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January 17, 2018 Joe Barwin

Venus Spirits’ El Ladron: 3 Bottles & 6 Cocktails
Venus Spirits has been making organic spirits since 2014, including gin, whiskey, and their funkily categorized El Ladron ‘Blue Agave Spirit’. Made with blue agave from the Highlands of Mexico, it’s not technically tequila since it’s distilled in Santa Cruz. While it loses a label, what it gains is Venus’ hand-pounded copper Alembic still.
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January 17, 2018 Meredith Lantz

Surly Temple - Cocktail Recipe
The Surly Temple is our riff on the Shirley Temple (ginger and grenadine). With a touch more vim and vigor, we mean spice and vinegar, we imagine this is what Shirley drank when she grew up.
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January 17, 2018 Meredith Lantz

Banana-drams, a bunch of bottles to peel you away from those winter blues
Feeling bananas here. Ready to split for summer, but while we wait, we're going ape for these fruit forward ingredients to mix, bitter, and sip our way to a tropical paradise.
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January 17, 2018 Meredith Lantz

The Salty Mary Cocktail Recipe - guaranteed to fortify and invigorate
Here's a refreshing, wintry spin on a vodka tonic. It utilizes easy-to-find ingredients, but has just enough flourish that it feels special—which for us, classifies it as a genius cocktail. Joe advises that both supermarket and high-end varieties of grapefruit soda work well.
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January 17, 2018 Meredith Lantz

Up Your Syrup Game - Bar Staples
Syrups are a key ingredient in many cocktails, helping to smooth out the base spirit and balance sour citrus juice.

It’s easy to make simple syrup at home with equal parts sugar and water (or 2-to-1 for a rich syrup), just simmer over a low flame to combine.

Flavored syrups add extra oomph and wow factor to your cocktails. But the most common brands are made with high fructose corn syrup and artificial flavoring.

Look for labels with sugar or cane sugar as the sweetener for a higher quality option.

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January 17, 2018 Meredith Lantz

BuzzFree #FakeBooze
Even the Bitters + Bottles team, some of the most dedicated booze enthusiasts in all the land, balance out the cheer-filled holiday season with a few extra rounds of NO-ABV drinks come January. In the interest of full disclosure, we've compiled a dossier of some of our very favorite buzz-free beverage enhancers.
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Venus Spirits’ El Ladron: 3 Bottles & 6 Cocktails

Surly Temple - Cocktail Recipe

Banana-drams, a bunch of bottles to peel you away from those winter blues

The Salty Mary Cocktail Recipe - guaranteed to fortify and invigorate

Up Your Syrup Game - Bar Staples

BuzzFree #FakeBooze