Good day to you and yours, fair reader! This week we'll be looking at an old favorite – Bombay Dry Gin. A distilled London dry gin, Bombay has earned itself a permanent place in many liquor cabinets and nearly all restaurants and bars. Manufactured by Bombay Spirits Co., Ltd. and distributed by Bacardi, Bombay has been a de facto standard for well over twenty years.
Bombay Dry Gin is based on a 1761 gin recipe and, as opposed to some other gins, is infused with its botanicals by passing the boiled water vapor through a copper basket filled with
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Hendrick’s Gin: ‘Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky
by Jason Lightner on October 19th, 2011 | Liquor
It's almost Thanksgiving, and I'm feeling a bit nostalgic. You see, nearly two years ago I was introduced to what could quite possibly be my favorite gin. Interestingly and appropriately enough, it's not your ordinary gin. Oh, no, this one is special. The elixir in question, is a little gem called Hendrick's.
A Scottish gin, Hendrick's is produced by William Grant & Sons (who also happen to produce The Balvenie) and has had the honor of being named "Best Gin in the World" by The Wall Street Journal in 2003, and has won various other awards and accolades. One
A Scottish gin, Hendrick's is produced by William Grant & Sons (who also happen to produce The Balvenie) and has had the honor of being named "Best Gin in the World" by The Wall Street Journal in 2003, and has won various other awards and accolades. One
Schlichte Steinhäeger Dry Gin Serves Up Serenity
by Jason Lightner on August 31st, 2011 | Liquor
It's been a long time since I've written about gin; about five months, actually. It was the other night when I went to pick up wine at the liquor store (where, by the way, the guy in front of me was picking up a bottle of Burnett's Orange Vodka *shudder*) that I realized I had a gem of a spirit sitting in my liquor cabinet that I hadn't yet reviewed. Such a travesty I thought of this, that I had to make certain that I wouldn't put this one off any longer. So, ladies and gentlemen, I
Satan’s Whiskers
by Dennis Mayer on June 28th, 2011 | Cocktails, Martinis
Vermouth has lost a lot of its charm in the last 50 years or so of popular drinking. Today, it's used almost exclusively in the making of martinis and manhattans - with a short pour for the manhattan, and just a couple of dashes for the martini. In fact, so-called "sophisticated" drinkers will order their martinis "dry" (for just one dash), "extra dry" (for even less), or "bone-dry" (for no vermouth at all.)
This all confuses me, since a martini is supposed to be a cocktail, of which vermouth is a crucial (if not secondary) ingredient. I would think a sophisticated
This all confuses me, since a martini is supposed to be a cocktail, of which vermouth is a crucial (if not secondary) ingredient. I would think a sophisticated
Tom Collins – The Old-Fashioned Way
by Dennis Mayer on May 18th, 2011 | Cocktails, Mixed Drinks, Sparkling
One of the only moments that's stuck with me from The Great Gatsby was a morning-after scene, in which the characters watch the house staff cart away giant mounds of squeezed-up fruit that had been used the night before. Fitzgerald wanted the fruit to symbolize how much the rich wasted, but I was always confused. What the hell were they doing with all that fruit?
Now it makes perfect sense to me. Bartenders back then didn't have all the mixers we work with now. They didn't have cola, for the most part, and they certainly didn't have sour mix
Now it makes perfect sense to me. Bartenders back then didn't have all the mixers we work with now. They didn't have cola, for the most part, and they certainly didn't have sour mix
