SKIP TO RECIPE Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar features the most spirited cocktail yet, the Mae Rose. Don’t let her pretty pallor and fruity scent fool you, this drink packs a wallop. This is a solid 3.5-ounce cocktail is somewhere between a martini and a negroni and requires some seriously slow sipping and an…
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Christmas Clementine Drop
SKIP TO RECIPE Hello, beautiful. Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 4 features the lovely Christmas Clementine Drop. I stumbled across a cocktail recipe that called for freshly squeezed clementine juice and I felt like I was playing checkers and the author was playing 3D chess. Mind blown. It’s so stunningly simple, but…
Three Citrus Sour
SKIP TO RECIPE Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 3 brings us this brandy-based Three Citrus Sour. Three different kinds of freshly squeezed citrus juice make for a very bright cocktail. The egg white adds a nice froth and a bit of fattiness to balance out the acid. Brandy is a bar cart…
Raspberry Whisky Bramble
SKIP TO RECIPE Day 2 of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar brings us this Raspberry Whisky Bramble. This is a very easy drinking cocktail that elevates the standard “rye and ginger” that you might have enjoyed ordering from Pier 21 when you were in undergrad, and brings it to a much more respectable…
Mezcal Mexican Hot Chocolate
SKIP TO RECIPE Welcome to the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar! This is Day 1 featuring this delightful heart and liver-warming Mezcal Mexican Hot Chocolate. Stay tuned, over the next 24 days, from December 1st through December 24th I’ll be featuring a new cocktail each day. This cocktail advent calendar is intended to inspire…
Celery and Cilantro Gin Gimlet
SKIP TO RECIPE There are few things in life that bring me more joy than being on a dance floor. Give me some funk, motown, old school hip hop, salsa, reggaeton, and I will be CUTTING A RUG. I inherited this trait from my father. I’m sure you’ve seen old white man dancing? Like, where…
Kentucky Toddy
SKIP TO RECIPE Is there anything more satisfying than a nice hot cup of apple cider on a cool autumn day? Yes. Hot apple cider WITH bourbon. #lifehack Bourbon, like butter, makes everything better. Spice makes it extra nice. Cinnamon, ginger, and a squeeze of lemon make this drink a new fall favourite. I’m a…
Cranberry Constellation
SKIP TO RECIPE Hot damn. This post, this one right here, this is my 100th post on Taste and Tipple! That feels good. I’ll be over here patting myself on the back and raising a glass to my damn self. I’ll pour one out for you guys too. Thank you for following along, whether this…
Fernet Fantasy
SKIP TO RECIPE Cheers to the frickin’ weekend! It’s been a good but busy week and I’m ready to unwind this weekend. By unwind, I mean try to make my closet more functional so the clothing rod doesn’t collapse under the weight of my wardrobe, pick up a dresser, nightstands and bedside lamps, go to…
On Tilt Old Fashioned
SKIP TO RECIPE We’re raising a glass to more exciting developments today. As you may recall, I recently turned 30, started a new job, and I’ve just purchased my first home! I take possession of my new condo on Thursday. This is a very big step but I am looking forward to living the…
