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 [...]

CAMERON’S KICK

It’s March, which means at the distillery everything is coming to focus on the upcoming release of our 2023 batch of Malt Whiskey.  So naturally our March Drink of the Month will feature [...]

SPICE TRADE

Every year in February we like to have a night that’s all about the tropics, where we turn the temperature up, throw on our most tropical shirts and pretend the tasting room has been transported [...]

TROPICAL VACATION

The fun doesn’t end after summer here at the distillery! During fall and winter we usually keep one or two exciting tropical cocktails on our menu, to remind us of summer sun and [...]

MARTINEZ

The Martinez is considered by some to be the antecedent of the Martini – it’s a sweet spin on the vermouth cocktails popularized in the late 19th century. The recipe is traditionally [...]

DEARBORN DAISY

We’re nearing the end of citrus season, that delightful time in winter when the bounties of all sorts of citrus fruits are readily available. This cocktail is a layered citrusy sipper, [...]

WHISKEY, NEAT

As you probably know, we love a well-made, balanced cocktail here in our tasting room, but when we create our spirits we take care that they are both delicious to mix in cocktails and delicious [...]

PENICILLIN

This cocktail is based on the warm winter flavors that have classically been used to chase off a cold — whiskey, honey, ginger & lemon. Despite the fact that it was created only 16 years ago [...]

20TH CENTURY

The 20th Century is an old-school cocktail, as you might surmise from the name! It’s named not after the century itself, but rather after the 20th Century Limited train line which ran [...]