Tag: Bourbon Barrel Foods

Baking with bourbon: Bourbon Vanilla Extract

If you, like me, will be doing some holiday baking this weekend, consider adding an extra dimension of flavor to your cookies, breads and cakes with Bourbon-Madagascar Vanilla Extract from Bourbon Barrel Foods ($10/100ml, $35/16oz). Aged in used bourbon barrels, it boosts…

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Vanilla Bean-Bourbon Champagne Cocktail

This festive cocktail was created by Marianne Barnes, then-master taster at Brown-Forman, for a bourbon dinner at Varanese in Louisville. I liked it so much I asked for the recipe. While Marianne’s instructions called for simple syrup and Woodford Reserve barrel-aged…

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Even more bourbon-related gift ideas!

As promised, here are more gift ideas for the bourbon lovers on your list. Mini bottles of bourbon make great stocking stuffers. Most are priced around $6. The selection above can be found at Party Mart. Candleberry’s Kentucky Bourbon-scented candles will fill…

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Whoa! That’s one fancy drink

To mark the 75th year that the mint julep has been the official drink of the Kentucky Derby, Woodford Reserve – the official bourbon of the Kentucky Derby – is offering 75 special (read: pricey!) mint julep cups for sale. Through…

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Shop. Find. Buy.

Still shopping for that fine-food-and-drink lover on your list? The folks at Find. Eat. Drink asked top chefs, bartenders and sommeliers for suggestions and wrapped them all up in their 2011 Holiday Gift Guide. Items range from limited-edition spirits to raw honey to special…

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