A one-time holiday staple, eggnog is back in tasty fashion Eggnog, the traditional American winter holiday drink, fell somewhat out of favor for some years. Why? It’s hard to say. Perhaps its creaminess scared off the health-conscious, or its sometimes...
Sisters Rosalinda and Elizabeth Mendoza combine Yakima and Michoacán lineage to make award-winning mezcal Recently, I was watching a police-based TV show, and two detectives were returning from Mexico, carrying heavy hangovers. The main character asked what they’d...
Pacific Northwest-made rums are perfect for summer — and year round Ahoy mateys, gather round ol’ pirate Cap’n Rathbun so I can tell ye a tale. It has to do with rum, the heroic high-seas tipple, sworn liquid pal of pirates and anyone adoring bright sunshine and...
Edmond’s Scratch Distillery Turns 10 The story of how Scratch Distillery in Edmonds, Washington, started around a gin-erific romance between Kim and Bryan Karrick is bottled into Pacific Northwest distillery lore. And now the distillery into which they’ve poured...
Idaho’s Warfield Distillery is crafting organic award-winning spirits After years of talking with Pacific Northwest beverage makers, I believe every worthy craft distillery could be the subject of an epic poem. These distillers have to battle through trials and...
Celebrate bartenders and chefs with Brovo Spirits and local restaurants I’m guessing you, like me, are someone who loves local bartenders and chefs, tastily relishing the cocktails and meals they deliver — and, hopefully, what they put into creating them. Now you...
The flowering of locally-made red aperitifs are bound to add taste and color to your Mother’s Day brunches (and beyond). It’s nearly Mother’s Day as I write this, and I can picture mom’s day brunch planners mulling over what to make as an appropriate late-morning,...
With Fonté coffee beans and a bourbon base, Old Log Cabin’s coffee liqueur isn’t any old cuppa joe While the legendary Italian caffè corretto — where espresso is “corrected” by the addition of grappa, sambuca or other liquor — is more talked about, I feel there’s...
Kim Karrick, Scratch’s co-founder and distiller, refuses to rest on her liquid laurels The meet-cute story behind Scratch Distillery has become a local libation legend: Bryan Karrick asked then Kim Lenhardt out for a Michigan State collegiate date. On it, he mixed...
Italian legends say that on “la notte di San Giovanni,” (the day before the summer solstice), you can see the future. It’s also the night, the same legends say, when barefoot witches dance around walnut trees, performing rituals and gathering unripe green walnuts...
