February 2022

Love is in the air with the “proper improper” Brockmans Gin.  

Brockmans offers up two seductive cocktails that ring with romance in both taste and color.  Crafted with dark berries and noble traditions, Brockmans Gin mixes perfectly with beetroot juice in the Purple Spring cocktail and is a taste of true passion in its Frosé cocktail, both are just in time for Valentine’s Day. 

Brockmans Purple Spring

Ingredients: 

• 1 oz. Brockmans Gin 
• 3/4 oz. beetroot juice 
• 4 oz. wild berry cider 

Preparation: Combine gin and beetroot juice in shaker with ice. Strain into a stemmed Copa glass filled with ice. Top with wild berry cider and give a gentle stir. Garnish with a very thin slice of dehydrated beetroot and edible flowers.  

Brockmans  Frosé

Ingredients: 

• 1 oz. Brockmans Gin 
• 1/2 oz. rose liqueur 
• 2 oz. sweet rosé wine 
• Freshly squeezed lemon juice 

Preparation: combine gin, rose liqueur, lemon juice and rosé in a shaker with ice. Strain contents into a large stemmed wine glass filled with crushed ice. Alternatively combine all ingredients in a blender with ice. Blend until the ice is crushed and scoop into a large, stemmed wine glass. Garnish with sugar or fresh rose petals.  

About Brockmans Gin 

Brockmans, the ‘Properly Improper’ gin is like no other. Crafted with ‘Dark Berries and Noble Traditions’, it is a revelation of unexpected individual taste for gin enthusiasts and novices alike. It stands proudly alone from other types of gin due to the unique recipe of exquisite botanicals and the patient steeping distillation process. Brockmans’ more traditional notes of gin are combined with a refreshing influence of citrus and aromatic wild blackberries and blueberries, creating an intensely smooth gin taste that is sensual and daringly different. The unrivalled taste of this beautifully crafted gin can be enjoyed simply neat over ice. It is refreshingly different when served with tonic or ginger ale and it opens a whole world of new taste experiences when mixed in gin cocktails. Brockmans is based in the United Kingdom and available throughout the US.

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This Valentine’s Day Two Hearts are better than one with NEFT Vodka’s Two Hearts cocktail made with NEFT ultra-premium, clean vodka and hibiscus ingredients.  

The egg white in the drink creates a lovely frothy top, while the hibiscus water and syrup add a deep red hue and complex flavor profile that pairs fondly with the rich, slightly sweet taste of NEFT Vodka. It’s sure to make hearts swoon.  

Two Hearts

Ingredients: 

• 1 3/4 oz. NEFT Vodka 
• 3/4 oz. Hibiscus Syrup 
• 3/4 oz. lemon juice 
• 1 oz. egg white 
• 2 dashes Hibiscus Flower Water 

Preparation: Vigorously dry shake all ingredients, add ice, and shake again. Double strain with Hawthorne and mesh strainers into a coupe cocktail glass. Garnish with two hearts drawn with hibiscus syrup.

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February 14 is one of the most anticipated days of the year. It’s a day to celebrate love! 

 No worries—you don’t need a significant other to partake in this day. This year, we are fully embracing Galentine’s Day and all it has to offer. It doesn’t need to be about romantic love. It can simply be a holiday to share with your best girlfriends.  

Girls’ night in means you will need cocktails on deck. Of course, Chilled has the best of the best when it comes to pink and Valentine’s Day-inspired cocktails. Whether your besties are tequila lovers or indulge in whiskey, this list has something for everyone.  

Invite your best friends over, make a charcuterie board, and celebrate Galentine’s Day while sipping on one of these cocktails.  

Strawberry Love

Created 

by Mixologist Natalie Migliarini, Beautiful Booze Cocktails 

Ingredients: 

• 3 oz. sparkling rose 
• 1 oz. Four Roses Small Batch
• 1/2 oz. fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 oz. strawberry syrup*

Preparation: Add Four Roses Small Batch, lemon juice and strawberry syrup to a cocktail shaker. Shake then strain into a coupe glass.Top with sparkling rosé wine. Garnish: lemon twist and fresh strawberry. 

