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Ginger nut chai Penicillin 🫚 🍯 🥃 Another mighty fine example of tea and booze coming together to make something beautifu...
13/08/2026

Ginger nut chai Penicillin 🫚 🍯 🥃

Another mighty fine example of tea and booze coming together to make something beautiful 🫖

60ml Nectarosity
22.5ml fresh lemon juice
15ml T2 Tea Ginger nut chai syrup*
10ml honey syrup

Shaken hard, double strained into an old fashioned glass over a rock of ice. Float 10-15ml of Peat Monster on top, garnish with a pinch of the loose leaf tea, char it for extra flare 🔥

*10g of tea, 100g of sugar, 100g of water. Bring to a rolling boil while constantly stirring, leave to cool, strain, bottle, refrigerate.

11/08/2026

We all know I love a Penicillin, so when I tasted some ginger nut chai from T2 Tea I just knew I had to incorporate it into a Penicillin!

I’ve done a Penicillin Highball, Penicillin with Nikka whisky only, a Classic Laddie and Octomore Penicillin, and now, a Ginger nut Chai Penicillin. Not only does this version have a little twist with the tea, but it’s also pretty damn close to using the original bottles that Sam Ross used when he created the drink at Milk & Honey.

It’s said that it was the Asyla used as the base, and Peat Monster on top. In this case, ours is with Nectarosity as the base, with the original Peat Monster on top. With some extra dimension and spice from the ginger nut chai syrup, and the charred tea garnish, this makes for one hell of a cocktail 🍯 💨

Last chance to try 59 Chrystie St, a Starward New Old Fashioned cocktail. Still pouring at Home of the negroni until Sun...
02/07/2026

Last chance to try 59 Chrystie St, a Starward New Old Fashioned cocktail.

Still pouring at Home of the negroni until Sunday.



STARWARD WHISKY

21/06/2026

Do you have a decanter for your whisky? Do you know if you’re using it right?

Decanters look amazing, but they aren’t the best option for permanently storing your precious whisky!

I’ve realised this the hard way, in my early days of getting into whisky I had a bottle of Glenfiddich IPA edition that I transferred into a decanter. After about 2 months I started to think the whisky tasted flat, slightly metallic, boring. I thought I didn’t like that whisky, but I was so wrong.

Now I’ll use a decanter for big, bold, dense whiskies that I prefer once they’ve opened up a touch, or just a whisky to share with friends and finish in one sitting.

Do you like to put your whisky into a decanter?

11/06/2026

Have you seen this type of glass before? We call it the Midleton glass, because we first saw them and bought them at the Midleton Distillery. We’ve come to realise that they are actually ‘fruit spirit’ glasses, and they are just immaculate! Maybe the best whisky glass out there, especially for cask strength whisky or peated whisky.

If you want to know where to source them from, DM us and we can share the link 🥃

Hojicha x Whisky Highball w/ Black Sesame Foam 🫖 🥃 🫧 For International Tea Day I wanted to share this little number I wh...
21/05/2026

Hojicha x Whisky Highball w/ Black Sesame Foam 🫖 🥃 🫧

For International Tea Day I wanted to share this little number I whipped up. It’s a simple concept really, I love drinking whisky, I love drinking highballs, and if I’m not drinking either of those, I love drinking tea. It just makes sense to now mash them altogether to create something that combines the best of all worlds.

Hojicha is my preferred tea to drink if I feel like a whisky but am having a dry week, to me it shares many similar qualities to a good dram. I’ve taken a cold brew Hojicha tea and carbonated it to create a hojicha soda, mixed that with a touch of maple syrup, a split base of Nikka Days and Nikka Yoichi and topped it off with some black sesame foam.

A superb combination of flavours, expressed with simplicity.



15/05/2026

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A Paper Plane is the perfect example of a cocktail that doesn’t need syrup to be balanced with citrus. An equal parts cocktail that calls for bourbon, Aperol, Amaro Nonino and lemon juice. Opting for the Jack Daniels Bonded is the perfect way to give this drink just a little more bass, and lean into the richer, more caramel and oak forward characteristics.



12/05/2026

What makes the perfect whisky drinking glass?

Usually an ideal glass will have a bulbous half at the bottom of the glass where the whisky can move around and breathe, while the top half tapers up and is a bit more narrow. This design brings out the best in your whisky, allowing a lot of flavours and aromas to open up and be precisely directed to your nose, and then delivered into a targeted area on your palate. Glasses like a Glencairn glass or a Copita glass are perfect examples!

Less chaos, less misdirection, more good whisky bits!

04/05/2026

Happy Star Wars Day ✨ 🥃

Starward for Star Wars Day 🪐

03/05/2026

The glassware that you choose to drink your whisky out of matters! It changes how you smell and taste your dram. We are looking at the Old Fashioned glass and what it’s best for when drinking your whisky 🥃

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