2022 Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 4 – Pomegranate Placebo. Welcome to the first Sober Sunday of the month. As in the past two years, we are bringing back this weekly feature to introduce you to creative non-alcoholic cocktails and exciting zero-proof spirits. This particular concoction is made entirely with fruit juices,…
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Pomegranate Vodka Old Fashioned
2021 Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 12 – Pomegranate Vodka Old Fashioned. Old Fashioneds aren’t just for whisky. This foundational cocktail format works beautifully with award-winning Georgian Bay Vodka and muddled orange peel and pomegranate arils. Stirred to silky smooth perfection and double-strained. The original definition of the word “cocktail” first appeared in print in The…
Pom Pom Garland
Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar – Day 22 – Pom Pom Garland. We’re nearly at the end of the 2020 edition, Christmas is nearly upon us, and somehow this is the first appearance of pomegranate juice thus far. In the past I’ve created a whisky-based pomegranate cocktail in the form of the Sleigh Girl…
Feliz Navidad
Oh, you don’t think of margaritas when you think of Christmas? Well, I’ve put together this handy checklist to determine whether or not margaritas are a seasonally appropriate cocktail for the holidays. Can you make a margarita with seasonal juices like pomegranate and clementine? Check. Can you make a margarita in Christmas appropriate shade of…
Sleigh Girl Sleigh
Annnnnd we’re back at it. Welcome to the 2019 edition of the Let’s Get Blitzen: Cocktail Advent Calendar. Kicking things off with this very simple and delicious “Sleigh Girl Sleigh” cocktail. A combination of pomegranate juice, apple juice, freshly squeezed lemon juice for brightness, cinnamon syrup and rye whisky round out this seasonal sipper. This…
Persian Chicken Wraps
Making these Persian chicken wraps could not be easier. That is, until the smoke detector goes off because your kitchen is missing a hood fan. Then you discover that the smoke detector is connected to the home security system. That very same home security system that you’ve never used and don’t have the passcode…
