Blackbeard’s Ghost
rums, falernum, apricot, orange, lemon, Angostura
Siembra Azul Blanco tequila
Siembra Azul Blanco tequila. Happy Cinco De Mayo and #DrinkoDeMayo! While you’re enjoying your margaritas and tequila shots, here’s some info to hopefully help you find better and tastier tequila to drink. First, some basics: tequila is the spirit that is distilled from cooked agave plants. Agave nectar is about…
Zwack Pecsetes Barack Pálinka
Zwack Pecsetes Barack Pálinka, aka Hungarian Apricot Brandy. This was one of my very first bottles of the non-standard stuff after starting out with my homebar. I saw a lot of recipes calling for “apricot brandy” and picked this up, not knowing much about it. Turns out, there are two…
Del Maguey Vida Mezcal
Del Maguey Vida. Mezcal is tequila’s less well-known, but cooler, more hipster sibling (well technically, mezcal is the term for any agave-based spirit, *including* tequila, but let’s just focus on the more common interpretation of mezcal as a type of smoky agave spirit). Mezcal is also the Mexican liquor that…