Home Brewed Mead from Wild Honey Ok, maybe we’re not creating a spirit here, but we are brewing something up from scratch. We’re taking advantage of Thailand’s low price, high quality honey to homebrew mead, which we’ll drink straight and also use in cocktails like The Bee’s Shortcut. Location A local market in Kanchanaburi next […]
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Thai Rum, Thai Mead, and Japanese Botanicals This is a stirred, spirit-forward cocktail that sits somewhere between a Rum Sour and a botanical-driven cocktail. It uses homemade mead as a low-ABV “softener” for the rum, resulting in a drink that has more weight and texture than a standard cocktail but isn’t as heavy as a
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A Rum Sour with a Thai Twist Rum drinks in Thailand have a reputation (not always undeserved) for being both exceptionally sweet and very likely to land you with a tremendous hangover. Phraya Elements deserves a better fate than that, so we’ve thrown out the obligatory pineapple slice and given it a starring role in
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A Shiso Mojito from Bangkok’s Little Japan This cocktail is a sophisticated riff on the Mojito, reimagined through a Japanese lens using local Thai ingredients found right in our neighborhood. By swapping traditional mint for the peppery, anise-like notes of shiso and leaning on Chalong Bay’s grassy, agricole-style rum, the drink bridges a classic tropical
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