The Carnivore’s Mezcal

The Carnivore’s Mezcal

The Carnivore’s Mezcal Mezcal is a Mexican spirit with around 40% alcohol by volume, distilled from the pulp of different agave species. The taste and appearance of the distillate vary depending on the type of agave, the region, how it is prepared and how long...
Your Lips Must Touch The Toe

Your Lips Must Touch The Toe

Your Lips Must Touch The Toe In Dawson City on the east bank of the Yukon is the only place where one can drink a Sourtoe Cocktail at the Downtown Hotel’s bar. The small, former gold mining town in Canada’s northwest hosts since the early 1970s the more...
The Queen Mother’s Cocktail

The Queen Mother’s Cocktail

The Queen Mother’s Cocktail In 1846 Joseph Dubonnet invented a sweet, aromatized wine-based aperitif. Originally, it was meant as a malaria remedy for French legionnaires as it is a blend of fortified wine, herbs, and spices, and quinine but it should become...
Advocaat – the Holiday Likör

Advocaat – the Holiday Likör

Advocaat – the Holiday Likör Dutch Brazil (also New Holland) was a Dutch colony in northeastern Brazil from 1630 to 1654. So it may not surprise that in the 17th century, the Brazilian drink “Abacate” which was brewed by the indigenous people of the...
Paulanersche Doppelbock Brewed for Lent

Paulanersche Doppelbock Brewed for Lent

Paulanersche Doppelbock Brewed for Lent The monastery of Neudeck ob der Au in Munich was founded in 1627 after the Bavarian Elector Maximilian I brought Paulaner monks from Italy to his country. The Paulaner order imposed strict fasting rules during Lent on its...