A fun and educational night was had by all at the Cocktailing event.
Craft Distillers and Twin Liquors hosted the fun affair, featuring 3 fantastic area bartenders!
Recipe Links featured in photo captions!



Christopher Stevens tastes the group on Low Gap White Whiskey, Twin Liquors Blend Germain Robin Brandy
and Allipus Mezcal


An amazing lineup of spirits

“Of all the gin joints of all the towns, she.....!”

by Carolyn Scott, Twin Liquors Marketplace College Station

“Of all the gin joints of all the towns in the world, she walks into mine!”    -Humphrey Bogart, Casablanca, 1943

In 1862, the first bartender’s guide was published. Since then the world of cocktails has exploded! Mixology has become an art form and since the 80’s, cocktails have become more intricate and more lavish at times requiring more ingredients than the dinner with which it’s being served! Fortunately, since about 2000, classic and vintage cocktails have been making a comeback. Bartenders and mixologists have been focusing on quality drinks and using the best spirits, mixers and ingredients available. People are learning to enjoy cocktails and appreciate the art. Of course it hasn’t always been this way. Even when cocktails were in their heyday, they weren’t always the best. Many vintage cocktails were actually created in order to cover up the taste of low quality terrible spirits that were illicitly made at the time.  

A fun time was had by all at the Robert Burns events hosted at 7 different Twin Liquors Marketplaces on January 25th, to celebrate the birth anniversary of Scottish poet Robert Burns.

The evening began with a reading of “A Scotch Drink”


A lovely lineup of Scotch


Twin Liquors Marketplace at the Hill Country Galleria featured Macallan, Highland Park and Famous Grouse. Other Marketplace stores featured Scotches from Balvenie, Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Jura, Dalmore, Gordon McPhail, Whyte Mackay, Aberlour, Oban, Craggenmore, Dalwhinnie, Glenmorangie and more.


Brand Ambassador Jeremy Fonicello from Macallan


We learned, laughed, toasted and enjoyed!

Holiday Recipes...Cocktail Combos...ease, value AND style!!

prices and combos good thru Dec 31, 2012.

Texas Tiki Week is in June! Make sure you brush up on the cocktails and culture!!

 By David Alan, The Tipsy Texan

This article first appeared in Edible Austin

 

Champagne is always on my NYE agenda, but I like to mix it up with some Spirit too!  Sandra Spalding

 

Champagne is always on my NYE agenda, but I like to mix it up with some Spirit too! Every year I drink good vintage champagne, but I will start the night with some sort of bubbly cocktail.

 

by Cameron Spencer - Twin Liquors New Braunfels

In the last few years flavored vodka has made a big splash in the liquor industry.  We’ve seen everything from vanilla to mountain dew flavored booze.  This trend is older than we might think however, in countries like Poland people have been flavoring their vodka for centuries, one example is Żubrόwka .  While Żubrόwka  is relatively unknown here in the US, its flavor is universal in appeal and it is sure to surprise you with its unusual and seductive scent.

By Cameron Spencer, Twin Liquors New Braunfels

 

by Cindy Caminite

 

‘Bourbon tasting is a more laid back, long, slow process.

It is tradition and history’.  - Trey Zoeller

It was such a pleasure to have Trey visit Twin Liquors and to taste his bourbons with him. He has been traveling and introducing his bourbons to current bourbon enthusiasts and new bourbon drinkers. I do admit, I did tell Trey Zoeller I was not a bourbon drinker, knew nothing about distilling bourbon, nor the bourbon process. He did not seem surprised!

Holding a glass of bourbon, Trey began with the history of bourbon, adding a few quips, and little known facts.

‘Bourbon is whiskey, yet not all whiskey is bourbon’

After the war, General Washington began to tax alcohol. Many distillers decided to move to Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee to escape the tax…..literally ‘out of the reach’ of the tax collectors!