Month: October 2010
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Mamie Taylor
Whiskey! Whiskey! Whiskey! Guess what I’m craving? It starts with whis and ends with key. Okay, so my riddle skills need work but I really have been craving a new whiskey cocktail to try. And as happenstance should have it, in leafing through Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails I found a tasty sounding recipe I…
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Milk Punch – Fallesque
I’ve been drinking a lot of Milk Punch these last couple weeks, as has nearly anyone that came over. Fall is in the air here and the flavors in this drink fit very nicely into my current state of mind. There is the warmth and sweetness from the rum and brandy. There is the warm…
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Vanilla Extract
Vanilla extract is one of those ingredients that we all have sitting in our cupboards and, I would venture to guess, most of us don’t know the first thing about it. I certainly didn’t. That is, until I started learning digging in to the facts about vanilla a year or so back. But let me…
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Review – The Lash Spiced Rum
I’ve got a new spiced rum on my sampling docket today, The Lash. At present, the distribution in the US isn’t all that broad, but I’m certain it will grow as this rum is really quite good. Deeper in color than most spiced rums I’ve seen, this one starts life as a Trinidad rum aged…
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Review – Cruzan 9 Spiced Rum
If you look at my collection of liquor you’re going to notice that the number of rums I have on hand is second only to my selection of gins. This is no odd coincidence; I’m a huge rum fan. One class of rum that I’ve always been a bit intrigued by, though, is spiced rum. …