Fall Five: Rosemary Maple Bourbon Sour Other fun fall drinks | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters Outside of my former office window was a large, old sugar maple tree. Right around this time of year, it would burst...
We start day two of our five-day celebration of fall with a book recommendation. Perhaps our favorite cocktail recipe book this year has been Eric Prum and Josh Williams' Shake. It's organized by time of the year; so at the change of every season, we've...
One of the fun things about cocktails is that, with so many ingredients and with constant tweaking of proportions, the possibilities are pretty much endless. It's fun, at least, when you're trying cocktails created by an expert. If you're new to mixology, all of that...
Cocktails: Made in the USA? A couple of times now, I've mentioned the idea of drinking a liqueur in the European fashion. Since it keeps coming up, I thought it might be worth elaborating a little. Over the hundreds of years that they've been making liqueurs, continental Europeans...
We've been sharing our recipes, reviews, and bar and party tips for a month now and haven't yet mentioned an essential cocktail tool: the jigger, a tiny measuring cup for bar use. We hope our posts are inspiring you to do some cocktail mixing, and mixing means...
Today is a special day! The Pope is in town! He arrived last night and will stay through Thursday, Popemobiling his way around the city, and not all that far from our apartment--not something we can recall happening in Somerville. There aren't any actual indications that...
We have two favorite liquor stores in Cambridge. Cambridge Wine and Spirits is a big, clean, well-kept, well-lit grocery store with great inventory and cheap prices, basically the best imaginable discount liquor store. It's where we went when we were stocking up, or when we...
We're on part 3 of 3 in our introduction to Building a Bar. Here we gave you an overview of our 9 essential bottles, in part 1 we talked about bottles #1-4 (gin, bourbon, red vermouth, white vermouth); part 2 focused on bottles #5-7 (tequila,...
Tears of Chios: the most beautiful Mediterranean cocktail you ever did have This drink! We can't say enough good things. The only tears it will bring are ones of joy. We mentioned yesterday how we discovered this delicious specimen during our frequent trips to the Liberty Hotel Bar....
Vodka and tequila are the liquors on the list that tend to bring up bad memories for people. Remarkably frequently, when I offer a tequila drink, I get a shake of the head and, ‘I haven’t had tequila since college.’ When I suggest vodka, people...