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Estamos vivendo na idade de ouro dos espíritos. Nunca antes houve tantas bebidas disputando um espaço no seu bar. Como uma categoria de espírituosos, o gin cresceu aos trancos e barrancos, com uma programação mais diversificada do que nunca. A chave para garregar a sua barra é escolher entre um espectro de diferentes gêneros de gins para que tenha sempre a garrafa certa à mão. 5 GINS ESSENCIAIS PARA O SEU BAR 1: GORDON'S LONDON DRY Comece com o básico - qualquer coleção de gin precisa de um London dry e seu tradicional perfil de sabor. "Para Cockteis clássicos, Espirituosos clássicos" . Salgado com um acabamento levemente adocicado, este gin cheio de zimbro tem o corpo botânico completo para ser o companheiro perfeito para as partes iguais do clássico Negroni amargo. NEGRONI (MEU PREFERIDO) 2: SIPSMITH LONDON DRY Agora, uma abordagem moderna  e um giro com um clássico Sêco de Londres, do pessoal que reviveu a categoria e provocou uma revolução ...

Bacardi: Company founder Don Facundo Bacardi Masso bought his first rum distillery in Cuba for 3,500 pesos. Wars, natural disasters, bankruptcy and exile have failed to tame the Bacardí family spirit. Instead, with each knock-back, they have remained strong, determined and passionate. Why? Because they have always believed in the quality of their rum. Their faith was first rewarded with a Gold Medal at the Philadelphia Exposition of 1876 and, since then, BACARDÍ rum has earned more than 550 awards for taste, quality and innovation. Today, according to independent research conducted and audited in May 2012, BACARDÍ is the top-selling and most awarded rum in the world, as well as the world’s most awarded spirit. Want to know why the Bacardi logo is a bat? Bacardi is the only rum that uses a free-tailed bat as its logo. There are two main reasons for this. The first is the bat's relation to sugar cane. Sugar cane is used in the production of Bacardi rum (as w...

The question of the cocktail What actually is a cocktail? What does the word mean and where did it come from? I think that these are some valid questions, considering that I have enjoyed cocktail hours, menus and the drinks known universally as “cocktails” for many years. The actual answer It is now a well-known fact that the word “cocktail” was first defined in 1806 by The Balance and Columbian Repository of Hudson, New York as “a stimulating liquor composed of any kind of sugar, water and bitters, vulgarly called a bittered sling.” Most cocktail aficionados might recognize that formula from drinks such as the Old Fashioned and Sazerac. Some geeks out there might even be aware that before the invention of bitters, cocktails were known as “slings,” which comes from the German word “schlingen,” meaning to swallow quickly. The first time the word “cocktail” is recorded as being used in the U.S. was on April 28, 1803 in a publication called The Farmers’ Cabinet and in the UK t...

Vermouth, the flavoured wine. Vermouth got its start in Northern Italy in the 16th century, as a medicinal drink, created to cure many ailments of the time. Over the centuries, the basic formula has changed little, although the making of vermouth has kept step with the technological advances of wine-making and distillation. Vermouth is officially classified as an “flavoured fortified wine,” a tongue-twisting term meaning a base white wine fortified to a minimum of 16 percent alcohol and infused with a proprietary recipe of as many as 40 different plants, barks, seeds, and fruit peels, collectively known as botanical, While the infusion gives vermouth its unique flavour and aroma, it is precisely that character that causes some people to dismiss vermouth as being “medicinal.” The main types of Vermouth are Dry Vermouth and Sweet Vermouth. Dry Vermouth is white, approx. 18 % alcohol (36 proof). The original Vermouth, "Sweet Vermouth" is also available in white (b...