Breakfast Negroni Cocktail – A Fistfull of Cocoa Puffs
the highlight of the last Negroni Week was Wildhawk's Breakfast Negroni cocktail. The star ingredient is the Cocoa Puff infused Sweet Vermouth.
Author: Michael L
Review #126: Balcones Healthy Spirits Bottle
It’s exciting to try local products when you travel. It’s one of life’s joys! But I was a bit skeptical when I first encountered Balcones during a business trip. Most of the world finds a way to advertise its local …
Review #125: Heaven Hill Bottled in Bond
Heaven Hill used to release a 6 year old Bottled in Bond bourbon only in Kentucky. In 2019 the company started releasing a new Bottled in Bond whisky, now aged for 7 years.
Review #124: Bunnahabhain 18: A Full Bodied Islay Sherry Monster
I make little secret of my love for sherried whiskies. There are few things I appreciate more than a monster that marries sherry and malt. Bunnahbhain 18 offers sherry in spades; the costal distillery combines rich, full bodied sherry with …
Review #123: Nikka Coffey Malt
The Nikka Coffey Malt comes from Suntory’s Miyagikyo distillery outside Sendai Japan. Coffey Malt is one of the few 100% malt whiskies distilled on a column (Coffey) still, as opposed to a pot still. Coffey Stills were the first …
The Cooking Banana Cocktail
Plantains are never the stars of the show. The starchy cooking bananas are a lot like the malt that makes malt whisky. It takes a process to turn sweet.
Review #122: Nikka Coffey Gin
Nikka Coffey Gin comes from the same massive Coffey stills that are used to make some of the company’s grain and malt whiskies. The gin is distilled rom a neutral corn base. Like Nikka’s Coffey Malt whisky, their gin is …
Review #121: Glengoyne 21
We liked the Glengoyne 10 so much we grabbed a bottle of its older brother. The 21 is aged in ex-sherry, and you get plenty of it on the nose and palate.
Review #120: Plantation Panama Old Reserve
Plantation rum from Panama, aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon, and finished in ex-Cognac.
Last Rites Cocktail
The Last Rites is only lightly sweet, and has that indescribable funk from passionfruit.