[10-Mar-2026 16:43:24 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/riveted/public_html/wp-content/themes/chosen/inc/customizer.php:4 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/riveted/public_html/wp-content/themes/chosen/inc/customizer.php on line 4 [10-Mar-2026 16:43:37 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function add_action() in /home/riveted/public_html/wp-content/themes/chosen/inc/scripts.php:43 Stack trace: #0 {main} thrown in /home/riveted/public_html/wp-content/themes/chosen/inc/scripts.php on line 43 Captive Spirits Big Gin – Riveted http://www.riveted-blog.com Wed, 08 Jun 2016 23:20:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 https://i0.wp.com/www.riveted-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/cropped-riveted_favicon.png?fit=32%2C32 Captive Spirits Big Gin – Riveted http://www.riveted-blog.com 32 32 112264036 Last Night’s Cocktail: The Big Gin Vesper http://www.riveted-blog.com/2013/08/last-nights-cocktail-the-big-gin-vesper/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=last-nights-cocktail-the-big-gin-vesper Thu, 15 Aug 2013 13:18:49 +0000 http://www.riveted-blog.com/last-nights-cocktail-the-big-gin-vesper Continue ReadingLast Night’s Cocktail: The Big Gin Vesper]]> We've been substituting manhattans or vespers when we feel like a martini…just to mix things up a bit. We hate to be predictable. 

This is our recent favorite…I call it the Big Gin Vesper. A vesper is typically gin, vodka, and Lillet and originated in the 1953 James Bond novel Casino Royale. You can geek out on the history of the cocktail here.

We've had the standard one and it's good, but we decided to try it using a new gin we got when we went up to the distiller's festival (Proof) in Seattle a month or so ago. We don't often drink gin, but this gin is bourbon-barreled gin, and we DO drink bourbon, so we thought we'd give it a shot. Bourbon Barreled Big Gin by Captive Spirits. It's good. 

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Anyway, here it is: The Big Gin Vesper

3 measures of Bourbon Barreled Big Gin
1 measure of vodka (we used Tito's handmade this time…it's what we had in the Airstream freezer)
1/2 measure of Lillet

Shake over ice and pour into cold martini glasses. Garnish with a large slice of lemon peel.

Cheers!

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