Category: Cocktails & Spirits

Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey With Great Chocolate Flavor

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[1] Cocoa Bomb on the rocks (photo © Heritage Distilling). [2] A cocoa bomb, inspiration for the whiskey (photo © Williams Sonoma).   Here’s a different type of chocolate for Halloween…or Christmas…or Valentine’s Day…or whenever: Cocoa Bomb Chocolate Whiskey from Heritage Distilling. Heritage is the largest independently owned craft distillery in the Pacific Northwest. It’s…
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A Smoking Margarita Recipe For Halloween

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How about an eerily smoking Margarita for Halloween? In this case, a grapefruit Margarita is enhanced with fresh rosemary and a smoking rosemary sprig. Thanks to Canta Negra Tequila for the recipe. > More Margarita recipes. > More Halloween cocktail recipes. > The history of the Margarita.     RECIPE: ROSEMARY-GRAPEFRUIT MARGARITA   Ingredients Per…
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Mozart Chocolate Pumpkin Spice, A Treat For The Season

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Why give a box of chocolates to your foodie friends for Halloween and Thanksgiving, when you can introduce them to a “spirited” treat: Mozart Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Liqueur. For more than 60 years, the Mozart Distillerie has been making cream liqueur in Salzburg, Austria, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (hence the brand name). The…
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Calvados, The Finest Apple Brandy From France

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From the orchards of Normandy, France comes Calvados, at its simplest an apple brandy. But it is the best apple brandy (or more precisely eau-de-vie*) in the world. Once fer­men­ted, apple juice becomes cider, and, once dis­tilled, the cider becomes a cider eau-de-vie. The cider that begins thew process is pressed from specially grown cider…
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A Halloween Margarita With A Black Salt Rim

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[1] A green Margarita with a black salt rim (photos #1, #2, and #3 © Twang). [2] Don’t forget the eyeballs! [3] Buy the salt here. The different types of salt. > The history of salt. > About beer salt: A NIBBLE review. > More Halloween cocktail recipes.     RECIPE: MONSTER MARGARITA   Ingredients…
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