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Salt Lake City cocktailians who like to experiment with classic cocktails will recall the recent post on the Calvados cocktail from the Savoy Cocktail Book , one of the classic cocktail books written at the height of Prohibition by the great Harry Craddock , barman at The American Bar in the Savoy Hotel, London.

The Admiral Benbow Inn. It's a place where Jim Hawkins stayed in Treasure Island , and it shares a name with this cocktail I'll get to in a moment.

Linda Pettine is what you want your university professor to be: eminently competent, knowledgeable, articulate, poised, and personable.

Around this time last year, a vodka company approached me, asking if I would create a cocktail that would be appropriate to hoist in honor of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton.

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US: Pernod Ricard, Southern Wine & Spirits extend distribution tie-up to Washington The US unit of Pernod Ricard has lined up Southern Wine & Spirits of America to distribute its brands in the state of Washington.

As a first time participant at the World Spirits Competition, Madison-based Yahara Bay Distillers emerged as the gold medal winner in two of the 12 spirit categories.

Dropsafe is the blog of Alec Muffett with occasional contributions by Bart Blanquart ; our interests tend to overlap as-described in the masthead more I don't get it - I post # luftwaffles to # reddit /r/funny after checking not a repost.

When Pernod Ricard said last week that it is updating the packaging for - and raising the price of - Plymouth Gin, there was a run on tonic water at Richard Woodard's local shop.

"Basically, gin is infused vodka," explains Andrew Friedman of Liberty, site of our blind gin taste test.

It may be my obsession with Downton Abbey and the BBC's Sherlock , but lately I've been craving classic English cocktails: gin and tonics, for example.