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The Long Hello
Damon Boelte, the bar director at Brooklyn’s Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens, has an affinity for naming his original drinks after songs, albums and musicians. His autumnal Champagne cocktail, The Long...
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Daily News: Michelob Ultra Gets Prime Super Bowl Ad, NFL Vets Head for Wine...
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – An Australian company has developed a water bottle that uses solar energy to produce water from air, at a rate of as much as...
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Daily News: Anthony Bourdain Doesn’t Care about Craft Beer, Debunking the...
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – Anthony Bourdain is unapologetic about his distaste for craft beer and wine snobs. – Condé Nast Traveler explores the “underdog...
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Slow Down Shirley
Jim Kearns taps into quintessential East Coast fall flavors in his Slow Down Shirley: cranberry liqueur layered onto a base of apple brandy, with lemon and ginger adding brightness. The post Slow Down...
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The Return of America’s Most Patriotic Spirit
Somewhere in the past century, American apple brandy came to be seen as the gap-toothed, barefoot country cousin of a more refined French apple brandy, called Calvados, which projected a more lace...
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The Long Hello
Damon Boelte, the bar director at Brooklyn’s Prime Meats in Carroll Gardens, has an affinity for naming his original drinks after songs, albums and musicians. His autumnal Champagne cocktail, The Long...
View ArticleHarvest Sour
Bartender Sam Ross has a knack for creating “perfect” drinks, meaning that they showcase ingredients split into exactly equal proportions (see the Paper Plane for an ultimate example). He’s done it...
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Daily News: Michelob Ultra Gets Prime Super Bowl Ad, NFL Vets Head for Wine...
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – An Australian company has developed a water bottle that uses solar energy to produce water from air, at a rate of as much as...
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Daily News: Anthony Bourdain Doesn’t Care about Craft Beer, Debunking the...
Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere: – Anthony Bourdain is unapologetic about his distaste for craft beer and wine snobs. – Condé Nast Traveler explores the “underdog...
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Slow Down Shirley
Jim Kearns taps into quintessential East Coast fall flavors in his Slow Down Shirley: cranberry liqueur layered onto a base of apple brandy, with lemon and ginger adding brightness. The post Slow Down...
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The Return of America’s Most Patriotic Spirit
Somewhere in the past century, American apple brandy came to be seen as the gap-toothed, barefoot country cousin of a more refined French apple brandy, called Calvados, which projected a more lace...
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Newark
“John Deragon and I created this cocktail for the PDT menu in the fall of 2007,” explains Jim Meehan in his book, Meehan’s Bartender Manual. Brooklyn cocktail variations were all the rage at the time,...
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How to Use Apple Brandy in Cocktails
As a number of bartenders can attest, America’s apple brandy, better known as applejack, is good for a wide range of cocktails beyond the Jack Rose. Jack Be Nimble Newark John Deragon and Jim Meehan's...
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Second Line Season
At their forthcoming revival of New Orleans’ historic Jewel of the South, industry veterans Nick Detrich and Chris Hannah will serve elegant, understated cocktails like this brandy-based Second Line...
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Harvest Smash
“This was actually the first drink I ever came up,” Tyndale says of this Whiskey Smash variation. Here, he opts for an applejack base (“a brown liquor that would be appealing to everyone”) in the...
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Queen Bee
The Queen Bee, an apple brandy sour augmented with honey and Curaçao, appears in Charles H. Baker’s two-volume travelogue from 1951, The South American Gentleman’s Companion. Abigail Gullo of Seattle’s...
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Applesmoke
At the core of Britt Fox’s Applesmoke cocktail, a Baltimore-made pechuga-style apple brandy informs the entire composition of the drink. Though it only contributes a half-ounce to the recipe, the...
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Terra Firma
While developing the drinks menu for Pacific Standard at Portland’s KEX hotel, “we didn’t really have a classic spirit-forward drink on our very fanciful lobby bar menu,” says Jeffrey Morgenthaler, the...
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