Tag: cocktails

Before the holiday hullabaloo set in, my husband and I spent a lovely, relaxing weekend at West Baden Springs Hotel in West Baden Springs, Ind. Its fantastic domed atrium, shown above, was called “the Eighth Wonder of the World” when…

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…

I am always on the lookout for delicious cocktails, particularly delicious bourbon cocktails, and especially delicious bourbon cocktails that are easy to make. I found the recipe for this one, which meets all my criteria, in Michael Dietsch’s “Cocktail 101” column on the blog…

If you are still looking for the perfect turkey for Thanksgiving, well, I can’t help you. But I can offer this delicious Manhattan made with Wild Turkey. This recipe – called a “perfect” Manhattan because it uses equal amounts of both sweet and dry…

If there is anything better in the fall than apple cider, it’s apple cider with bourbon in it. That’s what I mixed up last night courtesy of a recipe I found at Creative Culinary. This cocktail also includes a shot of ginger…

In this trying election season, I finally have a cause I can get behind wholeheartedly: the Cocktail Party. Leave it to the folks at Maker’s Mark to find us all some common ground. If you’re a Maker’s Mark ambassador, you…

The cocktail bar – even the fantastically inventive kind – is unlikely to reach the heights of a top restaurant. Part of its appeal is also its fatal weakness: the more you taste, the less well you taste. “Don’t Guzzle…

The winner of “Not Your Pink Drink” – the Bourbon Women Association’s first-ever cocktail contest – was decided today at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival in Bardstown. The two finalists – amateur division finalist Karen Rego’s High-Doll and professional division finalist…

Over the weekend I attended a party where Tim Laird, Brown-Forman’s “CEO” (Chief Entertaining Officer), was slinging the drinks, and I experienced one of the most eye-opening (palate-awakening?) moments of my bourbon-drinking life: I had bourbon and red wine. In…