Category: Whiskey

• Drinking Poetic: The Banana Dance

  

  I’m prouder of the Banana Dance than almost any other drink that I’ve created. More so than I probably have any right to be. It’s an esoteric, nerdy, centrifuge requiring, relatively prep heavy drink that is ultimately delicious, complicated, and easy to batch and execute in a way that belies its complexity. Its evolution is also a damn good microcosm of my personal journey behind the…

  bottledinbondla

  January 10, 2020

  cocktails, Competition, Drinking Poetic, Sherry, Whiskey

  Banana Dance, Centrifuge, Drinking Poetic, Irish Whiskey, Josephine Baker, R&D, Sherry

• Drinking Poetic (On A Christmas Wednesday): The Nutcracker

  

  I’ve always felt disconnected from the Holiday season. While I grew up Catholic it has had been many a solstice since I identified as such. I’ve also spent the past 10+ years living 2,500+ miles from the family and friends I grew up with. As such when the holidays roll around I often find myself latching on…

  bottledinbondla

  December 26, 2019

  cocktails, Competition, Drinking Poetic, Elijah Craig, Heaven Hill, Whiskey, Whiskey Wednesday

  Chestnuts, cocktail recipe, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Elijah Craig, The Nutcracker, Whiskey Wednesday

• Drinking Poetic: Cascading Lines

  

  This is the story of a drink that got away from me.  As I’ve said before I tend to turn every drink into a brown, bitter, and stirred variation on a theme. It should therefore come as no surprise that I’ve been trying to play around with some version of a hopped Old Fashioned style drink for…

  bottledinbondla

  July 17, 2019

  cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Genever, Spirits, Whiskey, Whiskey Wednesday

  Aquavit, Cascading Lines, cocktail recipe, cocktails, Drinking Poetic, Genever, Henry McKenna, Hops, Whiskey Wednesday