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Union Club

Union Club

Although it didn't say so in the recipe, we garnished this cocktail with some threaded Swedish blueberries. We thought they looked pretty against this intensely sunset coloured drink. And it gets it colour thanks to the orange juice mixed with Campari, which happens to be one of the most delicious combinations thinkable. This cocktail is bittersweet like Campari based cocktails tend to be. It's simply a gorgeous drink. Union Club Recipe from Canon Bar in Seattle Ingredients: 2 oz bourbon 1,5
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Warehouse C

Warehouse C

When Jillian Vose made a surprise visit to bar 20hundra5 in Stockholm last year, at the very same evening we were guest judges in a cocktail competition there, we were quite excited! Having previously featured several of Jillian's cocktails in our feed we've been holding on to this one, the Warehouse C, for a while. Because it couldn't be more fitting to post this one than today, on Swedish Midsummer Eve, the strawberry fiesta day of the year. In the Warehouse C there might be only one single
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The Derby

The Derby

We continue to try out recipes from Ted Haigh's excellent book “Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails [https://mattias.adbibere.se/product/vintage-spirits-and-forgotten-cocktails-from-the-alamagoozlum-to-the-zombie-100-rediscovered-recipes-and-the-stories-behind-them/] “. Today we are making The Derby. According to the book, cocktails and horse racing have always gone hand in hand. And this is one of the cocktails that's been around for a long time, although there are different variations of
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The Amen Corner

The Amen Corner

The Amen Corner, by Nick Brown is a riff of The Paper Plane. And it's delicious! Those muddled mint leaves add a lot of character despite not being visible in the finalized drink. And, as lovers of Maraschino cherries this is definitely a drink for us. Not one, not two but THREE cherries is the suggested garnish. Well we couldn't be happier, these cherries are truly some black pearls! We recently bought a set of vintage cocktail picks, mimicking different fruit and vegetables. None of them dep
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Tailwind

Tailwind

Be honest now, how often do you use Madeira in cocktails? This is one of the first few times for us, and we did it because we saw Brendan over at Drinking Hobby [http://drinkinghobby.com/tailwind/] posting this intriguing cocktail. It's his original recipe, and he calls it the Tailwind: Yes that is a long list of ingredients, and yes it is so worth it! This cocktail is a flavor explosion, with boozy, fruity, sweet and bitter notes, all at once. We would have never even thought of combining Küm
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The Stark

The Stark

This is The Stark, as commented upon by Carolyn Gil in Sasha Petraske's “Regarding Cocktails”. It's one of the most beautiful and philosophical cocktail books out there according to us. Most cocktails in the book are relatively simple when it comes to number and type of ingredients, equipment required and preparation time needed. However this doesn't mean the cocktails are less interesting, it's rather the other way around. The Stark is a good example of this. A bourbon driven recipe, sweetened
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Black Manhattan

Black Manhattan

The Black Manhattan, from Bourbon and Branch [http://www.bourbonandbranch.com/] in San Francisco, is an amaro-driven riff of the classic Manhattan cocktail. Swapping the regular sweet vermouth for herbal amaro Averna creates this deep, dark brown, boozy and spicy cocktail that will appeal both to lovers of whiskey as well as amari fans. The recipe for this gem of a cocktail we found in Brad Thomas Parsons's book Amaro [http://amzn.to/2wHrzqO]. It's filled with several other tempting amari re
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Manhattan

Manhattan

Manhattan - one of the most iconic cocktails ever - finally featured in our feed for the very first time. A cocktail doesn't get more simple and yet refined at the same time. If you don't count the bitters, this is a two ingredients only cocktail, made with whiskey and sweet vermouth. The dashes of bitters are essential though and the cocktail would not be the same without them. We like to stir this classic for a rather long time, say at least a minute. Two things will then happen; the cocktai
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