After more than 12 hours spent traveling, we were in a bit of a daze but easily decided to purchase a third LACK coffee table in dark brown, because it was familiar and reliable. Just enough time to release our two cats from their carriers, who promptly planted their flags in a makeshift litter box, before we were whooshed off to the IKEA in Sindelfingen to choose all of the furnishings we thought we'd need to outfit our new home. When we landed in Germany, we were briefly introduced to our new apartment for maybe 15 minutes. We promptly replaced it with another identical unit that served us well until we sold off all of our furniture and most of our earthly possessions via craigslist and moved to Germany in early 2009. We bought our first one in ~2004, it lasted a few years until an unfortunate occasion when a beer bottle left overnight after a party took a ring of the dark wood laminate with it, revealing the pith of compressed wood fibers that lay beneath. Just wanted to add a post in appreciation of IKEA's LACK coffee table. View recipe here: IKEA Dryck Lingon experiment | Alternative Sugar Beer Extract Beer Recipe | Brewer's Friend I'm really curious to find out whether it can be made into something worth drinking, and perhaps enjoy some alongside swedish meatballs.Д¬all it an IKEA hack if you will, or a Swedish berry blasphemy, but my objective here is simply to seek out a happy buzz that I assembled myself and can be proud of. Recently, I discovered a forgotten bottle of lingonberry drink concentrate in the back of the skГҐp (cupboard to the layman) and thought it might be a fun project to ferment it like a wine, distill it, and then backsweeten it with more lingonberry juice to make a marginally palatable sipping liqueur, and finally repackage it back into its humble glass bottle. Sweeter and milder than cranberries, we've come to really enjoy IKEA's lingonberry jam and drinks over the years. We still pop into our local IKEA from time to time even if just to enjoy the familiar meal of meatballs and boiled potatoes with gravy and of course the delightfully foreign and festive lingonberry sauce. To me, visiting an IKEA store is like stepping through a time portal that takes me back to all of the spaces we've called home, and recalls vivid, palpable memories of how it felt settling in to strange new surroundings and finding happiness.

Throughout our 20 years of marriage and moving back and forth between two continents and 8 apartments, our IKEA furnishings in their unapologetic Swedishness have always provided a familiar sense of foreign dislocation that actually made us feel at home no matter where we were. An Old-Fashioned Cocktail made with Dryck Lingon concentrate from IKEA instead of simple syrup.My wife and I kinda have a love thing going on with IKEA. I like Wild Turkey 101 for this sort of cocktail вЂ“ just be aware that the higher alcohol content will likely hit your bloodstream a little harder than an 80 proof. You really want that bourbon-flavor to cut through and balance the sweetness of the concentrate.

In fact, a cheaper bourbon that has a little more of a rough flavor will work best here. Second, you donвЂ™t need to invest in an expensive bourbon for this cocktail.

HereвЂ™s a couple ofВ tips: First,В because the Dryck Lingon is very concentrated and very sweet, err on the side of less versus more and adjust the level of sweetness for your personal taste. However in itвЂ™s concentrated form it can be used as a flavored simple syrup, which in turn can be used as a replacement for the sugar cube in a traditional old-fashioned. It is meant to be diluted with water to make lingonberry juice (similar to what you can get out of those machines at the IKEA Cafe). The main ingredient that shapes this cocktail is Dryck Lingon, which is the lingonberry concentrate that you can find in the IKEA Marketplace. I give you the IKEA Lingonberry Old-Fashioned! This recipe isnвЂ™t strictly an old-fashioned but, ticks all the boxes for a good quick cocktail that is a real crowd pleaser. IвЂ™m a big fan of bourbon, and I love a good old-fashioned. Here is a little something that I put together last year and never got around to posting вЂ“ a little IKEA hack for a fun cocktail.

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