Category: Review
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Danger Chef’s Rimming Salts
Given my love for crafting cocktails I’m sure it will come as no surprise that I also love to cook. From time to time I take cooking classes at the Cooking School of the Rockies, a local school here in Boulder. At my last class, a course on the history and use of different kinds…
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Review – Voyager Gin
When I was at Tales of the Cocktail in July I met Steven Williams one of the reps from Pacific Distillery located in Woodinville, WA. We struck up a conversation and I was intrigued to hear that they had recently released a new gin. When Steven heard that I was from Colorado we reached an…
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Review – Roundhouse Corretto
You listened patiently while I waxed poetic about Roundhouse Gin, which I still claim is one of the most interesting and tasty gins I’ve ever tried. Well shortly after posting that review I got an email from Roundhouse‘s founder and distiller Alex Nelson letting me know that they’d recently released Corretto a new coffee liqueur. …
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Review – Beefeater Gin
This won’t come as a surprise to most of you, but, I drink a lot of gin. It is hands down my favorite spirit for cocktails and my collection shows that. At present my home collection contains around 20 bottles. That aside, up until last week I didn’t have a bottle of Beefeater in my…
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Cruzan Single Barrel
Earlier this week a bottle of Cruzan Single Barrel arrived on my doorstep to sample. Looking back it was clearly brought by some kind of booze angel. Never having tasted a single barrel rum before I popped the cork that night and poured a bit noticing first the mellow amber color. This color is imparted…