Shaker & Spoon, a DIY cocktail subscription box, has released the spoilers for their August 2024 box! Shaker & Spoon Cocktail Club is a monthly cocktail mixers, recipes, tools, and ingredients subscription box!
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The theme is New Frontiers 3: Forever Forward!
Brat summer continues apace, as the season of green chartreuse–shaded iconography and cheerfully messy fun in the sun sets its sights on going out with a BANG!
To cap off this moment of frivolously coloring outside the lines of life, we’ve summoned a spirit category that’s no stranger to challenging conventions and charting the course to places of limitless potential: novel American whiskey. It’s not bourbon, it’s not rye, it’s not Tennessee whiskey—this is a younger category all its own that can vary greatly from bottle to bottle, as distillers can look to their imaginations for the blueprint of their ideal whiskey rather than to government-regulated mash bills.
Some American whiskeys are based around hyper-local grains or apply their experiments to aging, while many others arrive at their final destination as meticulously balanced blends of bourbon, rye, and corn or wheat whiskeys. Boundless, innovative, and unable to be replicated, the bottle of American whiskey you procure for our upcoming New Frontiers 3: Forever Forward Box is a singular artistic expression that takes all styles into account and represents years of trial, error, and now reward.
After all this tinkering on the distilling side, how about some cocktails that embody the same pioneering spirit?! The drinks of New Frontiers 3: Forever Forward—like our bold and bratty starring spirit—all began with strong and specific inspirations, turned up the volume from there, and will arrive to you in fabulously fresh form. Subscribe now through August 31 (while supplies last!) to get yours—it’s slated to ship the week of September 3.
Here’s a sneak peek:
What if there were a way to nod to years growing up in the Middle East with one’s next drinkable delight? Imagine a particular pitted wonder that could provide a juicy and vivid view into the region’s culture! These ideas and more were on Leah Moss’s mind as she mapped out the next great American whiskey sour, and they’ll be satisfied quite efficiently on the day When Apricots Fly. Making the most of the fleeting fresh fruit’s very short window of viability can be vexing—as many in the region are aware. Much less improbable, though, is how delicious apricots can be when they bestow their well-rounded brightness to a classic coupe along with lemon, apple, and a hint of honey and vanilla!
Leah has been tending bar in NYC for more than twenty years and is passionate about combining common flavors in uncommon ways. She won Speed Rack Tristate 2019 and the 2019 NY Cocktail Expo’s Best Cocktail of the Year. In her spare time she enjoys painting, metalwork, and gardening.
Sother Teague and Arnold Palmer—the deliciousness from a partnership such as this is certainly a Fore!-gone conclusion. Whether or not you love the links, an iced tea–lemonade combo will handily beat all kinds of heat. The drink’s simplest form, however, is a bit like mini golf when compared to all-pro version Arnold’s Fist. Sign up for your very own tea time with this quencher of whiskey, freshly brewed chai, Sother’s grenadine, and lemon to hit a harmonious botanical-driven hole in one!
Sother is the beverage director at New York’s Amor y Amargo and host of The Speakeasy on Heritage Radio Network. In 2018, he was honored with Wine Enthusiast’s Mixologist of the Year Award, and he has authored two books, I’m Just Here for the Drinks and Let’s Get Blitzen, and created Driftwood Bitters and Garden Party Bitters. Catch up on all the Sother favorites in the S&S catalog, including The Weekender, Ash and Elm, Rye-napple Express, Dragon Tears, and Slippery Slopes.
Salted butter fat–washed whiskey, charred pepper–honey syrup, corn-infused Angostura bitters, and a walnut spritz—any guesses?! It must be a perfect pone of Cornbread Old Fashioned that an oven-mitted Sharon Yeung is serving up. With this cocktail that plays on whiskey’s grain-based makeup, she’s constructed a mind-bending maize of corn-on-corn flavors for us to happily get lost in. Corny wordplay aside, within a sip you’ll experience a rich texture on the palate, touches of smokey heat, and a stiff whiskey kick—sounds like great down-home cocktail cookin’ to us!
Sharon is the cofounder of Daijoubu Pop Up, with dreams of one day operating a broth and condiment empire. She currently resides in Seattle and tends bar at the James Beard–nominated Walrus and the Carpenter, as well as their amari focused sister bar, Barnacle.
Each month you’ll get 3 unique recipes by top bartenders + everything you need to make 12 drinks (4 from each recipe) other than the liquor—syrups, bitters, mixers, garnishes & more. You’ll be exposed to new flavors & combos, and look at your liquor cabinet in a whole new way. Subscribe today & be your own bartender + the tastemaker in your circle!
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