Category: General
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The Coffee Cocktail
Ok, here’s a quick riddle for you. What has no coffee in it and isn’t technically a cocktail? Give up? It’s this week’s drink, the Coffee Cocktail. So named not because of its ingredients but rather for its appearance when mixed properly. Why not a true cocktail? Well when the word cocktail originated it meant…
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Review – Dancing Pines Distillery
One thing that never ceases to impress me about distillers is their passion for what they do. A few weeks back I took a trip north to Dancing Pines Distillery in Loveland, CO. Walking through the front door I met with another display of that passion. The still is right up front, Kimberly Naslund (one…
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Hot Toddy on Raising the Bar
Serendipitous timing, I should think. There is a video on Raising the Bar with Jamie Boudreau over at Small Screen Network right now featuring a Blue Blazer Style Hot Toddy. Pretty cool technique. I’ve not mustered the courage to give it a go yet. Fiery hands sound bad. Any of you brave enough?
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Foodista Featured Drink Blog of the Day
Cocktail Hacker is Foodista’s Featured Drink Blog of the Day today! :) Cruise on over to the site and check out some of the other great food & drink blogs and features. Very cool site.
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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…