A Mountain Of Crushed Ice

Today its the mint day! if you wonder what the mint day is - you can read about it here.
As it happens the BoozeFairy did time it well and came with Firefly Sweet Tea Bourbon just when i got the first of this years fragrant Moroccan mint from the market.
So then tht is perfect for [...]

Sip and dream..
The mint julep isn`t original to New Orleans though, but imported from the southern states where it was developed. Nevertheless it has become a very important New Orleanian Cocktail.
Without doubt, a good Mint Julep is a true Southern pleasure. On the first saturday in may is the Kentucky Derby Day and julpes are [...]

Its happening fast now, the fall is really storming in with sudden temp drops, strong winds, lots of cold rain mixed with sun, and a sudden color change on the leaves…which did inspire me to make these two fall cocktails.
I`m lucky to have a very beautiful walkway to my work along the shores with trees [...]

Yes really..the real mint is back, finally.
I have waited since the last vegetable markets closed down in the early fall. Since then i have had to live with those tiny under-light grown thin plants called mint - But its to me not real mint. Oh no..because real mint has much more fragrance. Not a little [...]

IT GOT TO BE FRESH - WITH INTENSE RICH FLAVORS!
Fresh, organic and locally sourced..
I´m very fond of using fresh ingredients in cocktails and cannot enough praise their superiority. Not only do they impart natural intense rich flavors to the drinks which cannot be compared to commercial mixers, they also add all those little things we [...]

There`s something very reachable about this bourbon, it`s  nice and “homely”, and also very reasonable priced and no doubt  of good quality. Its one of those spirits that should always be on the shelf.
Bulleit Bourbon is inspired by a recipe in the 1800`s created by Augustus Bulleit. The Bulleit Distilling Co was founded by Tom [...]

I like grenadine a lot, and with a handful of dried hibiscus flowers the already tasty grenadine turns to awesome. When you make homemade grenadine it usually gets paler in color than the commercial variants, but with the dried hibiscus flowers added this isn`t the case anymore, the hibiscus flowers inparts a blood red [...]

Today must be my lucky day..i was greatly surprised with a mystery package in the post.. Out of the package unfolds some beautifully handcrafted stuff from Blair aka as Trader Tiki. Mahalo a ton!
It was his own homemade Dry Fly bitters, Falernum bitters, Dark Falernum and Extra Thick Orgeat! Everything is so beautifully made from [...]