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Even though sparkling wine is always welcome at our table any time of year, there is something extra special about those tiny bubbles come the holiday season. Whether it comes from a more traditional part of the world (looking at you, France, Italy and Spain), or somewhere a little more out of the ordinary (we see you, Germany, England, South Africa, USA, and Tasmania), this year we thought we’d take the opportunity to highlight some of the less commonly known styles and grapes that make delicious bubbles for any occasion. Let us help you choose your perfect finely carbonated bottle, from Pinot Noir to Corpinnat, Methode Traditionelle to Prosecco, we’ve got you covered!
With the weather beginning to turn cold and gloomy, people’s minds start to turn to drinks that will warm the body, delight the senses, and fortify their constitution. Whether it’s the cozy embrace of a hot toddy, a nip of Scotch on a blustery day, or the aroma of mulled wine wafting throughout the house, winter makes us crave comfort and warmth.
Repeal day (December 5th) remembers the end of the Prohibition Era in American history and serves as a kind of unofficial start to the holiday drinking season (December 5 also happens to be Krampusnacht for anyone else that enjoys a spicy dram with St. Nick’s devilishly handsome Alpine counterpart). As an homage to the classics as well as looking forward to the holidays here are some delicious cocktails that will cut through the cold, take you to warmer climates, or help enliven you to keep the party going another day.
As we plan ahead for the holiday season, thinking about what wines to serve to friends and family rises to the top of the to do list (see our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide here for all your beverage options!). Our panelists recently sat down with a plethora of white, rosé, and red wines that fall into the $20 and under category (our World Value Wine Challenge) and wines that are $20 and above for our Stellar Cellar review, so roll up your sleeves and pour yourself a glass of your favorite ‘for now’ wine as we head down into the cellar and see what stood out to the experts’ palates.
The Festival of Barrel Aged Beers, more commonly known as FoBAB is about to celebrate their 20th anniversary here in Chicago. So, with beer on the mind and pint glasses in hand, we sat down with long-time friend, beer market savant, and local brewery employee, Mark Mesrobian, to discuss some of the current and emerging market trends, as well as BTI’s upcoming 2023 World Beer Championships.
The immediate future is a bit hazy, pun intended, but the biggest trend in beer right now seems to be the creativity of continuous change and giving the consumer something new—maybe not perfectly executed, but very high quality overall. As Mark puts it, “To a degree the taproom and regular releases are a bit like collecting Pokemon. This equates to small and frequent recipe tweaks rotating through to see what people respond most to, while new recipes take a bit longer to develop and capture flavors that appeal to the current trends. The challenge, other than maintaining the attention of consumers, is margins. The beer market was retracting before the pandemic, and we were already seeing bigger brands buying up craft brands for market consolidation. Once you toss in the growth of seltzers and RTDs, as well as supply chain shortages and price increases on supplies— well let’s just say that it’s not easy to be a small brewer unless you are innovating and responding to immediate consumer interests.”
Happy Halloween, fellow tasters! In honor of one of our favorite holidays, we thought we’d head deep down into our spooky annals and share with you a few of the ickiest, most ghoulish beverages we’ve tasted this year. So grab a flashlight and come down to the basement archives with us to dig up some dead bottles.
This year, we wanted to spotlight some of the lesser known winemaking regions of the United States, so we held the first annual Americana Cup, and the US of A really delivered. We evaluated scores of unique and regional wines from Georgia, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin to see what they had to offer, and it turned out to be quite a bit! Let’s take a look and see who were some of the standouts from this exciting new review.
Even as we look forward to the holiday cheer, there is always time to reflect on the year coming to a close. Being clearheaded for that reflection can sometimes be challenging with all the imbibing going on at various parties and events. It can also be challenging to find N/As and Spirits alike that can make you feel good about imbibing them, whether or not they come with a buzz. Our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide has you covered for all your mindful non-alcoholic (and alcoholic, no judgment here!) needs.
Holiday gifting is just around the corner and the team here at the Beverage Testing Institute has you covered on suggestions that will guide you and pair with any festive fair on your table. Our gift choices might also be more fun than other stocking stuffers, and potentially make that once a year chat with Aunt Kathy easier. Of course, we have the repeat Best of the Year Gin, amazing Whiskies, and sumptuous Wine featured.
