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  • The Salty Dog

    The Salty Dog Gin Cocktail FI

    The Salty Dog gin cocktail is just that – full of salt. It’s a riff of the Greyhound, which is made with vodka. Adding the salt makes it the Salty Dog, breed be damned. Some places will tell you that the Greyhound can be made with vodka or gin, which it obviously can. BUT – the two are not interchangeable in terms of tastes. Gin is just better. Change up…

  • Make Your Own Grenadine Cocktail Syrup!

    Grenadine ingredients FI

    It couldn’t be easier to make your own grenadine – that deep pink cocktail syrup loved by tiki drinks and Shirley Temple loving kids everywhere. I won’t like and say there are hundreds of gin drinks that long for some of this sweet pink syrup, but there are a few. Making your own grenadine also has the epic bonus of eliminating some high fructose corn syrup and perhaps some other…

  • Gin and Bitters Cocktail

    Gin and Bitters FI

    This is an easy take on the classic Gin and Tonic. The Gin and Bitters cocktail lets you take whatever flavor you like in a garnish and amplify that flavor with the use of corresponding bitters. What are bitters? Bitters are intense flavors in a liquor base. They share a similar history to our other favorite ingredient, quinine with a history of medicinal use. Quinine was meant for malaria and…

  • The Gin Old Fashioned

    Gin Old Fashioned FI

    Because bourbon can’t have all the fun. This delightful punch of gin that is the Gin Old Fashioned is guaranteed to entice you to pick only the best gin, and then enjoy it slowly. It’s “gin forward” to say the very least. I DO NOT recommend this drink to those of you that love fruit, mixing things, and not tasting the gin. I DO recommend this drink to those of…

  • The Gin and Ginger

    gin and ginger cocktail FI

    Or is the Gin and Ginger really called the Gin Buck? More on that later. Perhaps this Gin and Ginger is on par with the Gin and Tonic, perhaps not. The subtle taste of quinine, the old fashioned malaria medicine, in Tonic Water is not for everyone. But Ginger Ale just might be. The absolute beauty of gin is that it’s so basic – you can make it your own.…

  • The Peppered Gin and Tonic

    Peppered Gin and Tonic FI

    Sometimes you want to keep your Gin and Tonic simple, but not that simple.  This delightful Peppered Gin and Tonic cocktail adds just a hint of flavor on top of your chosen gin and your chosen garnish.   The Peppered Gin and Tonic Cocktail This drink works well with a London dry gin, to really let the garnish and pepper flavors come through.   Ideas on how to stack your Peppered Gin…

  • The Elderflower Collins Gin Cocktail

    Elderflower collins gin cocktail FI

    Sit back and relax with this light and fizzy Elderflower Collins Gin Cocktail. It’s easy to make sweeter, tarter, or more bubbly than the recipe. Your pick. Elderflower liquors, like St. Germaine, are fairly sweet, as they are derived from the elderflowers that bloom on the elderberry bush. Now you know. The Tom Collins recipe is basically a ginny and fizzy lemonade, this recipe is a quick twist on that…

  • Gin and Juice

    Gin and Juice with Raspberry FI

    Can you find an easier and more delicious gin cocktail to make than the Gin and Juice? Probably not. I’m pretty sure this Gin and Juice cocktail came before the song. It’s easy, light, and can be mixed to your liking. The simplicity of this cocktail ranks up there with the Gin and Tonic, but with many different tastes. It’s more “brunchy” than most gin drinks. Speaking of brunch drinks,…

  • Orange Mint Gin Spritzer

    Orange Mint Gin Spritzer FI

    This fantastic orange and gin cocktail is a subtly flavored and mild fizzy drink, perfect for summer and sipping slowly. This Orange Mint Gin Spritzer recipe is loosely based on a SMASH – which is really just a formula for making drinks – spirit, sugar, mint, and soda or seltzer. It’s quite fun to make, and because you get to muddle things, you can really intensify the flavors that you…