Cocktail Recipe: Gin-ger Tea

Gin: it’s not just for summer, and this spicy treat makes for a refreshing start to a heavy winter meal. We prefer it with our award-winning Gin Twenty-One (available at our bottle shop, online, or in over 30 LCBO locations across Ontario), but you could mix it up with our barrel-aged Golden Gin as well. […]

Cocktail Recipe: Dark n’ Stormy

Ontario gets awfully hot, hazy, and humid in the summertime, which calls for crisp, refreshing cocktails at your backyard gatherings. The Dark n’ Stormy is super easy to make, and isn’t well known, so it’s an excellent secret weapon to surprise your friends. The subtle tropical flavours of our Blackstrap Rum make for an interesting […]

Cocktail Recipe: Blackstrap Mojito

Hot summer nights call for a cool, refreshing mojito. This one is made with our Blackstrap, which is a new-make rum that we can’t call a rum because it hasn’t been aged for the minimum one year required by food labeling laws. It’s also really good with our aged Blackstrap Rum, where the barrel aging […]

Cocktail Recipe: Irish Ginger

For everyone who loves a good whisky cocktail, which by now we just assume that everyone we know does, this one’s a keeper. Thanks to our friend Michael Smith for playing around with our limited-release Stout Spirit to come up with this one. This batch of Stout Spirit is a limited release of 420 bottles, […]

Cocktail Recipe: The Vaughan

Introducing “The Vaughan” cocktail. This robust, spirit-forward cocktail strikes a fine balance between bitter and sweetness, much the same way you’ll find in a good Negroni. It’s a shout out to our home town, and a showcase for one of our signature spirits – Darker Side. It’s also perfectly in season for spring – which […]

Cocktail Recipe: Mexican Mule

A spicy twist on a refreshing classic, makes it a little better suited to cool fall afternoons. This one we formulated for a cooking & cocktails class at the awesome Dish Cooking Studio on College Street in Toronto, to accompany the food of chef Francisco Alejandri. Level of difficulty: easy peasy lemon (or lime) squeezy. […]

Cocktail Recipe: Blackstrap Brooklynite

A little taste of summer to brighten your February thaw, this cocktail comes to us courtesy of Chip Dykstra, aka the Rum Howler – one of the most prolific and well-regarded rum critics in Canada. The Brooklynite cocktail appears to have arrived on the scene in the 1940s in Brooklyn, New York. It appears in […]