Yet for those of you looking beyond the Best of Year, we also have cocktail suggestions with just the right bottles for your chosen elixir that fit within every budget to bring a bit more mirth and cheer. If you enjoy some brief heartfelt stories and guilty pleasures, we have those in the mix too. Even some low alcohol and no alcohol options to gift yourself and others, should you be ahead on the dry January plans. So please peruse our 2022 Holiday Gift Guide for all your beverage needs.
We here at BTI wish you a safe, happy, healthy, and prosperous holiday season.
WOW!!
What an exciting year of tasting and reviewing Spirits,
Wines, RTDs, Beer and everything else with our amazing panelists! Some incredible
gems in our list of the Best of
the Year selections that you don’t want to miss, but even the quasi-stellar
sips were highly educational, memorable, and a great reminder that making some
of these incredible products is a work of passion mixed with science, artistry,
and often a bit of good fortune. Take a look and hopefully discover a few new
favorites for your 2022!
The Sidecar is a much beloved drink that has stood the test of time; the simplicity of its build belies its depth of flavor (see here for a deeper dive into the history of this beloved cocktail). We had some colossal Cognacs and Brandies to come through this year, giving our panel of stellar judges some tough decisions to make for our World Cocktail Championships' Best Brandy in a Sidecar competition. We stuck to a popular iteration of the classic Sidecar build: 2 ounces of base spirit, 1 ounce of Cointreau, and ¾ ounce of freshly squeezed lemon juice, with the option to add an orange swath after the cocktail was tasted on its own. Let’s see who made the top four!
In art as well as life the stunning beauty that can be found in simplicity is sometimes striking. Such is the case with the Sidecar cocktail. Three basic ingredients Brandy (typically VSOP Cognac or older), Cointreau (or similar quality orange liqueur), and fresh lemon juice shaken over ice in a 2:1:1 ratio create a breathtaking cocktail that needs no improvement more than a century later.
While the cocktail is simple and delicious, its origin story is rather convoluted—like those for many classic drinks tend to be. Was the Sidecar first introduced at Buck’s Club in London, at the Ritz-Carlton in Paris, or somewhere else entirely? Was the cocktail in truth made for an American army captain who responsibly made sure to regularly have a compatriot drive him home in a motorcycle sidecar? While the who and where are up for debate, many cocktail historians agree that the drink was first crafted in 1920 or ‘21 and then appeared in Harry MacElhone’s ABC of Mixing Cocktails and Robert Vermeire’s Cocktails and How to Mix Them come 1922.
Almost a month has passed since the US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) proposed to adopt the American Single Malt Whiskey Commission’s (ASMWC) standards for American Single Malt Whiskey. For producers of American Single Malt (ASM), establishing a government-regulated Single Malt category has seemed like a slow process—centuries behind the Celtic nations they would argue. However, now things are moving fairly quickly with official adoption of the ASM standard likely in early 2023, after the required public comment period.
Once again, our esteemed panel of Chicago area bartenders and buyers got together to evaluate and decide the winners of our 2022 North American Whiskey Manhattan Cocktail Competition, and as usual it was no easy feat with such delicious competitors entering the ring. Wanting to showcase the Whiskey itself as much as possible, the cocktail build was classic, using the 2-1-2 recipe: 2 ounces of base spirit, 1 ounce of Carpano Antica, and 2 (hard) dashes of Angostura Bitters.
Temperatures and humidity have been soaring but don’t worry, no summer breaks here as we’ve stayed tucked away in the air-conditioned lab letting the whiskies transport us to winter in Australia, the rolling hills of Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, and the unthinkably even hotter high plains of India and the mountains of Taiwan. Of course, as these whiskies warmed the soul and filled us with wanderlust, we also made sure to keep our mavericks of malted distillates cool and busy appointing their favorite classic Highball.
We invited a panel of our favorite bartenders and spirits professional to visit our BTI Sensory Lab with a mission to find the 2022 Best Tasting World Whisk(e)y in a Highball from a field of competing brands. Not only were these classic long drinks delicious, but the winning whiskies truly represent a diversity of global flavors and styles. Keeping things fair as well as straightforward, each blind-tasted Highball was made with the same recipe: 2 ounces of each brand’s whiskey mixed with 4 ounces of chilled Topo Chico with each panelist provided a side of clear ice and lemon wedges to apply at their discretion.
With summer in full swing, there’s nothing like an ice-cold glass filled with your favorite sweet nectar, and in our case it must be Agave-based this time of year. Our brave panels of experts evaluated over 90 products to help you narrow down your own must-have list, and then our top-tier Bartenders and Beverage Program Directors crowned the winners of our Margarita Cocktail Competition, so let’s get to it!
