Veritas

Veritas

It's when the purple crème de cassis blends with the other three pale ingredients that this drink comes to live. Enhanced by some purple synthetic feathers and lime zest a really colourful cocktail is born. Crème de cassis is supposed to float on top of the drink in this recipe, but it just doesn't work. The density of the blackcurrant liqueur is way too high (thanks to the sugar) to work as a float. But even when the liqueur dives to the bottom of the glass it still looks pretty pretty. Secon
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Solbeso & Orange

Solbeso & Orange

Chocolaty Solbeso and sweet orange juice is combined with vermouth in this wonderful recipe. Equal parts of these three ingredients pair extremely well and results in a summery yet still rather stiff cocktail. When the sun hit the glass during our photo shoot, the cocktail almost looked like the sun itself. Hence we had to take at least one photo from above to show off the drink's sunny qualities. Oh yes to sipping on this one during summer nights at the balcony! Solbeso & Orange Recipe In
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Kretchma

Kretchma

So apparently one of our favourite bars in NYC, Cienfuegos [http://www.cienfuegosny.com/], closed recently. We're actually a bit saddened about that. It was Brian over at Eat This NY [http://eatthisny.com/] who introduced us to Cienfuegos during one of his guided cocktail tours through lower Manhattan a few years ago. Luckily we still have a souvenir skull cocktail pick from the bar. We got it in one of their very strong zombie cocktail and kept it as a fond memory. Today that particular pic
chocolate liqueur Cocktail
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Erumption

Erumption

We’re coming back to our bottle of Flor de Caña [http://flordecana.com/] rum, made in Nicaragua close to an active volcano. So a pretty awesome rum, that also happens to be Fair Trade certified and sustainably sourced. With that amazing volcano so close to the production we were tempted to go tiki and serve a drink in our volcano mug. But, after sipping the rum neat we re-thinked and decided to take this recipe in a slightly more elegant and less diluted direction. Using no fruit juices at all
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Ants in the Pants

Ants in the Pants

With a name like that, there's no chance we would not shake the cocktail. Ants in the pants might not be what you get from drinking this cocktail, but it sure is fun thinking about how it got its name.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Here we are trying out a new sweet vermouth to us, the Carpano Classico, which is the sibling of the Antica Formula we used in one of our posts from last week. We also tried it neat and it's a rich and tasty vermouth that you could happily drink on its own. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ The glasses are thrift shop f
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Welcome Stranger

Welcome Stranger

Swedish punsch is always heartwarming to see in recipes. It is ok to get slightly patriotic also when it comes to cocktails is it?! Mixing punsch with both brandy and gin must be fairly unusual, but this recipe proves it works. Somehow all those characteristic spirits unite and form a pleasant drinking experience. And using these tall coupes gave us a good opportunity to use our long banana vintage cocktail picks! Welcome Stranger Recipe Ingredients: 0,5 oz Swedish punsch 0,5 oz brandy 0,5 o
brandy Cocktail
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Solbeso & Grapes

Solbeso & Grapes

We haven't used our bottle of Solbeso in a while so it was just time to do so. It's a really good product, tasting a lot of chocolate so the drinks mixed on it taste just like that - chocolaty! Using grapes in drinks is not something we do very often, so that's one of reasons we chose this particular recipe. The sweet grapes, bursting with flavour and freshness is somehow an ideal drink ingredient and we need to use it more times in our cocktailing. The sun was very much present when we phot
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Coup d'etat

Coup d'etat

We had a feeling this one could end up a little on the sweet side according to our personal taste - and it kind of did… However it's basically only the amount of grenadine used that determines the level of sweetness, so it can be easily adjusted. Next time we will only use 0,5 oz of grenadine.⁣ ⁣ And we will most likely make this drink again, because it's an interesting one. Scotch on its own is delicious, and the Haig Club we are using is particularly good to mix with. Punt e Mes is a bitter-
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