*Strawberry Syrup 

 Ingredients: 

• 1 cup water 
• 1 cup sugar 
• 1 cup sliced strawberries

Preparation: Add all ingredients to a medium saucepan. Simmer until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and cool & let strawberries infuse. Strain into a vessel. 

Honny Bunny 

Ingredients:  

• 1 oz. Miso Infused Delord Bas Armagnac 
• 3/4 oz. Grand Marnier 
• 1/2 oz. Busnel Calvados 
• 3/4 oz. Lemon Juice 
• 1 tsp Honey Syrup

Preparation: Shake and pour into a coupe glass.  

Origin: Death & Company, Denver 

Pinkglow®  With White and Dark Rum (serves 4) 

Ingredients & Tools: 

• Pinkglow® pineapple 
• 8 oz. White Rum 
• 2 oz. of Dark Rum 
• Ice Cubes 
• 4 Rock Glasses

Preparation: Cut Pinkglow® in half. Use a sharp knife to peel the pineapple. Cut around the core to make pineapple wedges and discard the core. Cut the wedges into large chunks. Add the pineapple chunks into a blender and blend until smooth to create a juice. Fill the shaker with ice cubes. Pour in white rum and 8 oz of Pinkglow® juice and shake thoroughly. Pour into each rock glass filled with ice cubes. Top each glass with dark rum on the top to create a layer on top of each cocktail. Add a piece of Pinkglow® as a garnish to each (optional) 

Hibiscus Margarita  

Ingredients:  

• 1 1/2 oz. El Tequileño Platinum 
• 2 oz. Sweetened hibiscus juice 
• 1/2 oz. Freshly squeezed lime juice 
• 1/2 oz. Agave syrup 
• Garnish: Hibiscus flower   
• Glassware: Rocks glass 

Preparation: Add all ingredients to a shaker with ice. Shake until ice cold and strain into a rocks glass over cubed ice. Garnish with a Hibiscus flower. 

Beyond the Clouds 

Ingredients:  

• 1 oz. Whiskeysmith Blood Orange 
• 1 oz. Mezcal 
• 1/2 oz. Lemon 
• Barspoon (1/8 oz) Bourbon Barrel 
• Aged Maple Syrup (Regular Maple Syrup works too!) 
• 1 Dash Cardamom Bitters 
• 1 Heaping tsp. Greek Yogurt 
• Garnish: Dehydrated Blood Orange Wheel 

Preparation: Combine all ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake vigorously for 20 seconds. Strain into a cocktail glass and garnish with a dehydrated blood orange wheel.

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Hip-hop legend, Grammy Award winning rapper and founder of INDOGGO® Gin, Snoop Dogg 

performs at the Superbowl Halftime Show. To celebrate Superbowl. Sunday, mix the Long Beach Lemonade cocktail recipe so you can sip like the Doggfather himself on gameday.  

All of America will be tuned in to watch the epic battle between the Bangles and the Rams in Snoop’s hometown of Los Angeles, but this year’s halftime performance is going to be one of the best of all time! A star-studded lineup of Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and none other than the California legend himself, Snoop Dogg will hit the stage Sunday, February 13th for a show like no other.  

The Long Beach native created his premium flavored gin in the Golden State so it’s fitting to celebrate with the king of Cali’s Gin ’n Juice–Snoop Dogg style!  

After maintaining his place in the public spotlight for over 25 years, the entertainment mogul ventured out into creating his own spirits brand with the mission of making a gin that exemplifies a laidback California lifestyle that is easy to mix, easy to drink, and hard to forget. Combine the strawberry flavored gin with fresh lemonade, ice cubes, and lemon garnishes to kick off your Super Bowl Sunday and watch the Doggfather perform his greatest hits alongside some of the most legendary names in music! 

