[On the Road]: Après Handcrafted Libations

Hi Uncle Steve,

Least you think that there is any correlation between the quality of an establishment and the length of time it takes me to write a review, let me dispel them. 

In late March, I had the pleasure of taking a quick jaunt out to Breckenridge, Colorado for a ski trip with my sister. On my first day out, while still waiting for her arrival, I had the pleasure of visiting Après Handcrafted Libations, whose drinks are as good as its name is long.

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It's always difficult to write a review for what is essentially a bar (and for things that are bars). It is necessarily a subset of what I generally write about and, as such, has a far more limited vocabulary and well of experience from which to draw upon. And I don't think, for Après, I'll even bother trying to review the cocktail the bartender improvised for me (other than to say it was an old fashioned with maple syrup and four kinds of house-made bitters, including their famous and tongue-tingling habanero bitters). 

Instead, I think a general commendation to Vaughn and the others at Après is all I can offer. After speaking with them at length, and drinking the bartender's improvisation, I think I can state definitively that these guys are pushing the envelope. If they were so inclined, they would be at or very near the absolute top of the bartending scene in a larger market such as Miami. 

You may take this as a blanket endorsement.