Gingermint Smash

As usual, our mint crop is growing like crazy in our barrel planter. After our newsletter poll this spring asking what we should grow in our garden this year, we planted Ginger Mint in the [...]

REMEMBER THE WAY

Our drink of the month for April has been a surprise favorite on our latest menu. It’s a riff on a drink called the Remember the Maine, which is a riff on the Manhattan. We incorporated [...]

MULETIDE GREETINGS

We love adding a fun, festive twist to our favorite classic cocktails! The rich spice of ginger beer makes the perfect pairing for a spiced apple simple syrup. Stick with North Shore Vodka for a [...]

CORPSE REVIVER NO. 2

Long a favorite here at North Shore Distillery, the Corpse Reviver No. 2 has an enduring popularity that befits the killer name and fantastic recipe. Over the years we’ve tried a number of [...]

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS

February is a month for dreaming and romance — in the Chicagoland area we’re dreaming of the tropics and our Take Me to the Tropics Party, as winter begins its third month! And of course [...]

SOUTH SEAS

The bar team here at NSD always has a great time coming up with original tropical-style cocktails — there are so many fun flavors to play around with in that style of cocktails, and the result is [...]

NORDIC EXPRESS

This cocktail is a layered, herbal riff on a modern classic, the Espresso Martini. We swap out the vodka for rich, savory Aquavit – Private Reserve, and adding a dash of herbal complexity Sirène [...]

CHRISTMAS IN BRITTANY

Delight in intriguing layers of botanical, fruit & citrus notes with this cocktail! Bright, rich botanicals from Dearborn Gin combine with the deep herbal notes of Sirène Absinthe Verte, [...]

BRITTANY BEACH

Delight in intriguing layers of botanical, floral & citrus notes with this cocktail! Bright, rich botanicals from Dearborn Gin combine with the deep herbal notes of Sirène Absinthe Verte, [...]

CLASSIC SMASH

The last weeks of July are a great time for garden cocktails, since the herbs planted way back in the spring are giving plentiful harvest now. The star of the show here at the distillery is our [...]