Sun’s out, Rum’s out. Something about that warm breeze gets our hands reaching for a tropical beverage, and we all know Rum is the anchor to that refreshing ship. Not only did our panelists run through nearly 100 offerings, but they also awarded the winners of our annual Daiquiri competition. Plus: Beverage Testing Institute showed up strong at Chicago Rum Fest and helped crown the People’s Choice champion. We don’t know about you, but we’re already thirsty for the results, so here they are!
Sun’s out, stems out! Tis the season for patio parties, porch hangs, and picnics—none of which are complete without a chilled glass of wine in hand. We’re already thirsty just thinking about it (and we bet you are, too), so here are our experts’ picks for sunny sips.
While we know you have your go-to Vodka for Cosmopolitans
and your beloved Gin for Martinis, the Tastings team believes that there is
always room to improve on a classic, and this year’s top champions in each
category just might have you switching up your happy hour routine...
There’s nothing that complements springtime weather (and
gets us excited for summer) quite like a gin cocktail. We had an excellent
showing this year, but here are our top faves to meet all your boozy botanical
needs.
Whether it’s a seltzer, a hard kombucha, or a malt-based cocktail, these bubbling beauties are a one stop shop for easy, delicious drinking.
Nothing lifts our spirits like sipping on something that’s tasty AND thoughtful. Whether it’s organic sourcing, community support, or health-focused practices, these are our standouts from the Conscious Spirits reviews.
While thrifty shopping is crucial to our everyday wind-down wine, it’s just as crucial to siphon off some of those savings to put towards some spendy stunners! If you don’t have a special occasion on the calendar, you might want to consider penciling one in so that you can celebrate with these bottles in style.
Traveling the world through wine doesn’t have to drain your whole paycheck! We sipped and swirled offerings from across the globe and have assembled the standout stunners that provide top-tier quality at wallet-friendly prices.
Originally created as solutions to phylloxera (a catastrophic grapevine pest), hybrids are grapes that are bred from existing varietals (FYI these are not GMOs). Many come to us from either France or the minds at Cornell University and University of Minnesota, and they’re often cold-hardy and disease-resistant which means they’re coming to a wine glass near you sooner rather than later.
This year, BTI evaluated a myriad of whiskies from all around the globe. Here are the standouts and the first perfect score in nearly a decade.
Summer sun sure does make us thirsty, which is why the Tastings.com team has whipped up a few delicious quenchers for you to sip and share.
And the pairings are easy.
Fresh cane juice or molasses? Pot or column distilled? Aged a little or a lot or not at all? In case you haven’t checked into the rum category lately, there’s lots to catch up on, and we’re here to tell you that there is, in fact, a rum for everyone.
The sacred agave plant is at the heart of Mexico’s history, and its delicious distillate commands respect with every sip. Scroll through to learn a little more about summer’s favorite swig and find our top picks from this year’s agave spirit reviews.
With over 10,000 varieties of apples, there’s a lot of room for variation in your favorite fizzy ferments. We’ll get into some fun facts on these fabulous fruits, and we’ll share some of our recent favorite pours as well!
Whether you prefer an olive or a lemon twist as a garnish, we’ve got you covered when it comes to your martini’s most important ingredient: the gin.
The New York Wine Classic is the largest annual event honoring the very best wines the state has to offer, and Beverage Testing Institute was proud to partner with the New York Wine and Grape Foundation to taste through the 607 entries from 96 different wineries in order to showcase these standouts from the Excelsior state.
The Cosmopolitan is a cocktail that never goes out of style, so it’s always important to check back in with your base spirits to make sure your pretty pink drink is shining as bright as it can. Our team of judges sipped through glass after glass and found their four fave cosmo-ready vodkas, and we’re sharing them with you!
A lot goes on behind the scenes before a final beautiful bottle makes it to the shelves, and we’ve narrowed down this year’s best design submissions!
Quarantinis have been the lifeline for many of us throughout the pandemic, but sometimes you want a sessionable beverage that won’t make you late for your Zoom meeting the next morning. Here you’ll find some of our favorite cocktailing options that have all of the fun and none of the hangover.
Love a little licorice in your liquor? This traditional Levantine beverage offers crisp, lovely flavors with a strong historic backbone and will be sure to serve your licorice longings.
