The Blossom Cocktail Recipe As we mentioned yesterday, it's cherry blossom season here in DC. Or at least it's supposed to be. As we sit with crossed fingers waiting to see whether or not the blossoms survived the weird combination of a very warm February and...
Cask Aging We promised you in our write-up of Experimental Cocktail Bar (which fees like ages ago! Take us back to France!) that we were going to do some experimenting with cocktail aging. We haven't forgotten. How could we? While the barrel-aged cocktail was a new experience...
The Rancho Cocktail Recipe If you tried yesterday's 909 Cocktail, chances are that you have a little bit of blood orange left. So did we, which is no surprise since we had a whole tree to work with. I was intrigued by the way the blood...
The 909 Cocktail Recipe A couple of weekends ago we returned to Los Angeles, one of our hometowns, for the sad reason that our last remaining grandparent had died. As is always the case with these occasions, it was a potent mixture of sad and sweet. We...
Serving Cocktails at a Dinner Party For the second month in a row, we tended bar at WeWork's DC Dinner Club, a delightful monthly event that continues to grow on us. We're crossing our fingers that we become the permanent house bartender for Dinner Club. The idea...
Lillet Fizz Cocktail Recipe On Valentine's Day, we mentioned that our long search for Lillet Rose had finally ended at Astor Wines on our recent trip to New York. We've continued to enjoy this unique aromatized wine, which has quickly become our favorite of the Lillet...
Wigle's Afterglow Ginger Whiskey One of the innovations of our friends at Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey is to release spirits on a seasonal schedule, rather like breweries do. They get their inspiration for these seasonal releases two ways: good, old fashioned brainstorming; or through market research done...
Lyon Sailor Reserve Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The sad news is that after today, we're out...
Lyon Overproof Oak Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their overproof oak rum, and then mix it...
Rinomato Orange Liqueur We've spent our week tasting bottles sent to us by our new friends at Fasel Shenstone, and comparing them to similar old favorites. We have to say that Fasel Shenstone has done quite well; the worst they've done in any round is a...