The A-/B+: Maple Cider Bourbon Smash

Sometimes a cocktail is born of what you have around. Last Sunday as we were settling in to an afternoon of football, I realized we were low on vodka, which put a damper on our Moscow Mule plans. I'm constantly looking for ways to learn to enjoy bourbon and this maple cider cocktail might just be…

ByMichelleNovember 18, 20160Comments

Beverages Recipes

The Cocorano – Coconut Gin Fizz with Dry Sparkling Serrano Pepper

Linger in Denver, Colorado knows how to do brunch. The food is always fantastic, but maybe more importantly they've got a small, but solid selection of brunch drinks. The coconut gin fizz is the kind of brunch cocktail you could lose a Sunday to, so good you can't stop throwing them back. I'm not usually a big…

ByMichelleJune 24, 20160Comments

Beverages Entertaining Recipes

Rhubarb Apple Vodka Collins Featuring Dry Sparkling Fuji Apple

Ginger ale, club soda, and tonic are your three standard mixers. Coke and 7-up sometimes make appearances, but it's time to take another look the next time you're walking down the soda aisle. There are a slew of new options in craft soda, squarely aimed at the mixology opportunity. Players big and small are getting in…

ByMichelleJune 2, 20160Comments

Beverages Recipes

Summer Sipper: Red Wine Sangria

It only takes a few lost Sundays to put you off one drink or another. There's a reason people snicker knowingly at, "One margarita, two margarita, three margarita, floor." In college, one too many cheap, bowl-sized glasses of sangria put it on my list of top hangover-inducing beverages, right behind bottom-shelf margaritas and Long Island Iced Teas. It'd been a long time since I'd had sangria, and even longer since I’d had good sangria. Until La Condesa.

ByMichelleJune 16, 20130Comments

Beverages Entertaining Fruit Recipes

Don’t Call Me Shirley Raspberry Spritzer

Drinks named after celebrities seem to belong to a bygone era. One of the thrills of going out to dinner with my parents when I was little was ordering a Shirley Temple. With its delicate pink hue and a maraschino cherry floating on top, a Shirley Temple made you feel like one of the grownups. I think I even ordered one at dinner before junior prom. Today, if I ordered a Roy Rogers or an Arnold Palmer, I expect most people would know what I was after without explanation. But some where along the line, drinks named after celebrities fell out of favor. Can you imagine ordering a George Clooney, a Justin Bieber, or a Tiger Woods? The idea for this raspberry spritzer started as a spin on a Shirley Temple, which I’ve always thought of as 7-up and grenadine, but Wikipedia claims the soda is actually ginger ale. Made with a fresh raspberry syrup brightened by lemon, this spritzer is sweet but not cloying. And yes, it takes 3 half-pints of berries, but it’ll put any Italian soda made with bottled syrup to shame.

ByMichelleJuly 30, 20120Comments