Long Beach Lemonade

• Ingredients 
• 2 oz. Indoggo gin 
• 6 oz. fresh lemonade 

Preparation: add ingredients to a glass, stir, top with ice and garnish with lemon slices.

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Check out these three festive and beautifully presented cocktails

from Ketel One Vodka.  Sitting in for a comfy date night at home? Show off your bartending skills and whip up one of these three gems.  

The Nue Cosmo

Ingredients:  

• 1 1/2 oz. Ketel One Family Made Vodka 
• 1/2 oz. Sakura Cherry Blossom Vermouth 
• 1/2 oz. Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur 
• 1/2 oz. lime juice 
• 1/4 oz. simple syrup 

 Preparation: Combine ingredients in a shaker over ice. Strain into a chilled coupe glass. Garnish with a mini white rose and serve.  

The Kinky Coupe

Ingredients: 

• 1 1/2 oz. Ketel One Family Made Vodka 
• 1/2 oz. Ancho Reyes  
• 1/2 oz. Piquillo Pepper Syrup  
• 3/4 oz. lemon juice 
• Piquillo Sequins Lip stroke  

Preparation: Combine ingredients in a shaker over ice. Strain into a chilled Nick & Nora glass. Streak piquillo powder on side of glass to serve. 

The Café Crimson

Ingredients: 

• 1 1/2 oz. Ketel One Vodka Family Made Vodka  
• 1 1/2 oz. Black Cherry Kenyan Cold Brew* 
• 1/2 oz. unrefined coconut sugar syrup (1:1 ratio sugar to water) 
• 1/4 oz. St. George Raspberry Liqueur 
• 15 drops saline solution (1:5 ratio salt to water) 
• Salted-Vanilla Oat Milk (for garnish)** 
• Lemon twist (for garnish) 

 Preparation: Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice and shake well. Strain contents of shaker into a chilled coupe glass. Carefully layer salted-vanilla oat milk on top. Express oils from lemon twist and place decoratively on rim of glass. 

*Black Cherry Kenyan Cold Brew

Chill 60g coarse ground coffee steeped in 500ml black cherry juice for 24 hours in the refrigerator. Strain and keep refrigerated.  

• **Salted-Vanilla Oat Milk 
• Ingredients: 
• 500ml Oatly Oat Milk, Full Fat (about 2 cups) 
• ¾ tsp Vanilla Extract 
• ¼ tsp salt 

Preparation: Whisk oat milk, vanilla extract, and salt together in a cold bowl until creamy.

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Ole Smoky Distillery, one of the nation’s fastest growing spirits companies

and the most visited distillery in the world, announced its national partnership today with Grammy Nominated East Tennessee favorite, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. 

“Music has always been a part of the Ole Smoky experience,” says Robert Hall, CEO, Ole Smoky Distillery. “By featuring quality entertainment at our locations, we have created family-friendly destinations that salute the hospitality of East Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains.” 

Founded by CJ Lewandowski, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys was formed while Lewandowski was working at Ole Smoky Distillery in Gatlinburg in 2014. 

“We are proud of The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys and their passion for bluegrass music. We like to think of them as family, as they started playing together at our Holler Distillery. What started as one of our house bands, is now a national bluegrass favorite. We look forward to supporting their national tour this year,” added Hall. 

“We are so grateful to Ole Smoky Distillery for not only helping us get our start in bluegrass music, but now, supporting our music, our tour and our brand,” said CJ Lewandowski, founder, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys. 

The band’s forthcoming album, Never Slow Down, is releasing on March 25, via Smithsonian Folkways. In the meantime, catch the band on tour throughout the southeast to hear what NPR’s Mountain Stage called, “A spirited and aged brand of straight-ahead, Monroe-style bluegrass.” For tour dates and more information, visit theporamblinboys.com. 

