{"id":2450857,"date":"2019-11-07T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315618"},"modified":"2019-11-07T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:00:00","slug":"libations-punching-up-friends-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/libations-punching-up-friends-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Libations: Punching up Friends-giving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In my pre-Aspen life, I didn\u2019t care much for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

My mom doesn\u2019t really like turkey or leftovers, so growing up Thanksgiving was treated as a less important holiday where my family would typically go out to eat.<\/p>\n

But now that I\u2019m in Aspen, I have a lot to be excited about surrounding Thanksgiving and, to be honest, I\u2019m already looking forward to the holiday.<\/p>\n

Besides the fact that opening day for Aspen Mountain and Snowmass is scheduled for Nov. 28 (provided they don\u2019t open early), I\u2019ve started to feed off others\u2019 enthusiasm for the holiday in this town and have discovered just how fun Friends-giving can be.<\/p>\n

In fact, I\u2019m anticipating this year\u2019s Turkey Day so much so that I\u2019ve started plotting when I\u2019m going to do trial runs of the new recipes I\u2019m making for Friends-giving this year. (All the food websites I frequent recommend testing new recipes before making them for a crowd, so after one of the pies I made last year didn\u2019t turn out, I\u2019m going to take the recommendation.)<\/p>\n

One recipe I\u2019m extra excited to test early is for a festive libation called The Hippocras Punch.<\/p>\n

According to Wikipedia, Hippocras is a drink made from wine that is steeped with sugar and spices and originated in the Roman Empire. The drink was also the inspiration for sangria.<\/p>\n

This rendition from the good folks over at Hendrick\u2019s Gin takes the drink into a punch format, which is perfect to keep a Thanksgiving crowd happy, and adds my personal liquor favorite: gin, of course.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis hot punch is the perfect fall drink to share with friends and family at your next holiday party,\u201d said Sebastien Derbomez, the national brand ambassador for Hendrick\u2019s Gin and a recognizable face in Aspen from events such as the Apres Ski Cocktail Classic. \u201cCombining white wine, spices, orange peels and exotic pineapple with our lovely Hendrick\u2019s botanicals, this warm beverage is guaranteed to surprise and delight your guests!\u201d<\/p>\n

Since The Hippocras Punch is served warm, it seems just right for those coming from the mountain to the dinner table.<\/p>\n

Additionally, I think it would work well during pre-turkey dinner appetizers or after the main feast as the herbs in Hendrick\u2019s Gin, specifically juniper berries, can aid in digestion, which means more room for dessert.<\/p>\n

The flavor profile of the punch, according to Derbomez, \u201cis light and fruity with a hint of spice,\u201d and sounds like a perfect accompaniment for any flavor that comes with a Thanksgiving meal.<\/p>\n

The ingredients will be easy to source in Aspen, so I think the most difficult part of making this is going to be finding someone who has a punch bowl that I can borrow \u2026<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In my pre-Aspen life, I didn\u2019t care much for Thanksgiving. My mom doesn\u2019t really like turkey or leftovers, so growing up Thanksgiving was treated as a less important holiday where my family would typically go out to eat. But now that I\u2019m in Aspen, I have a lot to be excited about surrounding Thanksgiving and, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 07:58:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}