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  Cocktail Fun - Cocktail Recipes | Cocktails | Brandy
Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—fire wine) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume.
The origins of brandy are unclear, and tied to the development of distillation.
Brandy as it is known today first began to appear in the 12th century and became generally popular in the 14th century.
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  Brandy Drinks Page
Brandy is distilled from fermented fruit, sometimes aged in oak casks, and usually bottled at 80 proof.
One pioneer of fine brandy was Hugo Asbach, who described his brandy as "Weinbrand", the German word for grape brandy, which subsequently became the generic term for high-quality wine spirits.
Brandies fine enough to be drunk undiluted out of a snifter do not need to be heated over a candle.
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 Cocktail Fun - Cocktail Recipes | Cocktails | Brandy
Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—fire wine) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume.
The origins of brandy are unclear, and tied to the development of distillation.
Brandy as it is known today first began to appear in the 12th century and became generally popular in the 14th century.
cocktailfun.com /brandy_cocktails.php   (210 words)

  
 Cocktail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cocktail usually contains one or more types of liquor and flavorings, usually one or more of a liqueur, fruit, sauce, honey, milk or cream, spices, etc. The cocktail became popular during Prohibition in the United States primarily to mask the taste of bootlegged alcohol.
Many cocktails traditionally made with gin, such as the gimlet, or the martini, may now be served by default with vodka.
Cocktails were originally a morning beverage, and the cocktail was the name given as metaphor for the rooster (cocktail) heralding morning light of day.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brandy_cocktail   (810 words)

  
 Brandy Alexander (cocktail) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brandy Alexander is a sweet brandy-based cocktail popular during the early 20th century.
It is sometimes confused with a drink called a "Panama," which is a mix of Cognac, Tia Maria, and Bailey's Irish Cream.
In a shaker half-filled with ice cubes, combine the brandy, creme de cacao, and half-and-half.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brandy_Alexander   (337 words)

  
 Cocktail Times.com | History of Cocktail
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Fruits brandies are usually bottled at 80 to 90 proof and made from apple, peach, apricots, flberry, and cherry etc. Applejack, Apple brandies and Calvados are distilled from apple cider.
The cocktail seems to have the history in the clouded mystery and myth..
www.cocktailtimes.com /history/brandy/index.html   (988 words)

  
 Brandy History, Types and Recipes
Brandy (in the form in which it is now known) came to Europe in the 14th century and was widely distributed throughout the continent by the 16th century.
Brandy is a spirit made from grapes, pomace (the solid remnants of pressed fruit) or fermented fruit juice.
Pomace brandy is made from the leftover solids of pressed fruit that have been mashed into a pulp and then stored for months in glass bottles.
www.drinkfocus.com /articles/brandy/index.php   (881 words)

  
 UKBG - Classic Cocktail Recipes Bar Training UK
Originally called the "75 Cocktail," the combination was added to by Harry of Harry's New York Bar in Paris after the war and became known as the French 75.
The origin of this cocktail is a tale of two bartenders: Don Beach at The Beachcomber restaurant in Hollywood in the early 1930s; and Victor "Trader Vic" Bergeron of his Emeryville bar, Hinky Dinks, in 1944.
This cocktail was considered "a wholesome and well concocted" recipe by American bartender Patrick Duffy, a legend during the 1920s and 1930s.
www.ukbg.co.uk /cocktail-recipes/classic-cocktails.html   (4271 words)

  
 Brandy Drinks Page
Brandy is distilled from fermented fruit, sometimes aged in oak casks, and
brandies are blended solely from grape spirits produced in pot-stills.
Brandies fine enough to be drunk undiluted out of a snifter do not need to
home.att.net /~lounge.lizard/BRANDY.htm   (1607 words)

  
 Sikkim Distilleries Ltd - Product
Traditional gin-based cocktails include John Collins (Tom Collins should be made with a particular sweeter type of gin called Old Tom), Bronx, White Lady and, of course, Dry Martini-a combination of gin and a dry vermouth (not necessarily the brand called Martini with which there is no connection, the similarity in name being purely coincidental).
Brandy, according to Dr Johnson, is the drink for men who aspire to being heroes.
Apart from a very few cognacs and Armagnacs, all brandies are blends of different ages, and it requires great skill and a lot of experience to consistently produce the same distinctive 'brand' taste year after year.
www.sikkimdistilleries.com /cocktails.htm   (1835 words)

  
 Drinks A-F
Place the brandy, sugar syrup, kirsch, and the citrus peels in the bowl and heat the bowl with a heating element placed under the cradle.
This cocktail was created at Rainbow to celebrate the co-promotion with the revival of the musical Chicago.
Fill a cocktail glass with crushed ice to chill, dump the ice and fill with sugar, dump the sugar leaving the glass coated.
www.kingcocktail.com /DrinksA-F.htm   (3764 words)

