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Best Apple Brandies -Dial a Drink Kenya
Posted in Kenya, dial a drink by Simon
Best Apple Brandies -Dial a Drink Kenya
What is an Apple brandy? As we know a brandy is a liquor made from fermented grape juice and we have different of brandies where Apple brandy is one of them. Apple brandy is typically made with cider apples (instead of grapes), but it can also be made with pears grown in the same region. Apple brandies are classified in two new and old brandies, where in America the brandies produced are made with sweet eating apples to make new brandies and in France uses bitter and sour apples which is mostly known for distilling Calvados, the classic Normandy brandy.
Simple Cocktail Recipes to Try at Home-Dial a Drink Kenya
Posted in Kenya, Whisky, dial a drink by Simon
Simple Cocktail Recipes to Try at Home-Dial a Drink Kenya
It is the small things we do that makes us happy but doing things that seems impossible or changing the source of the good moments like making a cocktail at home especially for our loved once makes us even happier. In this article, you will find various cocktail recipes you can make at home at anytime with few and simple ingredients.
Sidecar Cocktail Recipe
Posted in Kenya by Simon
Sidecar cocktail is the most famous of all classic cognac drinks up to date. It was likely invented around World War 1. There a lot of unsure stories of when or who started the making of this cocktail, but this entrancing mixture of brandy or cognac, lemon juice, and orange liqueur started making the rounds in the most fashionable watering holes in London and Paris during the 1920s.
The sidecar is complex enough in flavor to satisfy even the driest palate. Sidecar are considered more of a challenge for bartenders because the proportion of ingredients is more difficult to balance from liqueurs of variable sweetness.
Brandy cocktails Recipes
Posted in Kenya, Whisky, dial a drink by Esther
Brandies are a key ingredient in many classic cocktails. Here are the most common mixed drinks made using brandy;
Vieux Carre
Metropolitan
Sidercar
Brandy Cocktail
Brandy Alexander
Marzipan Old fashioned
Easy sangria
Toffee apple sour
Types of Brandy in Kenya- Dial a Drink Kenya
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Types of Brandy in Kenya- Dial a Drink Kenya
Brandy comes from the Dutch word “brandewijn” meaning ‘burned wine”. Brandy are distilled spirits that are made from fermentation of fruit juices. The most common fruits used are apple grapes and pears. It can also be made from apricots, apples, and cherries. There is a little difference between brandy and cognac though people see them as the same. Brandy is any liquor that is made from fermented juice while cognac is liquor made from grape juice, where in simple terms all cognacs are brandy while not all brandies are cognacs. Brandy has a fruity and subtle sweet taste with flavor notes of oak since it is aged in wooden casks. Any brandy that is aged has a mellow and a complex taste. Brandies that are aged more than two years are classified as matured brandies while those aged less than two years are classified as unaged brandy.
Best Brandies to Drink in 2022
Posted in Kenya, dial a drink by Simon
Best Brandies to Drink in 2022
Brandy are distilled spirits that are made from fermentation of fruit juices. And like most major categories of spirit, there are a variety of different styles to choose from. From unaged eaux-de-vie to the long- aged Armagnacs and cognac.
List of Strongest Alcoholic liquor in the World
Posted in Kenya, Whisky, Nairobi, Delivery, dial a drink by Simon
List of Strongest Alcoholic liquor in the World
We all know a lot of liquor with ABV (alcohol by volume) from 5% and above but there are some liquors classified as special strong liquor since they contain over 80% ABV. Most of these liquors are not wines but vodka, whiskeys, rums and absinthe.
Drinks with low alcohol percentage advisable for binge-drinkers
Posted in Kenya by Simon
What is binge -drinking
Binge-Drinkers or binge drinking is the partaking of alcohol in small quantities but more than twice or more times in the day.
Most binge-drinkers are from the age of 20-30 years and 50-80 years.
Tanqueray cocktails/dial a drink Kenya
Posted in Kenya, dial a drink by Simon
Tanqueray Lodon dry gin gins can be prepared in different cocktails such as,Tanqueray and tonic cocktail and Tanqueray and tonic with lemon & Raspberry