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Another Thursday Drink Night — Last night’s theme was nuts: liqueurs made from nuts, nut infused booze, and more nuts. Go check them all out, make some for yourself and and vote for your favourite! I’m not a big nut liqueur fan, usually finding them too sweet and cloying, so this was a bit more of a [...] Another Thursday Night, another Thursday Night Drink Night. Tonight’s theme was fruit brandies — poire williams, kirshwasser, framboise, apricot brandy, grappa … I started by pulling out all the fruit brandies and liqueurs I had in the liquor cabinet, and decided to go with the tree fruit based brandies rather than the berry based ones, so apple, pear, [...] Another week, another Thursday Drink Night! Tonight’s theme was Scotch, which I was a bit unsure about, not making use of a lot of scotch in cocktails here at home: however, after a taste of Talisker/Benedictine/Green Chartreuse thanks to Kaiser Penguin, in which I was smitten with scotch, I was a little more optimistic about my options [...] Last Thursday Drink Night was retro-TDN (no rules in the octagon!) and I was trying to come up with a drink that used some of a bottle of earl-grey tea infused Plymouth Gin and draw down some of the bottle of Cinzano Orancio I have in the liquor cabinet. After reflection, I ended up making a few [...] Tonight’s theme was gin: anything but London Dry Gin, which leaves things like Genever, the new style gins, and infused gins. I opted to use Saffron Gin, which is a beautiful, vibrant orange in the bottle, made by the French micro-distiller Gabriel Boudier. This particular gin has saffron, but also has notes of lemon and orange [...] |
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