Bottles and Bites

This fresh take on a spritz is as tasty as it is refreshing. Enjoy this apéritif at brunch or in the early evening to prime your palate for the meal to come. Here’s how to make it: Fill your glass with 3 oz Prosecco Add 2 oz St. George Bruto Americano Add juice from half of an orange (optional) Top with 1 oz soda water Stir lightly and garnish with an orange slice

Ingredients Juice from one lime 1 ounce bourbon (we used Four Roses) Splash of black cherry soda (we used Boylan) Cocktail cherries (we used Egbert's) Instructions In a low ball glass add ice, lime juice, bourbon, and stir. Top with cherry soda. Add 3-4 dried cherries onto a cocktail pick and serve off the side of the cocktail glass.

Whether you are a drinker of whiskey, gin, vodka, or rum, there is a suitable mixer that can both stretch the lifespan of your spirit as well as enhance the taste. Most commonly, drinkers use mixers to dilute the harsh burn of strong spirits. This will also lower the alcohol by volume and allow a person to drink more. While cocktails are making a comeback, mixers have regained superior importance. When you consider the fact that your mixer can account for anywhere from 25%-75% of your drink, it is pivotal that the mixer is of good quality. Here’s a look...

With the advance of well-crafted cocktails, it only makes sense that premium mixers would become just as much a priority as the liquor in the cocktails. Luckily for cocktail aficionados and amateurs alike, the craft cocktail boom has made premium, unique mixers for your home bar more readily available. Premium craft mixers are essential for maintaining the quality of craft cocktails. As with most things in life, you get what you pay for, and that is especially true in the mixer aisle. The cheap mixers and sodas that crowd supermarket shelves are filled with synthetic sweeteners and artificial ingredients that...