I’ve been hearing a lot of rumblings about cocktails served in ice balls as well as frozen mixer balls served with shots of liquor, so I decided to give it a try at home! For our first ball, we’re serving a classic Aviation in an ice ball …
The Sazerac is New Orlean’s official cocktail and is one of the oldest known American cocktails. Made with just a few ingredients, this drink is very liquor forward, with a strong licorice fragrance from the absinthe rinse. I used regular sugar for my recipe, but …
Hope you enjoyed Super Bowl weekend! To help digest the extra chicken wings and beer, today’s cocktail is a Sidecar, a classic drink that has been around since WWI and is literally named after the motorcycle attachment. It’s a boozy orange drink that can be …
Meet Jack Rose, a simple but flavorful drink that can be enjoyed throughout the year. The only liquor in the drink is applejack, which is a distilled liquor made from apples and used to be a byproduct of making apple cider in the 1600s. Since applejack …
With most of us affected by the “bomb cyclone” a few weeks ago, 2018 is off to a frigid start. Thankfully, there’s a drink that has been around for hundreds of years to help warm you from the inside-out and as an added bonus, it …
Welcome to 2018! It’s been a busy couple of months with moving to D.C. and spending time with family for the holidays, but House of Mary is back in full swing with a classic drink that’s perfect for using up any leftover champagne from New …
Variations of a Tom Collins have existed for more than 200 years and it’s no surprise that this simple, but refreshing fizzy lemonade drink has remained popular until now. The Tom Collins is on my regular roster of summer drinks and is super quick to …
Like an Old Fashioned, a classic Manhattan is another spirit-forward classic cocktail that only takes a couple of ingredients to make, but is hard to get just right. Rather than getting the sweetness from simple syrup or a sugar cube, Manhattans get their sweetness and …
When the weather matches the drink, you know it’s fate. The Dark and Stormy is another classic cocktail that’s made with dark rum, ginger beer, and lime. This drink is super easy to make and can be easily adjusted to your taste. Instead of regular …
To continue Rum Week 2017, we’ll be making a caipirinha (pronounced kai-pee-reen-ya), which is Brazil’s national cocktail. This simple but potent drink is made with cachaça (pronounced ka-shah-suh), lime, and sugar. Cachaça is a clear rum made from fermented sugar cane juice and has a unique …