Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey

Cocktails with Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey From National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day to International Whiskey Day and National Cocktail Day, March is packed with reasons to celebrate with a creative cocktail! May we suggest you try out Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey? Sounds crazy, but it’s delicious on its own or on…

What’s Karen Drinking – Ungava Gin

Mixing Up A Ungava Gin G & T With Grapefruit Juice From our pal Karen: I was totally fascinated with Ungava Gin @ungava_gin when the bold and beautiful yellow colour caught my eye in the Gin aisle. This Canadian Gin is named after the Ungava Peninsula found at the northern tip of Quebec. It has natural herbs…

Wild Sweets® – Mulled Hot Cherry Cocoa Tea

Wild Sweets® Cocktail For The Holidays Why not sweeten up your holiday party with a little something special. Mulled wine is so last year. Ingredients: 8 oz / 250 mL Cherry Cocoa Tea (1 bottle) from Wild Sweets® By Dominique & Cindy Duby 1/2 orange flesh (± 45g) 1 pinch Ancho chili powder 1.5 oz French…

Christmas In November Cocktails With Micah Dew

Micah Dew Mixes Up Magic For The Holidays and Beyond Still catching up on posts from all I learned this year and want to share some drink recipes from my Alberta trip so you can create a few during the holiday season! Another great seminar at the Jasper Park Lodge’s Christmas in November weekend, was…

Guy Stowell Mixes Up Cocktails MadeWithLove

Guy Stowell at Cocktail Tasting at O5 Tea To prep for tonight’s MadeWithLove cocktail competition, Bartender and Moon Shine Tastings owner Guy Stowell entertained some of our readers at O5 Tea on West 4th. His cocktails were superb and focused on Tequila, Rum and Campari! Here’s a couple of the recipes. Smashed Jimador 1.5 oz 1800…

Evelyn Chick’s Ladies in L’voire – Cointreau

Evelyn Chick just placed in Madmoiselle Cointreau, the search for the best Canadian female bartender with this Cointreau-based cocktail. Ladies in L’voire 1.5 oz Cointreau .25 oz green chartreuse .5 oz lime juice .5 oz lemon juice 2 dashes angostura 3 dashes housemade rosemary tincture 1 tbsp bergamot sorbet Shake in perlini, charge with CO2…

St. Patrick’s Day Cocktail A Thorn Among Kings

St. Patrick’s Day calls for all things Irish. We’ll be noshing on some corned beef and cabbage, and sipping good Irish Whiskey. This Irish Whiskey Cocktail is brought to us by Trevor Kallies of Donnelly Group. A new-style of Irish whiskey cocktail: A Thorn Among Kings 2oz Red Breast Irish Whiskey 1oz Dubonnet 2 Dash…

Summer Sippers and Hot Tracks at Red Card

Stylish Venue Introduces Daily Features and Weekend DJs Escape the summer heat with cool cocktail features and the latest beats by some of Vancouver’s top DJ’s at Red Card. There’s a drink perfectly crafted for every night of the week all summer long in this super chic, air conditioned downtown venue. The cocktails featured are…

The Creole Julep

Tales of the Cocktail – 2009 Official Cocktail: The Creole Julep Maksym Pazuniak, a mixologist at Rambla and Cure, won over the judges with his balanced and well-layered julep featuring Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum, Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb, Captain Morgan 100 Proof Rum, Fee Brothers Peach Bitters, Angostura Bitters, fresh mint, and Demerara sugar….

Garden Daisy – Cameron Bogue – DB Moderne Bistro

1 ½ oz Wyborowa Vodka ½ oz Cointreau ½ oz Lemon Juice ½ oz Simple Syrup 1 oz Carrot Juice 2 Basil Leaves Glass – Martini Garnish – Basil Leaf, Super Fine Sugar Rim Method – Shake and Double Strain Up History/Rational – A twist on a daisy this cocktail incorporates spring vegetables and herbs…