While often eclipsed by spirits like gin or whiskey, brandy can provide a delicious boozy base, too. Distilled since the Middle Ages — an early favorite of American colonists — the spirit appeared in ...

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At a time when more forthright cocktails like the old fashioned, the Sazerac and rocket-fuel martinis hold sway, you won’t win tough-guy points for ordering a Brandy Alexander. You know: cognac, cream ...