campari
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Why You Need a Little Spray Bottle on Your Bar Cart
Rinsing a glass with a strongly-flavoured spirit before you pour your drink gives the cocktail a whisper of flavour without obscuring the star ingredients. Absinthe, Scotch, and herbal liqueurs like Campari and either colour of Chartreuse are all good rinsers but, as Food52 points out, the act of rinsing is just a tad wasteful. Rather…
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Why Is Everyone Suddenly Putting Olives in Their Spritzes?
Four years ago, the Campari company launched an aggressive campaign to turn the Aperol Spritz into the drink of the summer. It worked. The vibrant red-orange beverage flooded bar patios everywhere, and while its grip has loosened slightly since 2018, the bubbly cocktail is still very much present. But this year, I noticed a slight…
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Use Kombucha to Make a Summery ‘Negroni’
Thanks to a very detailed and helpful explainer that was recently published on this very site, I have started brewing my own kombucha. As a former brewer of beer, I have to say that brewing ‘booch is a much easier, more relaxed endeavour, and the end product does not make me sneeze. (Beer started making…
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Blend Two Pink Liqueurs Into a Campberry Cooler
A couple of weeks ago, I picked a flat of Hood strawberries. Hoods are sweet, delicate, and prone to going bad before you can process them all. So I utilised my usual strategy of drinking through my berry haul.