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Russian Standard Platinum

by Jason Lightner May 15th, 2013 | Liquor

We took a look at Russian Standard Vodka a few weeks ago and this week we had the opportunity to try the premium edition of said spirit. Needless to say, we dove right in.

Russian Standard Platinum takes the age-old recipe of a clean and artfully crafted spirit and employs a special silver filtration technique that, combined with a a greater quality of ingredients, creates a vodka that is exceptionally smooth and crisp.

"Uniting a passion for perfection with a daring energy and confidence, Platinum has become the favorite vodka among Russia's booming generation of successful urban

Ment-Julep (Mexican Version)

by Dennis Mayer May 14th, 2013 | Cocktails, Mixed Drinks

Here's another drink from Bar La Florida cocktail handbook, which I acquired recently and have since used for my last two columns. I wish I'd looked at it a few days or a few weeks earlier, because it would have helped me answer a few reader questions we've received in the Ask the Bartender section of our website -- recently, separate readers asked me a) can a mint julep be made without bourbon, and b)

Orange Blossom

by Dennis Mayer May 10th, 2013 | Cocktails

I've seen this week's cocktail featured in a couple of places, but I've just rediscovered it in my copy of the Bar Florida cocktail handbook, from Hemingway's favorite bar in Havana. Like the Papa Doble that originally brought that handbook to our attention, this drink is a great seasonal cocktail to highlight.

It's also a drink that shows the benefits of using good ingredients. Make an orange blossom using fresh-squeezed orange juice, and good grenadine and you'll be shocked at how much better a drink like this tastes than

Mint Drinks

by Dennis Mayer May 9th, 2013 | Ask the Bartender

I just discovered that the mint in my herb garden is growing rapidly. I know that I could use the mint to make a mojito. Do you have any other cocktail suggestions for mint? We have lots to use!

... and you'll continue to have lots to use. Mint grows like a weed. If it didn't smell and taste good, we'd consider it a weed. It's tireless. Please pull it out of your garden now unless you're OK with pulling up unwanted patches and cutting it back several times a year.

That's, of course, good news if you do like mint,

What, Exactly, is a Twist?

by Dennis Mayer May 2nd, 2013 | Bar Essentials

So many parts of cocktail orders have become almost fetishized, if only because they're fun to say. "On the rocks." "Bone dry." "Extra dirty." The language that's developed to describe drinks is fun and self-consciously flirty. But a strange thing happens when that language is developed and used over the course of years and decades. We forget what a lot of those words mean. They're fun to say, but we have no idea what we're saying.

So what's a twist? The term is usually used to mean any piece of citrus, and often when people order one they're specifically asking

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