About Ole Smoky® Distillery LLC 

Ole Smoky is one of the fastest growing spirits companies in the US and is the leading distiller of premium moonshine in the world, the leading craft distiller in the US and the first federally licensed distillery in the history of East Tennessee. Founded in 2010, Ole Smoky’s roots are traced to the Smoky Mountains’ earliest settlers, families who produced moonshine with enduring pride and Appalachian spirit. 

Ole Smoky Distillery has been recognized for two consecutive years on the notable Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest growing private companies. 

Today, Ole Smoky retails in all 50 states and over 20 countries around the world and offers more than 25 creative moonshine flavors and 17 inventive whiskey flavors. Ole Smoky can be found in liquor stores nationwide, as well as at the company’s four famed distilleries in Tennessee, The Holler and The Barrelhouse in Gatlinburg, The Barn in Pigeon Forge, and 6th & Peabody in Nashville. For more information, please visit olesmoky.com and follow Ole Smoky on social media @olesmoky.

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This Valentine’s Day what better way to celebrate perfect pairings than with whiskey and chocolate?

Small batch bourbon gives classic cocktails that extra something especially when mixed with chocolate flavors. Add a cherry on top and you’ve got a lovefest trifecta.

For a Valentine’s twist on two all-time classics, the Manhattan and the Old Fashioned, Ruddell’s Mill Kentucky Bourbon delightfully complements chocolate bitters and a cherry garnish. That’s Amore!  

Chocolate Manhattan

Ingredients: 

• 2 oz Ruddell’s Mill Kentucky Bourbon 
• 1 oz Premium Sweet Vermouth 
• 3 Dashes of The Bitter Truth Chocolate Bitters 

Preparations: Chill and Serve Up. Garnish with a Maraska Cocktail Cherry. 

Chocolate Old Fashioned

Ingredients: 

• 2 oz. Ruddell’s Mill Kentucky Bourbon 
• 1/3 oz. simple syrup 
• 3 dashes of The Bitter Truth Chocolate Bitters 

Preparation: Chill and serve over ice. Garnish with a Maraska Cocktail Cherry.

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The absence of the Mohegan Sun Wine and Food Festival in 2021 heightened anticipation for this year’s return, and its safe to say it was worth the wait.

It all started in the Earth Ballroom on Friday the 28th.  Guests “warmed” up their palates for the weekend at the Whiskeys of the World event! Various whiskeys from Japan, Ireland, Scotland, and Kentucky were paired with delicious eats from their respective geographic location. The international whiskey experience featured guest appearances from the likes of Kevin Des Chenes, Brian Duffy, Lamar Moore and David Rose.

Up next was the first look at The Grand Tasting. The preview was ideal for scouting out personal favorites among the 1000+ varieties of wine, beer, and spirits available on the big day.  

Tom Sandoval and Tom Schwartz stars of the hit reality series, Vanderpump Rules capped off day one with some more smooth whiskey sipping. At the stunning Novelle club, the duo hosted a mixology experience highlighting their new whiskey: Toms’ Good Lovin’. The interactive event at the main bar put smiles on everyone faces and shot glasses in their hands. Fans of the Bravo series were spoiled as their favorite actors from the show shared the story of their whiskey right before their eyes. 

The following Saturday afternoon, The Grand Tasting reminded all just how special the festival really is. Not much compares to the feeling of being handed your tasting glass as you peer into the seemingly infinite rows of vendor booths. Aromas of gourmet food fill the enormous Earth expo center as does the echoes of laughter and quality conversations. It’s a learning experience as much as it is an imbibing one. Every brand representative was happy to go in-depth on the nature of their product and how it came to be.

Chef demos from the best of the best ran throughout the course of the day as well. A few of the elite who flexed their craft up close and personal included Aarón Sánchez, Nyesha Arrington, and Todd English. 

A few hours after the tasting concluded, the gates to a food lover’s paradise opened, A.K.A the Celeb Chef Dine Around. In the fancy Uncas Ballroom, guests were able to chow down on specialty dishes and casually chat with the masterminds behind them. Twenty chefs were in attendance working their magic while socializing and taking pictures with fans. It’s a rare phenomenon to witness. 

