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Jägermeister Launches Luxury Expression Manifest

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German herbal liqueur Jägermeister boasting over 80 years of an unchanged recipe characteristic for its herbal notes launched its first (and permanent) luxury extension Jägermeister Manifest. The new expression continues with the same herbal brand legacy adding extra punch to the game: more herbs, an increased number of macerates in the process, and stronger alcohol content. Manifest is for the consumer who was used to drinking the original and is now ready for a premium product.

Jägermeister is traditionally built on 56 premium ingredients– a mixture of herbs, blossom, roots, and fruits from all around the world. “After 80 years of producing the perfekt Jägermeister recipe, we decided to create a spirit that would build upon the original recipe to appease our consumer that had grown and evolved with us over the years,” explains brand meister, Willy Shine. Manifest boasts an array of extra secret ingredients too and an aging-like process of maceration in an old oak barrel where it rests for a year while the wheat distillate rests in oak casks with a medium char. The wood then adds a bit of vanilla flavor to the new spirit.

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Images: Courtesy of the brand

In comparison to the original, Manifest has more of an alcohol punch rather than the immediate warm that hits your tastebuds in Jägermeister. The newest expression is much spicier with ginger and even honey notes compared to the original which was quite spicy as well, but citrus and espresso notes took lead. “Manifest builds on Jägermeister’s iconic appeal, while at the same time transcending its tradition,” says Shine. As a result, Manifest is the big brother in this situation: refined and ambitious.

Super premium spirits have experiences significant popularity in the past few years with consumers preferring quality and the experience of liquid appreciation. Alcohol brands have elicited their options, usually available only at bars, as sipping options or unique cocktails. As for Manifest, it’s utilitarian whether you drink it chilled over ice, neat, or in a Manifest Old Fashioned:

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Ingredients: 

  • 1.5 parts Manifest
  • .5 parts Four Roses Small Batch Bourbon
  • .25 parts Black tea one syrup (1-1 Black tea to honey)
  • Spritz absinthe w/ atomizer
  • Garnish: Orange Peel
  • Glass: Rocks Glass
  • Ice: 2”x2” Ice Cube

Method: 

  • Stir & Strain garnished with expressed orange peel

Manifest is available in select on-premise accounts throughout the United States at an SRP of $59.99.

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Summer’s Here: Drink Some Rum

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The sun is out and it’s time for rum. Update your bar cart with some top-tier Santa Teresa 1796. Santa Teresa –Venezuela’s oldest rum manufacturer at 220 years old — is the ultimate rum for the usual scotch or whiskey lover, and an optimal summer substitution. Whether you prefer to start off with it in a simple Old-Fashioned or finish of with an digestif on the rocks, you won’t go wrong with Santa Teresa.

The flavor is an unforgettable oak fused with caramel and almond butter that will surely spoil your taste buds. The elegant blend is a result of the Solera method that is normally used in the production of premium brandy and sherry — this process consists of stacked rows of barrels holding rums of scaling maturity in a sort of waterfall formation. When a portion of the rum is drawn from the bottom, the rest of the liquid fills the space, making sure that the oldest combines with the youngest for a rich blend.

The beautiful process is the work of Alberto C. Vollmer’s ancestors. His own addition to the family brand is the Project Alcatraz which employs hundreds of Venezuelan men from crime and recruits youth at risk of being pulled into gangs. Within 10 years, Santa Teresa has single-handedly lowered Venezuela’s homicide rate by 90%. So have a drink for a cause.

Drink Santa Teresa 1796 on the rocks or in an Old Fashioned:

In a mixing glass:

Ingredient

  • 3 dashes of Angostura Bitter
  • 15ML Brown Sugar Syrup (1 part water and 1 part brown sugar) 
  • 50ML Santa Teresa 1796
  • Add ice and stir for 30-40 seconds 
  • Strain in a double old fashioned glass over a large cube of ice and then garnish with lemon and orange twist, pressing the oils into the drink

Salud!

 

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It’s Been a Long Week: Miss Ada’s Lavender Old Fashioned

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Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, Miss Ada.

WHAT

Named for its Hebrew heritage, Miss Ada, Brooklyn’s Mediterranean hot spot, showcases the Lavender Old Fashioned, a sweet treat that professes the eatery’s relaxed aesthetic. With flowery overtones and a sugary finish the cocktail provides summer’s sippable must.

HOW

Ingredients:

  • 6 oz. Lavender
  • 2 oz. Four Roses bourbon
  • 2 qt. Water
  • 4 c. Sugar
  • 1 dash Angostura bitters

Image: ESSENTIAL HOMME, Four Roses, Fiji, Domino Sugar, and Angostura Orange.