After reviewing thousands of wines, beers, and spirits this year, Beverage Testing Institute is proud to present the 2020 Best of Year award winners! These products, representing the best in their categories, were evaluated blind by panels of trade buyers and category experts, generating reviews that have proven to be the most trustworthy and consistent in the industry.
We took the trouble of rounding up this year’s most excellent offerings. Inside our guide you’ll find the best of the best in each category we tasted, the best bangs for your hard-earned buck, and a few spendy stunners so you can treat yourself for making it through 2020.
Ferment any fruit, distill as you wish, and you’ve got yourself a brandy! Don’t have a still in your garage/bathtub? Scroll through these stunners to find your next favorite fruit-based friend.
Whether you call it a liqueur or a cordial, you’re sure to love this selection of cocktail gems. Ranging from bright and bitter to fruity and creamy, this year’s picks are sure to shine in your next drink recipe.
With the change of seasons comes the thirst for rich, golden drams. We tasted over 100 great grain-based offerings to determine your next whiskey picks!
A glass of white wine is great any time of year, but pair it with some sunshine and you’ve got yourself a dream come true! We’ve rounded up some of this year’s domestic sippable stunners to make every al fresco meal a memorable one.
There’s just enough summer left to enjoy a few more bright, citrusy cocktails, and we assembled a panel of top tier daiquiri palates to find the best rums to make the most of the waning sipping season.
Do you love gin and are thirsty for more? Are you a die-hard brown spirits fan that needs a push to the botanically influenced side of the spirits world? Barreled gins are the answer to the question you never knew needed asking, and these five are some of our favorites!
In a world where every decision-making dollar counts, why not put your money where your values are? Whether bettering the environment, the community, or both, everything tastes better when ethics are part of the recipe, and these are some of our favorite conscious concoctions!
With the long-awaited arrival of sunny days comes the inevitable craving for sparkling sippers, and with so many options available, how can a person choose? Relax! We’ve done the seltzer-sifting for you, and we’ve found the best bubbles to keep on-hand.
As we hunker down at home, gazing nostalgically at our coaster collections from our favorite bars (rest assured, they miss us too), we can use this quaran-time to elevate our personal refreshment repertoires. With high-quality, high-value, and high-versatility offerings, your stay-at-homebar can keep you creatively quenched until the curve is completely flattened.
We’re three months into 2020 and winter is making brunch cocktails as necessary as ever, so to help you make the right decisions at your next encounter with a make-your-own Bloody Mary bar, we’ve found the finest vodkas for before-noon drinking. Much like your brunch buffet, our list has something for everyone.
There’s something special about a Moscow Mule. It’s a simple enough drink--vodka, ginger beer, lime, and mint--but drinking one just feels…right. Maybe it’s the ritual of the gleaming copper cup or the fresh scent of the mint as you take your first sip. Whatever it is, it’s heaven in a glass, and a full year after our last Moscow Mule tasting, we’re back with a whole new lineup of outstanding vodka offerings to try.
In its own category of alcoholic beverage, this combination of honey, water, and yeast is a tasty treat that’s been flying under the radar of modern imbibing—until now. Humankind’s oldest boozy beverage (dating back to 7000 BC!) is seeing a rise in popularity, and we’re here to give you everything you need to know before you grab a goblet.
Everyone has their own personal favorite style of whiskey, and North America has something for everyone. Whether you prefer the sweetness of Canadian whiskey, the spicy bite of American Rye, or the smooth sipping of real Kentucky Bourbon, the continent has it all. As great as having that variety is, it can make figuring out which whiskey you should pour in your drink an overwhelming task. Tastings.com has taken care of that task for you by testing dozens of whiskies to determine which ones mix best in two classic drinks: the Manhattan and the Sazerac. First up: the Manhattan.
A test so nice we did it twice – how else can you determine the best whiskies and waters for a highball cocktail unless you test both separately? Here’s how it worked: we took one control whisky and made 19 cocktails with 19 different waters, then we took a control water and did the same thing with over two dozen different whiskies to find out the best possible ingredients for this simple, classic beverage. Be sure to check out the full list of whiskies and waters we tested as well, because while we could only name a few winners in this particular matchup, we still did the hard work of reviewing each one. Who knows, your new favorite drink could be waiting there for you to discover!
We know you come here for honest, expert ratings of alcoholic beverages, so rating water probably seems like a waste of time, right? Absolutely not. Throughout history, water was the original mixer. No respectable Roman would drink unwatered wine, and no pirate or sailor would drink straight rum without adding water to create grog. Even when drinking whisky neat, connoisseurs often add several drops of water to open up the flavors. Whisky and water is a timeless combination, so it’s our duty to inform you which water makes the perfect highball cocktail.
