Gin No. 11 Recipes

This weekend has Chicagoland facing down our first real winter weather of this season, and it’s looking like a whopper! A one-two punch, with a winter maelstrom followed by Arctic chills.  [...]

Winter festivities have descended on our Tasting Room, transforming it into North Pole Distillery! Of course, we created some exciting, uniquely festive signature cocktails for the frosty North [...]

This fantastic cocktail has a bit of everything — winter fruit & herbs, warming spice, classic botanicals, and even a hint of intriguing vegetal flavor. Exciting, refreshing, layered; a [...]

Halloween Cocktails ‘Tis the season for spooks, spirits, haunted orchards, zombies & creepy crawlies — spooky season! It’s great inspiration for cocktailing — this year [...]

What to do after one releases an amaro … try it in some classic cocktails, of course! The White Negroni is a modern riff on the classic Negroni, re-imagined with all white spirits. This [...]

As the calendar turns to October and autumn chill fills the forecast, we’re diving in to fall! Our new fall cocktail menu debuts next week, full of classic fall flavors like apple, honey, [...]

This bright, refreshing concoction is perfect for summer, adding fresh berry notes to mint & citrus – a worthy classic cocktail indeed! The Smash is a super versatile cocktail, and will [...]

The weather here on the North Shore is taking a turn for the cold and snowy as we speak, so we’re going with a hot drink. We don’t want to hype this drink up too much, but … some have [...]

Summer has arrived in earnest, and July always brings bright, fresh summer cocktails to the distillery. A perennial fan favorite here is the Cucumber Caipiroska – we’ve been making it every [...]

The Clover Club is a cocktail with a long history – originally popular during the pre-Prohibition days of cocktails, it fell out of favor until being resurrected during the cocktail resurgence of [...]