Cocktailmancy

Cocktailmancy - [kok-teylˌmænsi] the dark art of raising long dead spirits and mixing them into refreshing beverages.

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Sun-Steeped Sumac Ice Tea Cocktails: 1 Large Blooms Of Wild Sumac 2oz Dillon's Small Batch Distillers 1oz Nude Bee Pumpkin Honey 1oz Cottage Spring Water 1 Wild Fruit Garnish 1 Dash Bitters Place: Sumac and spring water in a mason jar, let sit in strong sunlight until steeped to deep rose yellow. Reduce: Pumpkin honey and water in 1:1 ratio until fully dissolved. Build: Add rose gin & pumpkin simple syrup to rocks glass, dash one bitters to taste, garnish with wild local fruit. Taste: Deeply refreshing with light yet complex notes of sweet and bitter.

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Bottles worth owning - Balcones Baby Blue Corn Whiskey.

#balconeswhiskey #whiskey #cocktails

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Get more out of your moonshine! We are obsessed with all the uses for @JJMidnightMoon fruit'n'shine!

Like Jamaican Black Cake, there is something noble about floating fresh fruit in a mountain of booze, crossing your arms and waiting for your life to get better. Which is why Midnight's Moon's white lightning is so awesome, they had bail the fruit into your jar for you!  All the recipes are here. 

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Anyone know how this was done? 

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If you're planning to build a table, make sure it has room in it for a bar. Via @HQvB and the good folks at @Uline.

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The Bloody Maria 

As Canadians we take great pride our tomato based cocktails and hangover cures. They are as Canadian as embracing free healthcare or wrinkling your nose when someone say "melting pot culture". 

Which is why we're shocked this idea took so long to percolate to the surface.

Toronto based Brandon Bannon has taken the fresh flavours of a city awash in taco-pop-ups and mixed it with a Niagara region grape based vodka and created a cocktail with colours Frida Kahlo would be proud to call her own. 

Meet The Bloody Maria, the cure all for an international hangover: 

Tomato

Cilantro

Garlic

Red Onion

2 oz Dillon's Small Batch Distillers Method 95 Vodka

1 Dash Balsamic Vinegar

3 Shakes Worcestershire Sauce

3 Slices of Lemon

3 Slices of Cucumber

Rimmed with a Cayenne Pepper Salt

Muddled Pico de Gallo (tomato, cilantro, garlic, red onion) into a separate bowl and let rest. Rim a mason or wide mouth glass with equal parts; cayenne pepper, black pepper, coarse salt, and paprika.  

Build cocktail and garnish with fresh cucumber and lemon and stir gently. 

Then simply enjoy, because if drinking a garden can't cure what ails you, your probability already dead.  FUN FACT: Clamato is far more popular in Canada and Mexico than in the United States. 

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How did you celebrate your playing of GTA V?  This is how I spent mine.  It was a face full of celebration.

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Always trust the Rat Pack....

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Bottle Envy 

Many regard Westvleteren as the worlds best beer.

Even if it's not, it's still become one of the most talk worthy and hard to acquire Trappist's in the world. 

Just holding a bottle makes you feel special, like your part of a secret club, which of course is why a friend lined up in the blistering Canadian cold for two days in a row for 4 hours every morning just to get a case. 

Find out more about Westvleteren with Roman Mars and 99% Invisible. Then grab some and send us a bottle, we'll make it worth your while. 

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Some of our favourite people are in this photo mixing up custom cocktails at #BevLab:

Maciej Jasiobedzki - @wchwd - Front / Left 

Jano Badovinac - *swoon* - Front / Right

Anne Cayer - @annecayer - Back / Left

What an amazing evening and a great idea beverage hacking is - we strongly recommend you find out about #BevLab if your in Toronto. 

Via viville:

Exploring their own savoury #beverages @iandjideations #bevlab #design / on Instagram http://bit.ly/14yDP3X

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Let's abuse that top shelf! 

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A quick PSA for the fall season. 

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Smashed Cherry Shrub Cocktail 

Shrubs have become a staple around the Cocktailmancy table this summer. Simple to make and packed with vibrant fruit flavours, they are the most unique extender you can add to your wet bar. 

For this classy cocktail we borrowed a page from Oliver Stern of The Toronto Temperance Society. This year Oliver was a finalist in the Grey Goose Pour Masters with his cocktail "MariLou". 

For our home version we wanted to bump up the cherry flavor, sweeten the citrus notes and add a bit of a savoury element. The results, which fused the natural flavors in Grey Goose Cherry Noir with hints of black pepper and high quality balsamic, resulted in a coupe designed for savouring. 

To make your very own Double Noir - just follow the recipe below: 

Double Noir 

1oz Grey Goose Cherry Noir

0.5oz Grand Marnier

0.5oz  Dolin Dry Vermouth

0.5oz Black Pepper Cherry Balsamic Shrub   

Simply stir all ingredients in a tumbler over ice. As soon as your tumbler begins to frost, strain ingredients into a coupe and garnish with lemon zest. 

*** For step by step directions on how to make your own shrubs, check out our March post for details.  ***

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How exciting is this! Meet BevLab the maker, hacker, science beverage workshop in Toronto. 

We'll be crashing their class this Friday to get our cocktail on. The best part, our friend is looking to hack his Soda Stream to make carbonated Manhattans! 

It's a popup so your time is limited and classes do fill up quick - I'd recommend getting booked in sooner rather than later. 

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Love Tequila? Live In Toronto? 

Why not join Tromba for the Guinness Book attempt for the largest tequila tasting ever?

We can't see a reason not to! 

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Hence forth this is the only way to announce that your bar has Molson Stock Ale. 

Down market and delicious. This has been the beer of surly old men across Canada for most of Molson's history and we can't think of any better way to celebrate it than with this cheery sailor.

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We've got more cocktails posts coming soon but in the meantime - Where is this clip from?  

**Update - The film in question is North By North West, and the beverage in question is Campari, and the strange colour is from the re-colouring of a black and white classic, Campari is of course a much brighter hue of hot hot pink. **