  
 OnMilwaukee.com Bars & Clubs: Wisconsinites love affair with brandy
Hot drinks like the brandy alexander (also served cold as an after-dinner drink) and the hot toddy are not only popular winter cocktails, but also believed by some to reduce the effects of colds and flus.
Plus, brandy old fashions, both sweet and sour, are a Wisconsin holiday tradition, and coffee with a shot of brandy is also quite common in these parts.
Brandy is also a coveted liqueur in California, but most West Coast drinkers enjoy it straight up in a snifter, whereas Wisconsinites usually mix it into a cocktail.
www.onmilwaukee.com /bars/articles/brandy.html   (629 words)

  
 Cocktail Recipes - B
Float brandy on top of benedictine in a cordial glass without mixing and serve.
Rub the rim of a cocktail glass with lime wedge and dip glass into sugar to coat rim thoroughly; reserve lime.
Shake brandy, juice of lemon, and powdered sugar with ice and strain into a whiskey sour glass.
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 Sidecar
While the true origins of many cocktails are lost to the raveges of time, and others suffer from too many contradictory origins, anything that can help you put more behind a cocktail then just its list of ingredients, can help you to add a sense of character to your drinks.
So he combined cognac, cointreau, and lemon juice to mix a cocktail whos focus was on the warming qualities of both the brandy, and the cointreau, while the lemon juice added enough of a tartness to make it appropriate as a pre-dinner cocktail.
The sort of cocktail you might grab off of a full tray that was making its way through the room and absent mindedly sip on it as you chatted politics with a small group of friends.
www.drinkboy.com /Cocktails/recipes/Sidecar.html   (899 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Little Book of Brandy Cocktails (Little Book of Cocktails): Books: Hamlyn   (Site not responding. Last check: )
See why brandy is called the Noble Spirit, why so many different liquor bases are called brandies, and why it's the ideal mixer that can enhance every celebration from your biggest bash to your most romantic tête-à-tête.
Put the essential brandy cocktails under your belt--Brandy Fizz, Singapore Sling, Egg Nog, and Hot Brandy Punch--but then have a go at a Horse's Neck, Between the Sheets, French Connection, Bedtime Bouncer, Sundowner, and Coffee Diablo.
Brandy Cocktails — Visit Fine Living to find the top 10 cocktail recipes for the holidays.
www.amazon.com /Little-Book-Brandy-Cocktails/dp/0600604373   (565 words)

  
 The Webtender: Brandy
Brandy is a liquor distilled from wine (brandy) or fermented fruit juice (fruit brandy).
Most fruit brandies are made from fermented fruit mash (such as apples and pears), but other sugar-poor fruits not capable of fermentation (such as raspberries and flberries) can be soaked in neutral spirits and then re-distilled.
Within the general category of fruit brandies, a distinction is made between distillates from pomaceous fruits, stone fruits and berries.
www.webtender.com /db/ingred/192   (403 words)

  
 How to Drink Brandy - Drink of the Week
Brandies are typically served in this fashion as an after dinner drink.
Brandy can be enjoyed neat, in a cocktail, as a fine after dinner drink.
This entry was posted on Monday, September 25th, 2006 at 10:55 pm and is filed under Brandy, Cocktail Q and A.
www.drinkoftheweek.com /blog/how-to-drink-brandy   (426 words)

  
 Blackberry Brandy cocktail recipes
Shake ingredients with ice, strain into a cocktail glass, and serve.
Dissolve sugar, shake and strain ingredients (except lemonade) into a highball glass half-filled with ice.
Combine the vanilla ice cream and flberry brandy in a blender.
www.drinksmixer.com /cat/2331   (100 words)

  
 Two Brandy Crusta recipes » Cocktail adventures at Oh Gosh!
The topic this month is brandy, a subject which offers many possibilities from Cognac and Calvados to the altogether different tastes of Pisco or even kirsch.
The Brandy Crusta uses the most elaborate garnish I have ever attempted to recreate - a sugar-rimmed glass with the skin of a lemon around the rim acting as a second lip to the glass.
Sidecar – A discussion of the sour family of cocktails, recipe for the gin based Chelsea Sidecar, and recipe for the original brandy based Sidecar.
ohgo.sh /archive/brandy-crusta   (840 words)

  
 Two Drink Minimum; The After 5 Cocktail Blog » Brandy
The Mai Tai is a well-known alcoholic cocktail purportedly invented at the Trader Vic’s “Polynesian-style” restaurant in Oakland, California in 1944.
Having Scotch whisky as a base spirit of the cocktail, the book carried a note indicating that the cocktail was already popular among Scots, “particularly for St. Andrew’s day to open the evening for the usual enormous annual gathering of the Clans at the Savoy.”.
Its combination of sweetness and refreshing citrus and mint flavors are intended to mask the potent kick of the rum, and have made this clear cocktail a popular summer drink.
www.after5catalog.com /cocktailblog/category/brandy   (2419 words)

