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Posts tagged “Gibson”

Favorite Spring Cocktail: Gibsons - with Ramps!
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

Take a Martini, that sublime mixture of cool, crisp gin and dry vermouth, and garnish it with a pickled onion instead of a green olive. Now you have a Gibson. But what if that delicately savory, cru...

Product Review: TRU2 Organic Gin
Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits

I’m a big fan of gin - and of the Slow Food approach to mixing drinks - so when I heard about the launch of TRU2 Organic Gin this fall, I was eager to test-drive this new arrival. Before the bottle...

Straight Up: How to Make the Best Ice Cubes for Summer Cocktails

With the mercury tickling the top of the thermometer this week, today at Straight Up, it's All About Ice. All ice cubes are not created equal. And while you might not know it, these little frozen blo...

Straight Up: DIY Cocktail Onions

There's nothing like the briny crunch of a cocktail onion to complement a Gibson's bracing coolness (in fact, garnished any other way, the drink would just be called a Martini). We like to leave ours ...