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