The weekend wrapped up with a beautifully set up Game Day Brunch, hosted by Buddy Valastro, with special guest Victor Cruz. A delectable buffet comprised of everything conceivable along with specialty drinks was the prime setup to wind down and enjoy the NFL Conference Championships. Here’s to another weekend of lifelong memories at Mohegan!

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The Chilled 100 Bartender Group is a collection of working bartenders serving spirits across some of the most popular bars in the nation.

We look to our Chilled 100 Bartender group as a professional resource and an insider glimpse to the bartender perspective on what’s trending in the spirits industry and in bars.  

We recently invited a group of Chilled 100 bartenders, selected from random markets across the United States, to sample and review Spindrift Spiked Seltzer. 

Our Chilled 100 Bartenders were asked to taste each Spindrift Spiked flavor (four in all) and record their opinions of the brand along with citing its best uses and offer insight into serving spiked seltzers in bars. 

Our findings are consistent with what we anticipated about the spiked seltzer category today. Bartenders tend to rank a RTD brand with a high score if its ingredients and flavors are authentic and natural as opposed to artificial and full of sugar. 

According to this study, most bartenders favor Spindrift Spiked Seltzer for its quality ingredients, like “real fruit.” The bartenders also cited low sugar and low ABV as positive points. Bartenders would serve Spindrift Spiked Seltzer straight from the can with the other half opting to serve Spindrift in a glass with ice.  

When asked about the benefits of having Spindrift at their bars the bartenders in this study support Spindrift to offer their guests lower ABV options, great tasting flavors, low calorie options and alternatives to beer and liquor.  

They also site convenience, low waste, and easy clean up as reasons to support suggesting and serving Spindrift at their bars. Most of the bartenders in this study agree that quality ingredients (real fruit), natural flavors, and low sugar/ABV make Spindrift Spiked unique and a product they’d likely recommend to their guests.  

Their favorite flavor is Spindrift Pineapple with Spindrift Mango a close second choice.

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Thyme Bar, the cozy hidden cocktail lounge in the heart of Manhattan’s Flatiron

premiers a brand-new menu. Nestled in a historic pre-war cellar beneath 23rd Street, Thyme Bar’s dim-lit interior and intimate seating make for a perfectly romantic evening.  

Beverage director and acclaimed mixologist, Jeremy Le Blanche, has launched a new “Thyme Bar Experience” with an eye-catching and elegant five-course Apéritif and Winter Menu, including elaborate libations and delicate bites. Guests can enjoy cocktails like our Drink of the Week, The Queen of the Night, the Light Opium, and Trumpet of Death.  

The Queen of the Night is a part of the “Le Jardin” cocktail menu, inspired by classic cocktails with elevated mixology elements and presentation to create an artistic new iteration of the classics. The Queen of the Night is made of cognac, coffee Liqueur, Guinness reduction, and cold brew. Check out Thyme Bar’s Menu HERE.  

The Queen of the Night

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Created By beverage director Jeremy Le Blanche 

Ingredients:  

•  1oz.Rémy Martin  
•  1oz.Thyme Bar Coffee Liqueur  
•  1⁄2 oz.Guinnessreduction  
• 1 Espressoshot 

Preparation: Combine the ingredients and serve in a flute glass. Garnish with dark chocolate, orange rim, and chocolate chips. *Reduced Guinness Beer + 50% of sugar (50%= 1 to .5 ratio) 

About Thyme Bar (Flatiron, NYC): 
Thyme Bar is Flatiron’s newest underground hideaway, a cocktail speakeasy lounge in a historic pre-war cellar beneath Patisserie Chanson on 23rd Street, offering an unforgettable multisensory experience committed to revolutionizing what constitutes a “cocktail” both in taste, aroma, and presentation. Thyme Bar is premiering a new 5-course tasting Apéritif and Winter Menu, priced at $85 and available every Tuesday—Saturday from 5—10: 30 pm.

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