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Drinks After Dark

Archive for the ‘Gin’ Category

October 31st, 2008

Virtual Cocktail Chatter

Each Thursday, fancy mixologists, cocktail geeks and bartenders gather in a chat room and geek out over cocktails. They create new recipes, try and out-do one another and pretty much drink all night. All in all, it’s a pretty fantastic time.
I know this is a day late, but Kaiser Penguin had the wrap up from […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 0 comments

October 9th, 2008

Old Wive’s Tale: A Hot Toddy will cure a cold

I’m fighting a nasty cold at the moment, and as soon as people hear me speak, they figure it out pretty quickly and then tell me to go curl up and create myself one of many Old Wive’s Tales to cure the common cold.

So, what are these ‘cures’? They mostly centre around the Hot […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 21 comments

October 4th, 2008

Honey-inspired cocktails

Life got a little sweeter for the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel in Vancouver recently. More than 300 lbs of honey was harvested from the hotel’s beehives near the end of August. The Fairmont has it’s own herb garden on the 3rd floor where many of the herbs and vegetables are grown for the restaurant.

In early June, […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 1 comment

September 28th, 2008

Simply D’vine

G’vine Gin really is simply d’vine.

Made in Cognac, France, using the green grape flower, which only blooms for two weeks in June. This is an ultra-premium gin, bridging the gap between traditional dry gin and a flavoured vodka, by softening the flavour of traditional gin because of the grape flower.
There’s touches, or notes, of nine […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 0 comments

July 17th, 2008

Top 10 Summer Cocktails

Summer is a time of patios, sunshine and hanging out with friends, and what better way to do that but with a lovely cocktail in hand?
Here are Drinks After Dark’s picks for the top 10 summer cocktails.
#10: Daiquiri - There are several versions of the Daiquiri, but those that gained international fame are the […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 0 comments

July 14th, 2008

Some Like it Hot: Classic Gin and Tonic

Brewha-ha is hosting this month’s theme day, Some Like It Hot. This month’s  theme is all about the Summer BBQ, and what better way to enjoy a summer BBQ other than with the quintessential summer drink, the classic Gin and Tonic?
This cocktail was introduced by the army of the British East India Company in India.
Tonic […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 3 comments

May 30th, 2008

Summer Drinks: New Amsterdam Gin

We’ve had a brief respite of sun and warm weather in Vancouver, and I’m so very excited. I’m really in my element when the sun comes out. If I had my druthers, I’d follow the sun all year round.
When the sun comes out, I go looking for a warm weather drink. Sometimes, I go […]

By Colleen Coplick -- 1 comment