5 Reasons the Cocktails You Recreate at Home Are Never as Good as When the Bartender Makes Them

Jovie Belisle
7 min readMay 27, 2020
Photo by David Pennington on Unsplash

We all have those recipes that we just know we make better than anyone else. I’ll admit it. I feel pretty confident that I’m going to like my own Thanksgiving stuffing more than yours. And I’ll try your potato salad to be polite, but so far I have never like anyone else’s more than I like my own.

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Jovie Belisle

Founder of the Spirit Haus Saloon. 35 & Childfree. Copywriter/Herbalist/Bartender. Essays about self-sufficiency, finding balance, and sometimes cocktails.