A Mountain Of Crushed Ice

 
Geranium Gin is a new and exciting Danish gin to try out. Launched in Europe this fall and also exhibited at Bar Convent Berlin it soon makes its way over the pond. Geranium gin is  made by Henrik Hammer and his father who is a chemist and was developed by a true passion for gin and using [...]

Citadelle is quite different from other gins - smoothe, slightly sweet and complex with juniper and citrus notes. It also has a bit of a floral quality and a more mellow gin flavour with a clean finish.Its made from an original recipe dating back to 1771 created in Gt district of Dunkirk.
19 botanicals are used [...]

When i first tasted Martin Miller´s gin i found it had a special flavor and i really like it, it has a smooth and a bit earthy-bitter juniper flavour paired with an overall pleasant spicinress and slightly bright citrus and herbal flavours in between.
There´s one thing i specifically like with good gins and its that [...]

Beefeater 24 is being distilled to a new recipe using specially selected botanicals including a blend of Japanese Sencha and Chinese green teas.Beefeater’s original creator James Burrough constantly tried different combinations of ingredients and used seville oranges already in the 1860s.
Sharing Burrough’s passion for experimentation and flavour, Desmond Payne started experimenting too, trying a whole [...]

March 26..time for a sponsred TDN again! this time we were ponsored by Beefeater gin, which i think is nice as i have a special relationship with this gin as its the gin i grew up with. This gin also transports me to London in my memories from times when i have visited that city [...]

Vincent Van Gogh is one of my favorite painting artists, so when i received  samples of the Van Gogh label with its artistic bottles my curiosity got sparked. Little did i know that Van Gogh features so many different flavors and some, like the double espresso are quite unusual in that its a colored caffeinated, [...]

And so its time for my last blog post this year since i started blogging in june. It has been a fantastic year, i have made many new good friends and tons of cocktails! I want to thank you all who has inspired me and thought me so many things.
With this champagne cocktail i say [...]

This last thursday we had the joy of attending the first ever sponsored TDN, sponsored by Leblon cachaca.
Cocktailnerd and Rumdood participated in this TDN live from Trader Vics in Las Vegas mixing up the cocktails sent in by the online bar crowd with the bartenders at Vic’s, courtesy of Leblon cachaca. The chat room was [...]