Tag: Mixology

Author and High Priestess of Home Mixology, Lindsay Merbaum, Interviewed by Leona Godin

aromatica poetica August 12, 2022

Lindsay Merbaum is a witchy writer and high priestess of home mixology crafting cocktails/mocktails inspired by the moods and themes of contemporary reads. As soon as our mutual writer friend, Jess deCourcy Hinds, introduced us, this interview was fated. Lindsay’s thoughtful responses to our questions brings together so many of the things we at Aromatica Poetica hold dear: writing, scent, mixology, botanical diversity, books, creativity, magic, and more. Leona Godin, our founding editor, interviewed her via email. Aromatica Poetica: …

Hogarth's Gin Lane, featuring 18th century drunk and dead people, at the center of which stands a large cucumber budding roses, with a spigot and jug, and juniper trees going down the lane.

Hendrick’s Cucumber: A Hydrosol gin cocktail experiment

aromatica poetica April 30, 2018

I’ve been obsessed with gin on the one hand and hydrosols on the other for a little while now, and mixing them together seemed only natural, though they may strike the uninitiated as strange bedfellows. Hydrosols and alcohols (as well as essential oils) are all distilled. So what is distillation? Simply put–which is about all I can manage since I’m no scientist, distillation is the heating of a liquid to create steam in order to separate out substances. Different substances …