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Infusing Spirits. The Double Green Cocktail.

Infusing Spirits. The Double Green Cocktail.

Infusing spirits will take your cocktail making adventures to a whole new level. Although you can certainly bring flavor into a drink in other ways, like in a simple syrup, there’s a certain amount of subtlety that’s achieved when you infuse it instead. Additionally, making your own infusion allows you to avoid buying some of the positively awful flavored spirits that are available on the shelves right now. There are a few rules of thumb to the infusion process. First, use a high quality spirit to

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Love’s Sweet Forgiveness.

Happy Valentine’s Day! Love’s Sweet Forgiveness.

Let me start by saying that I’m really not crazy about this drink’s name even though I’m the one who made it up. Three weeks ago, however, I posted a cocktail called Love’s Bitter Revenge whose flavor was (you guessed it) on the bitter side. It wasn’t really that I was being cynical about love, but rather that I wanted to pair Lillet Rouge, Cynar, and DRAM black bitters together with Bluecoat gin. I wanted today’s drink to be just the opposite of that and so I needed the name to reflect it. The

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