Category: Ingredients
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Homemade Orange Bitters
Lately I’ve been drinking a lot of carbonated water at work and at home.  My favorite way to drink it is with quite a few dashes of bitters.  While I like the flavor of aromatic bitters (and I’ve been using a previous batch frequently), I prefer fruit bitters.  Having barreled through a couple bottles of Fee…
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DIY Falernum
Having come up seriously lacking in my search for commercial falernum I turned to my circle of cocktail enthusiasts and found a number of great recipes. In looking at a few I decided on Rick’s recipe. But why, you ask, did I choose the Kaiser’s recipe over the others. Well, first it’s dirt simple. I…
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Tequila por Mi Amante – Worth the Wait
Today I ended the steeping of my bottle of Tequila por Mi Amante. What began a slightly sharp agave elixir is now, well, it’s now something completely different. It’s now a crystal clear ruby hued nectar. The aroma is what gets you first. It’s got the tequila scents that you would expect, but layered on…
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Tequila por Mi Amante
While traversing the interwebs looking for recipes for this week’s cocktail, the Paloma, I came across this bit of deliciousness. Paul has taken strawberry infused tequila (Tequila por Mi Amante) and made what sounds like the best Paloma ever conceived by human kind. The recipe for this wonderful infusion comes from Charles Baker’s Gentleman’s Companion…
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Coronal Bitters: Hellfire Evolved
As I mentioned in my MxMo post on the Fire Island Daiquiri I’ve been steeping a new batch of Hellfire Bitters for the past couple weeks. The recipe I used is the same that I used for my first batch, but I changed it up a bit. When I made these bitters the first time…