Sugar, Water, Spirit, Bitters That’s the formula for what many people consider the original cocktail – The Old Fashioned. That’s what we’re taking a look at to celebrate World Old Fashioned Week. Before the mid-1800’s, alcohol consumption was mostly split into two categories – locally made alcohol, from the local tavern or from one’s own […]
Category Archives: Cocktails
Halloween Cocktail: The Frankenstein’s Monster
Halloween… Alcohol goes with it almost as well as candy, & there’s plenty of easy ways to elevate your All Saint’s Eve sipping: The White Lady, a bright & tart, yet silky smooth mixture of Gin, Lemon, Dry Triple Sec, & Egg White, inspired by the ghostly figures of European folklore. There’s the Corpse Reviver […]
Cocktail: Mai Tai
The Mai Tai The first cocktail I wrote about on Spirit Forward was the Martini – a pre-prohibition classic that was good enough to stand tall for over a century but whose brilliance has been diluted by too many poor iterations. The Mai Tai has suffered a similar fate. Once, it was the flagship of […]
Cocktail: The Martini
The Martini What can be said that hasn’t already been said about the Martini? (A lot!!)The Martini is one of the most Iconic cocktails & one of the few to live through the cocktail dark ages of the late 1900’s. A simple but elegant mixture of Gin, Vermouth, maybe some bitters & definitely a garnish, […]