It’s warming up, and when it comes to a crisp, refreshing beverage, light beer and white wine don’t always cut it. Not long ago, you’d have to get up from your lawn chair to fix yourself a gin and tonic, or the perfect margarita, but recently the advent of hard sodas and waters gives summer drinkers new options that can be grabbed straight from the cooler. And despite the name, hard sodas aren’t only for the young at heart and young of palate - this new generation of infused drinks is anything but kid stuff.
With hundreds of big name and artisan gins out there, it’s hard to choose the right base for a show-stopping martini. Luckily, Tastings.com has assembled an all star team from the finest cocktail bars in the country to guide you. Our expert judges rate the year’s best botanicals so you can mix the perfect martini for any occasion. The recipe is simple but the flavors are complex: 2.25 ounces of gin and .75 ounces of vermouth - sorry Mr. Bond, no vodka here.
Ever wanted to know the best whiskey to use in a Manhattan? Our World Cocktail Championships pit top brands against each other to determine which make the best cocktails. Here we lay out the whiskies that make the most delicious Manhattans and the vermouths that will make your cocktail-loving heart stir.
With kaleidoscopic fall foliage in full display, it’s time to mix up these 4 cocktails that will leaf a smile on your face.
The whole world is catching on to Scotch whisky’s amazing quality and delicious taste. The result is a depletion of mature stock at many distilleries. Since age-stated whisky cannot legally contain any whisky younger than the age listed on the label, a risk is presented to the sustainability of age-stated whisky. One of the Scotch industry’s solutions has been to rely more heavily on no age statement (NAS) whiskies. These are marriages of many different whiskies, from very young to very old, that can have a profoundly delightful impact on your taste buds. Here we show you why you should eschew ageism and put stock in flavor over age when enjoying Scotch whisky.
This month we tasted piles of ciders with layers of complexity. Entries from both home and abroad did not disappoint and familiar names once again dazzled our taste buds. The showing was far from the expected and reinvigorated our love of cider. Check out the tried and tru and and the eye-openers showing that traditional dry cider is for everyone.
South Africa offers wines for every palate. From their flagship Chenin Blanc and Pinotage to crisp Colombar and internationally beloved Bordeaux-style blends, there’s a South African wine for you. Tastings.com brings you through the regions and grapes of South Africa. Discover your favorite with our handy guide.
Roasty and toasty, stouts and porters are no longer just the workingman’s beverage— they run the gamut from historic and dry to sweet and flavored, and from session brews to barrel-aged warmers. Featured here are some of the best we have tasted for the winter months, ready for your exploration.
We share all the tools you need to order, discuss, sip, and savor France’s most famous brandy.
Liqueurs are the perfect, versatile boozy gift. Neat or on the rocks? Sure. Mixed in classic cocktails? Even better! A simple and festive spritz? They’re the perfect party tipple. Tastings.com shares our candied, herbal, bittter-sweet and creamy liqueur picks for every type of holiday imbiber.
While most everyone in Napa and Sonoma has been affected by the recent wildfires in some way or another, damage isn’t widespread. The 2017 crop will make wine as spectacular as ever, and the best part? Tasting rooms are open and the wine is flowing! In fact, the biggest threat to Napa and Sonoma’s wine industry is the misperception that the fires devastated the region. The reality is that the Napa and Sonoma are thriving and their tasting rooms are open! Tastings.com shares three award-winning Napa wines to buy now.
Oak is no joke! Barrel aging can be used on just about any alcoholic beverage you can think of. Ever since oak replaced heavy, fragile clay amphorae as transportation vessels for wine around the age of the Roman Empire, its magnificent effects on beverages has been carefully studied and celebrated. Soak up the oak knowledge with Tastings.com.
Just like your autumn wardrobe autumn beer is best when laden with toasty layers… of delicious roasted malt flavor. Tastings.com delivers the run-down on the best beers to drink this fall and details 4 classic fall beer styles.
Chilean wines are HOT! Our recent review of Chilean wines revealed big flavor and huge value in these smoky, intriguing wines. Immerse yourself in Chilean wine experiences with Tastings.com.
