So a lavender one went into the Lavender Sidecar, the recipe in The Art of the Bar book.
While the apple rose syrup [...]

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Rosita, Mi Amante

During a strawberry season i made some Tequila por Mi Amante – it came out quite intriguing but honestly i had a hard time to find an appropriate drink to use it in. Paloma indeed sounded exciting but imho grapefruit completely overwhelmed a delicate strawberry flavor. But Rosita hit the mark: i upped the amount [...]

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Raspberry-BergamoTEAni

I was intrigued by Audrey’s Earl Grey MarTEAni for quite a while and finally got to trying it, with some modifications. Had a bit more than a cup of Junipero in which i dropped couple of bags of Zhena’s Gypsy Raspberry Earl Grey tea – my favorite. Infused for about an hour. I also had [...]

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More Infusions

Started tonight couple more but those were in the planning for quite sometime. Plums went into Junipero gin while Cortland apples and rosebuds are getting vodka treatment (100 proof Smirnoff).

Just to record the quantities for a possible future reference:
plum gin – 4 large plums in 500ml of spirit, 1/2 cup of superfine sugar; 1 [...]

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Couple of Recent Infusions

It was a chain reaction of sorts – I got interested in infusions by the way of developing new flavors of beer. Then the curiosity for cocktails came along. So now i do infusions both to understand the beer flavor as well as use them in different drinks.
The first one was tequila infused with strawberries [...]

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