Your living room might not look like this… but a pink scarf thrown over a lampshade works wonders. Still venturing out? Detroit City Distilleryâ€™s Tasting Room is open Wednesday and Thursday from 6-11 p.m., Friday from 6 p.m.-12 a.m., Saturday from 11 a.m.-12 a.m. add splash of champagne and garnish with lemon peel. simple syrup and ice to a shaker, shake away, then strain into highball glass or champagne flute. On to the drinkâ€¦ add gin, lemon juice, Â½ oz. Let cool completely - thatâ€™s it! Store in a glass container (or recycled and washed plastic bottle, no judgment) in the fridge for up to a month.

Bring 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar to a boil in a small saucepan and let sugar dissolve completely, about three minutes. You wonâ€™t mind having extra - use it for sweetening iced coffee, jazzing up your soda water or, duh, more cocktails. lemon juice, 1 cup sugar, splash of champagne, lemon peel, ice.įirst, make your batch of simple syrup. Missing Detroit City Distillery? Try this Detroit-style French 75. Buy a bottle for yourself at their Whiskey Factory in Eastern Market. Detroit City Distillery makes small-batch whiskey, gin and vodka in-house with locally-sourced ingredients. Somehow, DCD manages to be pretty laid-back for a bar that makes their own spirits - all the proof you need that you can still make classy cocktails, even if youâ€™re just planning to drink in front of your latest Netflix binge. If you donâ€™t have a jigger, 1 Tbsp is equal to Â½ oz. Unless youâ€™ve got a bartenderâ€™s experience, eyeballing it is a great way to make drinks that taste really off or are way too strong, and shot glasses vary in size. But it is worth being a little particular: Theyâ€™re handy, but in a pinch, you can use a travel mug or even a sealed jar strained into a colander. For the most part, these are recipes that can be endlessly tweaked and reinterpreted, whether youâ€™re intentionally experimenting or your liquor cabinet is looking bare.Īnd itâ€™s fine if you donâ€™t have a cocktail shaker. Swap in prosecco for champagne, bourbon for whiskey, skip the garnish if you donâ€™t want to buy a whole pineapple, use whatever glasses are clean - the list goes on.

Get loose! Substitute! For an at-home mixologist, creativity is paramount. Then serve to your housemates, play bartender for a masked, distanced and small gathering, â€œbringâ€ one to a virtual event or plan a signature drink for your next Zoom happy hour (our prediction: virtual hangs will be coming back with a vengeance this winter). Turn down the overhead lights, put on a playlist (or eight hours of bar background noise) for ambience, and make a drink inspired by some of the bars weâ€™re missing most right now. Here are 7 simple drinks easy enough for anyone to whip up at home, to remind you of your home away from home. So if youâ€™re missing your favorite bar, we feel you - and weâ€™ve got you. Winding down with a glass of wine at home is all well and good, but itâ€™s no substitute for happy hour with your colleagues, weekend day drinking with the crew, long talks with a BFF or new Tinder match until last call or even the chance run-ins with acquaintances and strangers out on a Friday night.Â Â Â Â And thatâ€™s what we really miss, right? The barstools we have dibs on at our local dives, our favorite bartenders who serve up craft cocktails as good as the advice and, of course, the people. And weâ€™re all apparently indulging in that feeling: alcohol sales have been up during the pandemic, with a spike as we coped with election anxiety - one booze delivery company reported a 75% jump in sales last Tuesday.īut with COVID-19 cases making their own surge in Michigan and colder weather making patio drinking less and less appealing, the drinking out options are dwindling. If there was ever a year that made you think, â€œman, I could use a drink,â€ 2020 is it. For a bit of a Mutiny Bar vibe… make a painkiller cocktail By Lauren Daniels

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