A Bar Above
JANUARY 17, 2024
In this course, Chris shows you step-by-step how to use ingredients like botanicals for flavor pairings, turning a plain bottle of booze into flavored liquor you can use for nuanced craft cocktails. Copyright A Bar Above Bitters & Tinctures Workshop What even are bitters and tinctures? Sign up for the course here.
Australian Bartender
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
The bar takes inspiration from kasippu (Sri Lankas famous homemade liquor), which means almost everythingsyrups, cordials, tincturesis made in-house. The bar takes inspiration from Kasippu (Sri Lanka’s famous home-made liquor), Which means almost everything, syrups, cordials, tinctures, is made in-house.
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A Bar Above
DECEMBER 21, 2023
Surprisingly, the origin word “mocktail” doesn’t come from a sober mixologist but instead from a 1979 Libbey Glass advertisement targeting both alcohol-drinkers and those who abstain from liquor. In your local liquor store and online, you’ll find a wide array of bitters. So, too, are craft mocktails.
Chilled Magazine
JULY 17, 2024
In a nutshell, it combines vacuum oleo-saccharum, “oil sugar,” to pull the aromatic oils from an herb via osmotic dehydration, and a good old fashioned liquor infusion. Herb washing is the working terminology for a technique being developed to achieve a full spectrum extraction of flavor from an herb.
Chilled Magazine
JANUARY 1, 2024
Another standout is the Sesame State of Mind, featuring Spice Trade Gin fat-washed with house made sesame oil, combined with coconut milk, lemongrass syrup, homemade ginger liqueur, Thai chili tincture, and cucumber for a complex and balanced flavor profile.
Cocktail Whisperer
MAY 21, 2024
Learning about these aspects of the flower, syrup, tincture, or other weed product can help the novice bartender key into the flavors best paired with their drink recipe. The dynamic liquor can complement many classic cocktail flavors and inventive new creations, much like weed. You can thank me later,” Wall said.
VinePair
AUGUST 22, 2024
The 176-proof bottles apparently come with 13 different health warnings on the label, and one liquor store even warns on its website that it “essentially shouldn’t be drunk neat, sniffed, held or even owned. This is the base used in medicinal tinctures, homemade bitters, and perfumery.” So, use at your own discretion.
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