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Top 5 Fruity Gins For Be-gin-ners - News - Gin Festival. Here at Gin Festival HQ we love a fruity little number and we know you do too!

Top 5 Fruity Gins For Be-gin-ners - News - Gin Festival

Fruity gins are full of flavour and sweeter than the classic London Dry, which makes them perfect for beg-gin-ners, or any gin lover. If you or your friends haven't found a gin you like, or even *gasp* don’t like it, give these juicy drinks a try. You’ll be a gin convert in no time! If you’re already a master in the world of gin then try them neat - fruity gins are a gorgeously warming drink on a chilly night *cheers*! So give fruity gins a go, we’ve picked out our top 5 right now for you to try. Boe Scottish Bramble Gin Liqueur Starting with unmistakable flavours of blackcurrants, blackberries and black raspberries, Boë Scottish Bramble Gin Liqueur develops notes of apple and citrus, before leading into a lingering, sweet finish.

Edinburgh Gin Plum & Vanilla Liqueur Sweet and intense, delicious neat or mixed with Prosecco. PJ Gin Elderflower Smooth and gloriously fresh and floral. Drinks. RECIPE: ROSEMARY SODA. Eggboy did a funny thing today. he spent time in the kitchen and he was not making eggs {!!}

RECIPE: ROSEMARY SODA

, he was making rosemary soda. and it was only half because i think he is a good hand model. the other half is because the rosemary came from his mummy's garden! All the way from northern minnesota/practically canada. this is the easiest recipe ever. eggboys of all types can make it, even ones with zero kitchen experience. and it is so delicious, it went over wonderfully at the new music bake sale. 1. mix these in a sauce pan and bring to a simmer: 1 tablespoon dried rosemary + 3/4 cup white sugar + 1 cup water 2. let simmer over medium low heat for 30 minutes, stirring frequently 3. strain out the rosemary 4. add a few spoonfuls to fizzy water and stir {taste and add more syrup or water if necessary, depending on your preference}

S'moretini Shooters. Me again.

S'moretini Shooters

Here to convince you that you need yet another trendy, insanely-flavored bottle of booze. I do what I can. I know what you’re thinking. “Does marshmallow vodka really taste that different from that whipped cream vodka you already insisted that I buy? Or how about the cake batter vodka that I went out and bought immediately in order to drink a cake martini for breakfast?” Well… not technically. Kale-o-mite! - NutriLiving Recipes. Recipe: Bourbon Slush Cocktail - Kentucky Derby. Drinkify. SF Cocktail Party. How to make skittles vodka. Jello Shots. 10 Jello Shots Worth the Hangover.

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Smooth(ie) Sailing collection. Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch... Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch right here.

Five simple fucking ingredients in this bitch...

This is some good shit to make when you are feeling bougie as fuck. High-fructose corn syrup? Naw son, I don’t play that. Hit this with some vodka though, different story. Max relax. 5 cups of water 1/2 -3/4 cup sugar (yeah, it is fucking lemonade. without the sugar it is just real sour fucking water) 3/4 cup Meyer lemon juice, about 6 lemons ​(you can just use the regular lemons at the store too, not a dealbreaker)

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Drinkify. The Ultimate Movie Drinking Game List! Web’s Best: Whiskey Drinks. Unlike The Most Interesting Man in the World, we almost always drink beer.

Web’s Best: Whiskey Drinks

When we don’t, however, our go to liquor is whiskey. What can we say, bourbon is neat (little whiskey humor). While we usually just pour a few fingers and relax, sometimes we like to get a tad more creative. Here are The Web’s Best Whiskey Drinks: Hot Blooded Besides sounding like the most badass fruit, blood oranges are freakin’ delicious! PDT’s Bacon Old Fashioned If PDT isn’t a cab ride away from where you live, we highly recommend making their Bacon Old Fashioned in the comfort of your own home. Double Chocolate Bourbon Egg Cream If we’d been around for the Brooklyn egg cream craze, we’d have added a little topping from our flask at the corner pop shop as well. Make an Evaporative Terra Cotta Beer Chiller.

So I was browsing the Self Sufficient 'ish' sometime last year and came upon the article titled Keeping your cool, Replacing the Humble Refigerator by a guy named Nev Sweeney.

Make an Evaporative Terra Cotta Beer Chiller

He digs around some alternatives and dredges up the pot-in-pot system developed by one Mr. Mohammad Bah Abba in Nigeria, Africa. The gist is this: take a big, unglazed terra cotta pot and fill it with a little sand then put a smaller pot inside and fill the gap between with more sand. Add water and allow evaporation to provide the cooling. Mr. Well, I decided to go a bit further.

First, the science behind the whole thing is that of the wet-bulb thermometer. Second, how can one convert this to something practical? So I developed the idea of a terra cotta beverage cooler.