So, now that you’ve infused a batch of cedar tequila, it’s time to cocktail. It can be substituted in most standard tequila or white rum cocktails, but avoid powerful flavours (like tomato juice) that will mask the cedar. Smokehouse Margarita Ingredients 2.5 oz. cedar tequila 2.5 oz. fresh lime juice … Read More
I’m about to utter a dirty word, and you’re just going to have to bear with me: premix. Everyone still here? Okay, let’s get on with it. Toronto brothers Bruno and Davide Codispoti, looking upon Canada Club’s efforts to sell canned rye and cola, the seemingly endless supply of syrupy-sweet … Read More
With a higher proof and a bit less sweetness than it’s brethren, Malibu Black is for those of us who like the idea of rum and coconut, but like to keep cocktail hour separate from desert. Malibu Black Cocorinha Ingredients 1 oz. Malibu Black Half a fresh orange Half a … Read More
Another Hemingway favourite, the Daiquiri is perhaps the Caribbean’s iconic cocktail. Invented at a bar called El Floridita in Havana, this is the original Cuban recipe, which is why we’re using Havana Club. Ingredients 2 teaspoons of sugar Juice of half a lime Dash of maraschino liqueur Crushed ice 2 … Read More
Don’t think of the mojito as a girly drink—it bears the Earnest Hemingway stamp of approval, and if a hard-drinking, hard-fighting, big game fisherman like Hemingway could love the mojito, you can too. The mojito was actually invented in a Havana bar in 1942: La Bodeguita del Medio, and it’s … Read More
