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Mott and Mulberry

Mott and Mulberry

Apple juice in a cocktail? Yes, it's far less usual than for example orange juice or grapefruit juice. But Leo Robitschek's Mott and Mulberry cocktail is a perfect example of how delicious and well-working apple juice can be in a cocktail. In the recipe it's suggested to make your own juice out of Honeycrisp apples. We have to admit we opted for store bought apple juice, but even so the cocktail turned out very pleasant. The apple juice mixed with the potent rye and the herbal amaro Abano creat
Cocktail rye
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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
angostura bitters bourbon
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Brown Sugar

Brown Sugar

This is another gem by Leo Robitschek, and it's simply called Brown Sugar. And brown is certainly what you end up with, as every single ingredient has a golden brown colour. There is the wonderful Lustau East India sherry, and delicious Italian amaro Cynar. Then there's both rye and rum and mole bitters to bind it all together. We like how balanced this cocktail is. It's many different flavours compliment each other and create a boozy and stiff cocktail, that's still so easy and enjoyable to si
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Forty Thieves

Forty Thieves

Ok, prepare yourself for an absolutely unique and delicious drink! The Forty Thieves cocktail by Gino Pellarin kind of blew us away already on the first sip. There is so much going on at the same time, but somehow all those ingredients play very well together and marry into something quite spectacular. The recipe we found in The Nomad Cocktail Book. Yes, we finally bought their cookbook just to get hold of the attached cocktail book. Actually just this single cocktail made it worth it, it's tha
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Grapefruit Old Fashioned

Grapefruit Old Fashioned

We're almost half way through Old Fashioned Week and we are excited to contribute with this Grapefruit Old Fashioned. It's a riff on the classic, with added flavours from grapefruit and tonic. The grapefruit and the tonic add a rather bitter profile to this one. It's really delicious if you, like us, love bitter cocktails. Whenever we do Old Fashioned cocktails we try to use as heavy and sturdy glassware as possible. There's just something with the feeling of drinking a rather delicate cocktai
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