Haamonii (harmony) ShochuLow calorie cocktails – only 35 calories per serving

The SF Station VIP Haamonii cocktail party at Chambers Eat + Drink was a success! Great drinks, great people, and a great venue. We couldn’t have asked for a better time. Check out some of the photos courtesy of SF Station.

Everyone had a good time thanks to the complimentary Haamonii cocktails and tastings. These wonderful ladies got a chance to try the Rickshaw and Indian Summer.

The event couldn’t have happened at a more happening venue and we take the saying at Chamber’s to heart… we will always Be Amazing.

See more photos of the event here:

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Check out more events at www.SFStation.com and be sure to check out Chambers Eat + Drink.

Shochu has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s “Food for Men” section! Clean tasting, low in calories, and still under the radar in the U.S., Shochu was introduced as an up and coming spirit that any man can enjoy.

We hope the trend continues to catch on!

Check out the article here:

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/what-is-shochu-1111

Infusions have officially become legal in California… and it’s like celebrating the end of Prohibition all over again! Who would have thought that it would take so long to legalize infusions? Every sangria you’ve had before was a crime! Now that we are no longer outlaws we should celebrate… with one of Arnold Wong’s Cinnamon Rooibus Haamonii Infusion.

Bold, spicy, and sweet, Arnold has created the perfect infusion to excite your palette and quench your thirst for alcoholic liberation.

Freedom never tasted so good.

Cinnamon rooibus infused Haamoni, calvados, lemon & cardomon bitters.

Check out our VIP Tasting Kit that we had recently sent out! Complete with all the ingredients to make two delicious Haamonii cocktails including a jigger, shaker, and hand held citrus juicer. We hope to be sending out more of these soon.

Included is are two bottles of Haamonii, a bottle of Simple Syrup, Canton, Grapefruit Bitters, St. Germain Elderflower, Shaker, Jigger,

Haamonii and SF Station cordially invite you for a free VIP cocktail party at Chambers Eat + Drink in San Francisco!

Please join us for a complimentary cocktail tasting as well as our drawing to win 2 tickets to Cirque du Soleil: TOTEM and a Haamonii VIP cocktail party for you and 25 of your closest friends!

Eventbrite:

http://bit.ly/VIPCocktail

Connect with Haamonii and SF Station on Facebook to see who is going!

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Also be sure to check out SF Station, your guide to art, events, and music in San Francisco

http://www.sfstation.com

Preview Chambers Eat + Drink

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Enjoy some cocktails, make friends, win prizes, and most important of all… Share Haamonii!

Celebrity Executive Chef Arnold Wong of E&O Trading Company has created stunning and delicious cocktails with Haaomii Shochu. Arnold Wong says, “Haamonii is an ideal, excellent base for infusions; smooth, high quality, light and not too dry”.

Hey Haamonii fans!

Are you a bartender? Are you a waiter or waitress? Do you know the owner of a bar or restaurant? If so, this is an easy reward for you to win.

For every restaurant or bar in the SAN FRANCISCO bay area that you introduce to us to the owner/buyer and for each 1 case of Haamonii Shochu they buy, we will reward you $30.

Click the Link below to sign up and earn $30!

http://bit.ly/nEb0iM

I was recently reminded that I adore Shirley Temples, a childhood favorite of mine that I haven’t thought of in years. I quite impulsively went out and immediately purchased the necessary ingredients for Shirley Temples: 7-Up, Grenadine, and Maraschino cherries.  I anxiously mixed up this concoction and dove in.. unfortunately to be disappointed in a similar way to when I tried to eat pop-tarts, spaghetti-os, and Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese after having “grown up.”  But I wasn’t willing to let this thing that I loved so much go quietly into the night.  No no.  I have since come up with a second Golden Rule:

Everything is better when it’s spiked!

I also went out and found some grenadine that isn’t reddish-colored corn syrup with some citric acid and “flavors.”  Stirrings Grenadine is made of real crushed pomegranate seeds.  It makes a significant difference, believe you-me.

Without further ado, here it is:

Haamonii Shirley Temple, Not Just for Kids Anymore
Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:
2 oz Haamonii Smooth Shochu
1 oz Stirrings Grenadine
3 oz 7-Up Diet Soda
2 Maraschino Cherries

In a tall glass, pour the Haamonii Shochu over ice.  Top with grenadine.  Drop in cherries, pour the Diet 7-Up Soda over the cherries.  Garnish with swivel stick or tall spoon for stirring.

Only 85 calories in this awesome throw back cocktail, as compared to 180 when made with premium vodka and regular soda.

Spring has officially sprung in San Francisco. Everything is green instead of brown, flowers are blooming, and it’s 60 degrees outside instead of 40. Berries are also coming into season, which means walking past the corner produce market is torturous, due to the ripe berries sending out their tentacles of delicious smells to hook the unwary passersby.

For this week’s cocktail, I broke down and gave into the berries. Raspberries, specifically.

Now I don’t know about you, but I’ve always loved Lindemann’s Framboise Lambic beer. It was the first “beer” I was ever able to drink and there is something about it’s deep pinkish purple color that draws me in. I also promised a reader a few weeks ago to follow up my “Seppuku Bomb” with something beer-based that was a little less “frat boy” and a little more “day in the park.”

I came up with this. Hope you enjoy!

The Haamonii Red Velvet
Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:

2 oz Haamonii Smooth Shochu
1 oz Haamonii Smooth Lemon
3 oz Framboise Lambic Beer (raspberry Belgian), chilled
2 oz Prosecco or other sparkling wine, chilled
.5 oz Chambord Raspberry Liqueur
5 ripe raspberries

In a tall glass, pour in both measures of Haamonii Shochu and the Chambord Liqueur. Drop in the raspberries and muddle until crushed. Pour in lambic beer, mix with bar spoon. Float sparkling wine on top. Garnish with more raspberries or as desired.

Only 165 calories in this sweet springtime cocktail as compared to 290 calories when made with premium vodka.

This week’s cocktail is inspired by my current fight against an upper respiratory bug and scratchy throat. It’s not so bad as to be completely debilitating, but plenty bad enough to be damn irritating. Being sick/not running at 100% makes me endlessly grumpy (I readily admit to it).

So I was trying to decide what to make for this week’s cocktail, and I was irritated because all I’ve been able to drink/taste/smell for the past several days has been hot tea. I decided to try and create a cocktail that would make me feel better (amazingly enough, I actually succeeded) and thus begot a cocktail that combines the power of tea and alcohol to soothe a ragged throat (and spirit). Additionally, it doesn’t taste like those god-awful concoctions my grandfather used to make me drink (bonus!). So drink up and celebrate (temporarily) grump-tastic folks like me with this week’s cocktail.

The Haamonii Shochu Grumpy Old Man
Makes 1 cocktail

Ingredients:
2 oz Haamonii Smooth Shochu
2 oz Numi Puerh Black Tea
1/2 oz Kaluha
1/2 oz 1% Milk

In a glass of your choosing, pour the Haamonii Shochu and Puerh tea over ice. Measure in the Kaluha first and the milk as the last layer. Serve with a swivel stick for stirring!

Only 165 calories in this delicious, spirit-lifting cocktail as compared to 260 calories when made with premium vodka.