THEN

Combine lavender, water, and sugar in a sauce pan and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Let the mixture steep overnight. Then, take two bar spoons of simple syrup and stir with bourbon and bitters in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a rocks glass with fresh ice and garnish with a lemon peel.

From Our Gift Guide: Four Inniskillin Icewine Recipes for The Holidays

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On page 176 of the November/December issue, we promised you a few tasty recipes using Inniskillin Icewine that will be sure to impress at all those upcoming holiday parties. So here they are, one-of-a-kind creations from Karin Stanley, renowned bartender and co-owner of New York cocktail haven Dutch Kills.  Just don’t spill anything on your web-reading device while attempting. (After the jump)

 

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Related: 3 Celebrity Wines For the Holidays

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Bacardi 8 Year Rum – Time to Sip your Rum

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When most people think about Bacardi, they think Bacardi Superior white rum. This is the rum that you’ll find behind most bars, and typically it’s you’ll get when you order a ‘Rum and Coke.” Bacardi Superior is very light, slightly sweet, dry and clean, perfect for mixing into cocktails, and it goes well in Coke.

The universe of rum is vast with a tremendous number of different kinds of offerings beyond the basic white rum. Bacardi 8 Year Aged Rum is a great way to begin your exploration of rum beyond the standard white rum. It maintains many of the same easy qualities while adding to the mix flavors that come from the aging process.

Bacardi 8 Year Aged Rum has a light and soft nose with vanilla, brown sugar, and the slightest undercurrent of oak spice. The entry is soft and sweet with the vanilla and brown sugar leading and a subtle, charred oak note underneath. The oak spice builds slightly in the midpalate where it picks up the slightest bit of heat for a solid and clean finish.

Bacardi 8 Year Rum performs solidly both as a sipping rum served neat or over rocks, and as a mixing rum. Perhaps the best way to enjoy Bacardi 8 is in an Old Fashioned where the soft and flavorful qualities all come together.

Rum Old Fashioned

2 oz of Bacardi 8 Year Aged Rum
1 sugar cube or 1 tsp of sugar
3 dashes of bitters (Angostura, Cherry, or Chocolate Bitters all work well)
A dash of water or soda water (no more than 1 tsp)
Orange and Lemon Zest

Put the sugar in a glass and add the bitters and water. Stir together until the sugar has completely dissolved. Add the Bacardi 8 Year Rum and ice and stir well (at least 30 stirs). Add both a lemon and orange zest.

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Maker’s 46 is Maker’s Mark on Steroids

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Most companies look at things in terms of brands, which typically means putting out a number of related products under a single brand name. Maker’s Mark has always seen things in terms of products, and they’re one of the few major companies that for years was a single product company. When you referred to Maker’s, you meant one and only thing: Maker’s Mark Bourbon.

Maker’s Mark established itself as a kinder, gentler bourbon – one with a lot of flavor but no kick, no harshness. Critics have often noted that the easier nature of Maker’s comes at the expense of a nice long finish. After running Maker’s Mark as a single product company for over 33 years, Bill Samuels, Jr. decided he wanted to leave behind something new as his legacy. To do this, he set out three criteria that would guide any new product: one, it needs to be yummy; two, it needs to be Maker’s Mark “on steroids”; and, three, it needs to have a long finish. Maker’s Mark was built on the ideal that whiskey could taste better, but a sweet, affable bourbon with a long finish was long considered impossible. Bill Samuels, Jr. really wanted to leave his mark on the bourbon space by figuring out how to accomplish this.

After a tremendous amount of experimentation, Bill Samuels, Jr. along with Master Distiller for Maker’s Mark, Kevin Smith (who is now the head of production for Jim Beam), came up with a way to take Maker’s Mark and build on it. To make Maker’s 46, they take bottle-ready Maker’s Mark and put it back in the barrel along with ten ‘roasted’ French oak staves. The whiskey is given an additional 90 days to age, during which time it takes on a lot of the wonderful qualities of the French oak. The result is a bourbon that is distinctly Maker’s Mark, on steroids.

Maker’s 46 takes all the wonderful front palate flavors of Maker’s Mark, including vanilla, caramel, and light oak, and adds a deeper vanilla note along with deep, sweet, cinnamon. Even though it’s higher proof than Maker’s (94 proof vs. 90 proof), it’s actually soft and easy, and you don’t taste the additional alcohol. With all that flavor, you get a nice long finish. Maker’s Mark has always shined when served neat, over ice, or with a simple mixer. Maker’s 46 expands Maker’s sweet spot, performing much better in cocktails like the Old Fashioned and Manhattan.