Strawberry-Rhubarb Fizz

What is better than the first spring cuts of rhubarb? Or the first few strawberries from your garden (or local farmers market). This cocktail is. Seriously. This cocktail takes all of the [...]

Monkey Gland

We love to create a creepy cocktail menu for Halloween at the Tasting Room and the Monkey Gland usually makes an appearance on it.  We also served it at a Prohibition-themed event in December, [...]

Silver Fizz

This week’s drink is a simple variation on a Jerry Thomas classic from the late 1800s. Throwing an egg white into a Fizz makes it a “silver” Fizz. Throwing some ginger syrup [...]

Karin’s Gimlet

We had a Ginger Gimlet on our cocktail menu here at the distillery this summer, and one of our frequent visitors, named Karin, loved that cocktail. One time, she noticed we had some blueberries [...]

Blueberry Basil Smash

This cocktail has been so popular, we’ve practically been stripping our little basil plant and we took it off the menu for a little while! We made boozy popsicles with it for the Venus de [...]

The Southside

Here is a great spring cocktail very similar to a Smash, and purportedly invented in Chicago (and popular with mobsters back in the day). Throw on a Fedora and enjoy! The Southside 2 oz [...]

Lemongrass Gimlet

If you hadn’t already noticed, we love the gimlet and making variations on this great basic recipe. Using lemongrass syrup is an easy way to add a little flair to this simple, classic [...]

Classic Martini

You can’t go wrong with this elegant classic. We vary the amount of vermouth depending on the day, some days we pour liberally into our mixing glass. Other times, we swirl the glass with [...]

Springtime Shrub

A few years back, I started making shrub syrups for drinking, and for cocktails. Shrubs were a popular way in colonial times (and beyond) to preserve fruit that might otherwise spoil. Folks [...]