  
 Cocktail Recipes - D
In a mixing glass half-filled with ice cubes, combine the gin, brandy, sweet vermouth, dry vermouth, and bitters.
Stir all ingredients (except lemon and cherry) with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Pour brandy and Kahlua into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice cubes and stir.
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 Apricot Brandy Cocktails » Cocktail adventures at Oh Gosh!
The third round of Raiders of the Lost Cocktail, the semi-regular event that aims to find lost cocktails made with forgotten ingredients, draws to a close tomorrow.
Paul picked apricot brandy as the chosen ingredient, which gave me a great excuse to go out and buy a spirit I had previously neglected.
The apricot brandy remains in the background, probably not helped by the fact the Giffard brandy is fairly light in flavour.
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 Brandy Cocktails Recipes Free Information, Tips and Tricks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The term brandy means an alcoholic spirit distilled from grape wine or Marc, the residue of the grape press.
Since the fermented juice of apples, cherries, peaches, and other fruits can also be distilled, brandies made from such fruits must be refereed to by the name i.e.
Brandy is left to age in oak barrels which give it colour.
www.askjerry.co.uk /fooddrink/brandycocktails.htm   (1494 words)

  
 Mixology Monday XXIII: Brandy :: SLOSHED!
Jamie from Spirits and Cocktails rings in with the Mikado Cocktail, the first of three (3) brandy posts he’ll be featuring this week.
Bamboo, the cocktail blogosphere’s favorite artist, confronts his lukewarm feelings for brandy and comes out ahead with calvados in the So So Cocktail.
Andy (thirtyoneknots) gives us an unnamed citrus-and-brandy cocktail that he developed thanks to a challenge from a regular patron.
sloshed.hyperkinetic.org /2008/01/15/mixology-monday-xxiii-brandy   (1362 words)

  
 The Cocktail Chronicles » Brandy
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With its base of port backed up with half as much brandy, and a dash of orange juice for brightness, the Sensation is a gentle, soothing companion for the dead of winter.
Carefully light the brandy — I like to use a sugar cube soaked with a bit of the brandy, place it in the bowl of a long-handled spoon, light it and then stand back while placing the burning cube in the boozy punch.
www.cocktailchronicles.com /category/spirits/brandy   (2485 words)

  
 The Spirit World - » Raiders of the Lost Cocktail - Apricot Brandy
Less typical are drinks calling for a “true” apricot brandy (aka eau de vie, or barack palinka), so for the sake of this exercise, let’s stick with the sweet stuff.
The old Danish cocktail manual I found it in says that the drink was invented by John Jakobsen who was bartending at the Bellevue Strandhotel in Klampenborg, probably in the sixties.
I wanted to throw in another apricot brandy cocktail out of competition — it’s been published but it’s new, not vintage or lost.
thespiritworld.net /2008/01/18/raiders-of-the-lost-cocktail-apricot-brandy   (2420 words)

  
 Authentic Cypriot Taverna Brandy Sour Cocktail Recipe | Recipezaar
We used to make these with the local Cypriot brandy, which is not as strong as normal French brandy or cognac and has a delectable caramel taste to it.
The cocktail was developed at the Forest Park Hotel, in the hill-resort of Plátres in the beautiful Troodos Mountain range, for the young King Farouk of Egypt, who often stayed at the hotel during his frequent visits to the island.
(2 measures of brandy to 1 measure of lemon cordial is the ratio.).
www.recipezaar.com /307582   (598 words)

  
 Napoleon Brandy,Brandy Cocktail,Brandy Manufacturers,Suppliers India
We are one of the leading Brandy Cocktail, Brandy Manufacturers and Suppliers, based in India.
Our Napoleon Brandy and Brandy Cocktail are widely admired by local as well as international clients.
These napoleon brandy and brandy cocktail are proffered by us on the most competitive price.
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 Drink of the Week - Brandy Drink Recipes. Find cocktail recipes made with brandy, cognac or armanac and hundreds of ...
Brandy by definition is any spirit made from distilled grape wine.
Brandies are also made from other fruits such as apples or cherries.
If you have a favorite brandy cocktail recipe that you don't see here, please let us know.
www.drinkoftheweek.com /spirits/brandy.html   (231 words)

  
 Mixology.com - The art & science of cocktails recipes and drink recipes - Brandy Cocktail
Mixology.com - The art & science of cocktails recipes and drink recipes - Brandy Cocktail
Stir with cracked ice; strain into chilled cocktail glass.
Variations: 1 dash Angostura bitters and 1 dash gin; 2 dashes sugar syrup and 2 drops Angostura bitters; 2 dashes curacao and 1 dash Angostura bitters - serve with olive.
www.mixology.com /recipes/ShowRecipe40sr.asp?ID=334   (54 words)

  
 Brandy Cocktail Recipe
Stir all ingredients (except lemon peel) with ice and strain into a cocktail glass.
Add the twist of lemon peel and serve.
You may use free mixed drinks/drink recipes/recepies/recepie for private study, research or scholarship purposes only.
www.barmandrinks.com /cocktails-drinks/brandycocktail-drink.html   (89 words)

  
 Brandy Library
A Southern classic, but guaranteed to hit you wherever you are.
The greatest city on Earth has the greatest cocktail.
The standard issue cocktail… except for race day.
www.brandylibrary.com /sections/menus/cocktails.htm   (838 words)

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