INTERESTING FACTS & COCKTAILS

Dry Martini
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Martini cocktail

The Martini cocktail is one of the great mixed drinks at the bar. It has been mixed for more than 100 years. It is difficult to say exactly when the Martini cocktail was created. It must have been sometime in the second half of the 19th century and...
Cocktail
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Breakfast Martini

The Breakfast Martini is quite rightly one of the contemporary classics and is a typical representative of gin cocktails. It also frequently appears in the list of the 100 most popular drinks. Salvatore Calabrese came up with the breakfast idea in 1996. The man was already...
Long drink with rum
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Dark and Stormy

For some years now, the Moscow Mule has been one of the most frequently ordered long drinks in bars and restaurants alongside the gin and tonic. The Moscow Mule has managed to arouse widespread interest in ginger beer. Many producers are now vying for the favour of bartenders and guests. Yet the spicy ginger lemonade is not at all like the vodka drink from the 1940s...
Rum cocktail with sherry
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Quarter Deck Cocktail

Many rum cocktails are closely associated with seafaring. One of them is the Quarter Deck cocktail, first mentioned in 1929. Its origins can be traced back to the 18th century. Hardly any other drink illustrates...
Rum cocktail
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Daiquiri cocktail

Although the basic structure of the Daiquiri is the simplest of all rum cocktails, the cocktail will remain the king of this category for all time. With just three ingredients, it has managed to impress for more than 100 years. Nothing could be closer...
Rum assortment
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The history of rum

The history of rum is a good 500 years old. Rum is now rightly one of the most popular spirits in any good cocktail bar. Many well-known and successful cocktails are mixed with the sugar distillate and for some years now it has been consumed exclusively neat by some connoisseurs. But where exactly is the origin of rum, who...
Cane sugar plants
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Rhum Agricole

It is difficult to categorise rum. At best, geographical origin can vaguely help to distinguish the different styles or to group several rums into one category. One rhum, however, makes this sorting easy for us. The Rhum Agricole. It demands very explicit specifications from the rum makers...
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French 75 Cocktail

The French 75 is a cocktail with a fascinating history and an equally resounding flavour. This iconic drink was created a few years after the First World War. The name "French 75" comes from a French field gun...
Bourbon cocktail
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Boulevardier Cocktail

The Boulevardier cocktail is the little brother of the Negroni cocktail. Over the past 20 years, as the Negroni has gained a significant place among the most important classics, the Boulevardier cocktail has also benefited...
Scotch Cocktail
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Blood and Sand

The Blood and Sand is a timeless classic among whisky cocktails that will delight both experienced Scotch lovers and cocktail novices alike. Originally created in the 1920s, this drink was initially mixed with blended Scotch. But in the course of...
Whisky cocktail
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Whiskey Sour Cocktail

One of the oldest drinks at the bar is the whiskey sour. The Whiskey Sour was already listed in the first cocktail book in history from 1862. When the author Jerry Thomas, alias Professor Cocktail, published the cocktail in his book "How to mix Drinks", it was...
Nikka Whisky
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Japanese whisky

When Scotch whisky conquered the world in the second half of the 19th century, its success naturally aroused desires and other nations also wanted to distil their whisky. First and foremost the Japanese. Two men played a special role in this endeavour and are responsible for the history of Japanese whisky...
Dalmore, Nikka
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Whisky categories

What types of whisky are there? Most whiskies are roughly categorised according to their origin. Of course, there are also major differences between two whiskies from Scotland, for example. But to get an overview, it makes sense to categorise them by country. The spelling of the...
Dalmore 18 years
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Production of single malt

In the production of Scotch whisky, i.e. the whiskies that come from Scotland and are matured there, there are basically two different categories. The first is grain whisky and the second is malt whisky. If both types of whisky are mixed together, blended Scotch is created. If malt or grain whisky...
Jörg Meyer's Drink
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Gin Basil Smash

It was only in 2008 that Jörg Meyer from Le Lion in Hamburg created his legendary drink Gin Basil Smash. Today it is already one of the contemporary classics around the world. The drink is a further development of the cocktail category of smashes. These are...
Legendary Negroni cocktail
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Negroni

The Negroni has been one of the great classics for many years. The ingenious thing about this drink is that it is relatively easy to mix at home. The three-part drink, which is now 100 years old, goes back to an Italian playboy and count. For a good 200 years, people have loved...
History of gin - Your host Marc
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The history of gin

Spirits were already being produced on a large scale in the Netherlands in the 16th century. And when the lively trade with the East Indies picked up speed in the same period, it was no longer a long way to spirits and liqueurs, which were...
Gin Tasting The World
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Gin production

In most cases, neutral alcohol is used in the production of gin. This usually has a convincing strength of 96 % alc. It is often obtained from grain. However, it can be produced from all agricultural products. Accordingly, there are also gins...
Sylvius Gin
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The gin categories

A brief overview of the bewildering variety of gin categories. We are not aiming for completeness. We are simply trying to present the most important varieties of gin...

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