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The Groundhog's Day Negroni is a quarantine-approved Negroni with aged Hampden spirit and a lot of gin.
Pineapple goes surprisingly well with peaty scotch. This is exemplified in the super-tropical Ardbeg Drum special release whisky. Peated scotch
Times are tough. And the distressing thing is that you can't even visit a bar to drown your sorrows. We're
In the Yaesu Shopping mall in the middle of a busy train station, there sits an impressive bottle shop. It's
We made a lot of ginger syrup, as described in our previous post on the spicy ginger daiquiri. A lot.
Ginger syrup is a great cocktail ingredient - it really plays beautifully with rye and adds a spicy and sweet
As always, I'm a huge fan of the daiquiri. Simple to make, simple to fuck up, daiquiris traditionally contain just
In these caronavirus times, with bars throughout San Francisco closed, I've found myself increasingly willing to make more complicated cocktails.
Last Thursday, before the COVID-19 crisis quarantined us all starting this week, we went to Overproof. The reservations had been
Truth be told, we started this review a while ago. We had this alongside the previously reviewed Bruichladdich 1990/25 travel