Most rum cocktails are bright and tropical, and you can find plenty of those around town. Mix those two together, add fresh blackberry, lemon, and soda, and you’ve got an agreeable spring drink for all. Elderflower liqueur is a light, floral, fragrant that tastes like a field and pairs perfectly with gin. Gin and elderflower go together like milk and cookies. Wise Men Distillery | 4717 Broadmoor Ave. In this drink’s case, that means honey sage syrup, ginger syrup, lemon, and lapsang, a smoky black tea. This makes for a balanced spirit that plays nice with other herbals.
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Gin is known for being chock full of botanicals and herbs, and Eastern Kille’s Barrel-Finished Gin kicks it up a notch with notes of Citra hops and oak. Bold, smokey, layered - perfect.Įastern Kille Distillery | 700 Ottawa Ave. Donkey starts with a nice, approachable mezcal, then adds velvet falernum, a tropical liqueur, and Aperol, a popular Italian aperitif that makes the drink nice and bright orange. This drink is the perfect introduction to mezcal, tequila’s smokier cousin, which often finds its way into cocktails. At MeXo, they kick the classic marg up a notch, using Cabrito Blanco tequila, Bauchant orange liqueur, housemade limonada, and citrus salt, all shaken tableside.ĭonkey | 665 Wealthy St. That said, an expertly made margarita remains one of the greatest drinks of all time. Tequila has such a distinct and bold flavor, it’s not used nearly as often in cocktails as most other spirits. It’s a straightforward, tropical delight. Strawberry and pineapple infused Lake Life Vodka is mixed with, simple syrup, yuzu juice, bitters, soda water, and basil. The other popular direction to go with vodka is fruit, and this cocktail from New Holland is a veritable cornucopia. New Holland Saugatuck | 201 Culver St., Saugatuck It’s paired with lemon juice, orgeat syrup, soda water and mint leaves, resulting in an intensely refreshing twist on a vodka-soda. The main ingredient is Green Door’s vodka, triple-distilled with 100% Michigan-grown corn. This is one of those cocktails that really lets the spirit do the talking. So belly up to the bar, pick your poison and enjoy one of these masterful cocktails nearby: If you want a cocktail that does unique and interesting things with a spirit you know and love, we have that too! If you’re looking for an easy entry point to a spirit you typically don’t imbibe, West Michigan has that. Mixed drinks range from having every type of alcohol imaginable to putting one specific spirit in the spotlight, and the latter is what we’re interested in today. These are enthusiastic experts who read, study and experiment with cocktails all the time to craft unique and exciting drinks.
Lucky for us, West Michigan is full of distilleries, cocktail bars, and restaurants with master mixologists at the helm. Accordingly, Durand adjusted his fastidious approach to natural forms, such as the rocky ledge and overhanging tree limbs, to suggest Keats's poetic references to "nature's observatory" and "boughs pavillion'd." Aside from its historical significance, the painting embodies the marriage of naturalism and idealization central to Hudson River School aesthetics.Every spirit holds the potential to shine - all it needs is the right cocktail. Invoking a phrase from John Keats's seventh sonnet, "O Solitude," Sturges asked Durand to portray Cole and Bryant together as "kindred spirits" in the landscape. Sturges gave the painting to Bryant in honor of the eulogy the poet delivered at the memorial service for Cole, who died in February 1848. Durand was Cole's earliest disciple and a close friend of Bryant, and executed this picture at the request of Jonathan Sturges, a patron of both artists.
The men stand on a ledge in one of the cloves, or gorges, of the Catskill Mountains, the source of the landscapes that made Cole famous and continued to inspire his followers. Its subjects are Thomas Cole (with portfolio), the founding father of the school, and William Cullen Bryant, the well-known nature poet and editor. Kindred Spirits is the quintessential Hudson River School landscape.
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