Sentence examples for a base spirit from inspiring English sources

Choose a base spirit.

Brandy is also used as a base spirit in the production of another type of distilled liquor, the liqueur.

It also reminded me of the delicate balance of a base spirit and what rounds it out.

Each will contribute a cocktail to the bar's opening menu, with a name inspired by Grace O'Malley and a base spirit suggested by Mr. McDonald.

A year or so later, I told a bartender about my experience and he looked at me funny and said, "You drank it wrong!" He explained Campari is an ingredient in a cocktail, not the base spirit and convinced me to try a Negroni.

Somehow, whiskey seemed an obvious choice for base spirit, and the whiskey would be rye.

The botanicals are thus kept to a minimum to let the base spirit shine through.

"But it does tend to disguise whatever the base spirit is.

The base spirit of Swedish punsch is Batavia arrack, the southeastern Asian liquor derived from sugar cane and red rice.

"We use gin in our martinis," Callan says, "and we try not to throw anything off the base spirit too much.

He found both Prosecco and Korbel Extra Dry performed nicely as the sparkling wine in his concoction, and for the gin — given Keats's British heritage, what other base spirit would have been appropriate?