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Tipple Tuesday: It’s Negroni Week!

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Let’s get right to business: Equal parts gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth. Make it even better with orange bitters and an orange peel. If the bitterness of the classic Negroni isn’t your thing, use Lillet Blanc instead of Campari to make a French Negroni.

June 6-12 is Negroni Week, a time to sip one of the best cocktails we can imagine and support some great charities.

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Negroni RecipeFrench Negroni

 

The simple recipe is easy to remember, easy to make, and great to experiment with. Have some fun this week. Here are some ideas:

Negroni variations

Sip a tasty Negroni this week and donate to a good cause.

Tipple Tuesday: Rye Old Fashioned

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Fall has arrived here in NY. With a cool breeze coming through the window as I write this, I can’t think of anything more fitting to imbibe than a rye old fashioned.

There are more variations of this drink than there are grains of sugar in it, but here is my favorite:

Rye Old Fashioned

Combine the simple syrup, bitters, and rye in a rocks glass and stir. Add the ice cube and garnish with an orange peel and a homemade maraschino cherry.

Rye Old FashionedRye Old Fashioned

 

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Rye Old Fashioned recipe

Tipple Tuesday: Negroni

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In my opinion, the king of all summer drinks is the Negroni, which is said to have been born in 1919 when Count Camillo Negroni asked the bartender at Caffe Casoni to replace the club soda in an Americano with gin. The result is boozy, bitter, and wonderful.

The simple equal-parts recipe of gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth is a great base for young cocktail artisans to experiment with. Here are some ideas:

  • Add a few couple of dashes of orange bitters (my preferred recipe)
  • Try different gins
  • Swap Aperol for Campari
  • Swap Cappelletti for Campari
  • Replace gin with bourbon for a Boulevardier (this my go-to drink in the winter when I’m not drinking whiskey neat)
  • Try different sweet vermouths. Carpano Antica and Punt e Mes are particularly good.
  • Swap rum for gin and East India sherry for vermouth for an East India Negroni

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Negroni Recipe

 

Negroni

 

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