Mix That Drink

JUNE 23, 2025

RELATED: Gold Emerald Shooter recipe About the Ingredients Vodka Vodka is a staple in lots of cocktails because it’s smooth and doesn’t have a strong flavor of its own. The Fickle Pickle is light, crisp, and kind of sneaky. It’s easy to sip, and the flavors blend in a way that makes each taste a little different from the last.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2025

The most taterific purveyor of the trend was a brand called Good Times Bourbon, launched during the pandemic, which made its bones with truly insane finishes: peach brandy, wildflower honey, caramel syrup. Were they truly finishing these bourbons — who has ever seen a barrel-aged strawberry kiwi brandy ?! — It didn’t matter.

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VinePair

AUGUST 6, 2025

For Dorda, vodka has always been a sipping spirit — not just a cocktail component or shooter — and Chopin paved the way for a slew of others in the “super premium” space in the following years. Unlike other spirits such as whiskey , rum, brandy , and tequila , oak barrel aging is unheard of in the vodka space.

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Cocktails with Suderman

AUGUST 2, 2024

You want a plum brandy Negroni topped with diet orange soda? Or the Natural Shooter. One of the many great things about home bartending is that you can make drinks any way you want. You can play with base spirits, modifiers, add-ons, bitters, and so forth. You can fuss over your drinks — or make them a little carelessly.

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Moody Mixologist

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The drink also began to appear in a short form on menus as a shot or a shooter, introducing it to a younger generation of drinkers. The Margarita is an example of a daisy (tequila, lime juice, triple sec), as is the classic Sidecar (brandy, lemon juice, triple sec). Ok, class dismissed - on to the cocktail!

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