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BarNotes Recipe of the Week – Exiles & Poetry

Author: Dani DeLuna.

Recently acquired Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey and it is damn tasty. I wanted to put it in a pre-prohibition era cocktail for these autumnal times. Slainte!

See the full recipe for Exiles & Poetry on BarNotes

Ingredients:

Teeling Single Grain Irish Whiskey

Cynar

Dolin Dry

Boker’s Bitters

Garnish: Orange peel

Preparation:

Combine ingredients over ice and stirrrrrrrrr.…

BarNotes Recipe of the Week – Fall Classic

Author: Kim Gooden.

This cocktail is from Gramercy Tavern and was featured in Bon Appetit. The recipe calls for apple brandy and bourbon. I used bonded Laird’s and Rittenhouse bonded rye, and it was pretty tasty.

See the full recipe for Fall Classic on BarNotes

Ingredients:

apple brandy

bourbon

apple cider

lemon juice

thyme-infused simple syrup

Ango

Preparation:

To make the syrup: Boil 1/2 cup…

BarNotes Recipe of the Week – Lafayette

Author: Walker Williams.

Think of this as what would happen if Arnold Palmer liked drinking while driving the golf cart as much as the rest of us.

There are a few variations of this floating around Charleston at the moment but I still go back to my version for the simplicity.

Love this as a summer cocktail.

See the full recipe for Lafayette on BarNotes

Ingredients:

Bulleit Rye

Averna amaro

lem…

BarNotes Recipe of the Week – Two Apples

Author: Stew Ellington.

A friend mentioned that Stiggin’s’ and apple brandy “play well together.” I wanted to try them in a Manhattan variant, et voila.

See the full recipe for Two Apples on BarNotes

Ingredients:

Plantation Stiggin’s’ Fancy pineapple-infused rum

Laird’s 7.5-year apple brandy

Punt e Mes

clove bitters

Preparation:

Stir and strain into a cocktail glass.

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