The coolest underdogs of wine are all-American. Hybrid wines are popping up in every corner of the USA. These are wines made from grape varieties that are a result of cross-breeding hearty indigenous American grapes with the familiar European varieties. As a result of cross-breeding these grapes are extra-resistant to disease and extra-tasty. Expect explosive fruit flavors with a unique floral and rustic aroma. Let Tastings.com introduce you to juicy hybrid wines that will leave you feeling foxy.
Sharpen up your sake skills with the help of Tastings.com. We’ll teach you how to decode sake lingo, choose the sake that’s right for you, and even give you serving tips. Use Tastings.com to discover the world of Japanese Sake.
This month we tasted through the best agave sprits and chatted with leading producers to bring you the most up-to-date details on what’s trending in tequila and mezcal. Use our tips to find your new favorite spirit of Mexico!
We’ve outlined six unique ways to use the concentrated flavors of bitters in the kitchen and the bar- steering away from the typical cocktail flavoring application. From hair-of-the-dogs to gourmet cooking, we show you how to incorporate bitters into your everyday routines.
Evade the heat with refreshing summer wheats. We demystify wheat beer styles from trendy sour Berliners to classic Hefeweizens. Learn the history, brewing methods, and flavor profiles of the 5 styles you need to know.
Look back on the good times had at last year’s Tales of the Cocktail and mark your calendar for this year’s event in New Orleans this July.
On Saturday April 8th, some of the biggest players in the Rum industry gathered to show off their latest and greatest sugarcane distillates at Chicago’s annual Midwest Rumfest. Micro and Boutique rums were the stars of the show and Tastings.com rated the best of them for you!
Spend a day tasting daiquiris? It’s a tough job, but somebody’s got to do it! Check out what our judges picked as the 2017 World Cocktail Championships Best Daiquiris!
Impress your guests! Learn the Art and Science of Creating and Pairing Savory Cocktails.
Juicy and lush fruit flavors make Argentine wines the perfect choice for carnivorous pairings that tango on your palate.
As a part of our 2016 trade initiative with Japan, our sales and marketing specialist Jaclyn Beazley toured around Tokyo, Kobe and Osaka in March. The month, which is typically wet and rainy, had a few sunny days she took advantage of discover all she could about Japanese Sake, Whiskey and even Wine!
Is there anything more refreshing than a cold lemonade on a sizzling summer day? You bet there is: a chilled sour beer is the grown up version of lemonade. Mouth watering tartness, food-friendliness, and naturally low ABV that makes it easy to have more than one. We’ve been tasting some of the best sour beers out there, and now we want to share some of our favorites with you, just in time for the dog days of summer.
See how the nation’s top bartenders use mixers and bitters from our 23rd International Review of Spirits to craft delicious cocktails. Featuring: Owl’s Brew Wicked Green Tea, Era Bitters, and Yogi’s Bloody Mary Mix.
The Bacardi–More than a Tour, An Experience
Tastings lifestyle correspondent Camilla Llano visited the Bacardi ’Cathedral of Rum’ in Puerto Rico and liked what she found.
You wouldn’t know it, but the tiny island of Barbados is a dreamer’s paradise. Because its warmth, charm, and sophisticated people help make everyone’s dream come true. Tucked away on the northern tip in St. Lucy Parish, Mount Gay Rum has granted many a wish to everyone connected with it.
Meet craft spirits maker, Mhairi Voelsgen. Her broVo spirits company in Seattle is revered by bartenders for its exceptional liqueur, vermouth and amaro. Catapulting itself into Michelin-rated restaurant cocktails, Mhairi’s brand excels with its refined recipe, batch after batch. Take it from the master herself and the lessons she gathered over the years from bartenders.
Have you ever wanted to treat your friends to a crab boil but it seems too complicated? We can show you how to create a crab boil in 7 easy steps! We can show you how to please your eyes and your stomach at the same time… rain or shine.
Reviews at Tastings take a critical approach and mandatorily shut down any biases the judges have towards a product because of the controlled environment of the tasting room and blind samples.
Beer is an agricultural product beginning on a farm and ending in a glass. At its simplest, beer is a recipe of water, malt, hops and yeast. Brewing may be a simple process, but can be made very complicated with the application of scientific techniques to perfectly control the process.
Tastings.com recently sat down with award-winning Chicago mixologist and spirited entrepreneur Adam Seger to talk about the ‘Garden to Glass’ movement sweeping the world of spirits and cocktails. As a Certified Culinary Professional (CCP), Adam offered an inside look at how the movement is zeroing in on freshness and seasonality and convincing consumers to drink like they eat.