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Build Your Own Bitters class

Mark Bitterman hosted a “Build Your Own Bitters” class at The Meadow... 

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TOAST 2012

On Saturday and Sunday, April 28-29, 2012, on the sky bridge level of the World... 

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Recipes

Recipe: Around Cape Horn

Here’s an original Boozenik cocktail recipe mixing together spirits from a couple... 

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Recipe: Boulevardier

This cocktail, which seems similar in some ways to a Negroni is attributed to Harry... 

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Bottle Reviews

Review: Piscología Pisco Acholado

  Piscología Pisco Achlado is a typical acholado pisco, blending quebranta, torontel, and italia grapes. We sampled a bottle from batch number 3, and it was one of only 820 made in that batch, so we’re fairly lucky to have even seen this in the U.S. Nose: light alcohol, green apple, white grape juice, flowering lime, sweet, tinge of sour, touch... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Glacier Potato Vodka

  Glacier Potato Vodka is a hand-crafted, column-distilled potato vodka from Rigby, Idaho. Unlike some other high-altitude Western spirits, and odd, given the name, this vodka is made with well water, not snow (or glacier) melt, so there is definite character of the geology imparted on the finished product. Nose: noticeable alcohol, but not hot,... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Powers Gold Label

A hugely popular whiskey in Ireland, Powers Gold Label is not very well known in the U.S., and that’s a shame. Powers Gold Label is a quality inexpensive blended whiskey produced by Midleton Distillery. A mix of pure pot still whiskey and grain whiskey, it stands with other better known brands as a very affordable and mixable Irish whiskey. Nose:... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Kilbeggan

The Kilbeggan distillery is one of the oldest distilleries in Ireland, and fairly recently (2007) celebrated it’s 250th birthday with a return to whiskey production, after a 50 year hiatus. The whiskey I sampled likely was distilled at Cooley Distillery given that I’m not sure the whiskey actually distilled at Kilbeggan has yet hit the market. Nose:... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Burnside Bourbon 4 Year

Burnside Bourbon is a new straight bourbon marketed by Eastside Distilling (formerly Deco Distilling). It’s aged 4 years, rather than the minimum of 2 for a straight bourbon, and other than a tight-lipped “It’s more than 51% corn” I don’t have much more information about the making or aging of this whiskey. I can only tell you what I find... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Gran Classico

Gran Classico is a Swiss bitter based on an original 1864 amaro from Turin, Italy using wormword, gentian, bitter orange peel, rhubarb, other aromatic plants to create a potion for aperitivo, digestivo, or mixing. Nose: Complex herbal nose, trace of honey, dried bitter orange peel, star anise, wet wool, gentian, thyme. Taste: Thick, heavy, sweet and... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Redbreast 15

Midleton Distillery is best known for large production whiskies under the Jameson brand. Unlike those column distilled whiskies, their Redbreast 15 is officially called a “single pot still” whiskey, but since it is distilled from a mix of malted and unmalted grains, it cannot be called a “single malt”. Typical Redbreast is distilled 3 times... [Read more of this review]

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Review: Vinn Baijiu

Baijiu translates roughly to “white liquor”, and while Vinn Baijiu is labelled “vodka” it has characteristics that make it feel like it’s somewhere between vodka and white whiskey. Given that it’s made of brown rice, it also likely will confuse some who will think it a shochu or soju. Outside China, all baijiu have these categorization issues... [Read more of this review]

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