A pairing of sake and pickled ginger in this drink! A great sake cocktail! One of our go to date night meals is heading out for sushi and drinks at one of our favorite local sushi places, Blue Sushi. Any good sushi meal should always include drinks, and one drink that goes hand in …
Cocktails
Cold Brew Coffee and Bourbon together? Yes, please! This cold brew cocktail is very refreshing! With summer coming, we need a way to get our caffeine fix with out having a hot cup of coffee. So, we have been drinking a lot of cold brew coffee. We make cold brew coffee almost every morning, …
A Spicy tequila and pineapple cocktail! One of our best tequila drinks packs a punch! When the calendar rolls around to the end of April, it never fails that our social media feed fills up with lots of pictures and recipes of margarita. These are to celebrate Cinco de Mayo. While we love a …
These Amaro cocktails hit the spot! Back in 2009, one of the strangest cocktails to ever cross the bar rail made bartenders and cocktail nerd alike raise their eyebrows. it was a cocktail made primarily from Angostura Bitters and it hit the cocktail competition circuit. Normally cocktails use just a dash or two of …
A favorite liquor forward scotch whiskey cocktails that is a classic! Scotch is one of Jay’s favorite spirits, but it isn’t one of those that is found in a lot of cocktails. There is a big school of thought that using any scotch in a cocktail is sacrilege, as many drinkers think that a …
Alcoholic ice cream based on a classic Old Fashioned Cocktail! Homemade ice cream is one of our favorite things to make in the summer. Both of us have memories from our childhood of the ice cream machine droning away and the sound of the ice cubes and rock salt crunching along the freezer drum …
One of our favorite cherry cocktails with ginger liqueur, fresh cherries and mixed with gin! This Cherry Smash cocktail is perfect for spring! When our kiddos were little one of their favorite things to sip on a hot day was a cherry limeade. This tasty combo of sweet red maraschino cherry syrup and limeade …
A great combo of rosemary, tequila and grapefruit! Tequila is one the spirits that we have a real love and hate relationship, because a lot of the experiences with tequila were those we had back in our college days when we were drinking cheap tequila in badly mixed cocktails or shots. Recently, we have …
A whiskey forward classic cocktail, the Ward Eight! While sitting around watching the news and all of the political craziness that comes with an election year, we decided that we needed a drink to help make sense of it it all. While it is fun to come up with original cocktails, every now and …
One of our favorite summer cocktails, a Blueberry Cucumber Moscow Mule Cocktail – a great combo of fresh blueberries and cucumbers with vodka and ginger beer! We have a whole bunch of spring birthdays, and with our family and friends never missing a chance to throw a shindig, we get tasked with bringing the …