Red Pilot Cocktail Recipe In our long journey to fully embracing mezcal, the Red Pilot was our gateway cocktail. While we've now gained a taste for the full-throated smokiness of a mezcal-based drink, and learned how to pick out the one's we'll enjoy, there was a...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Waypoint in Cambridge On our way to Cape Cod, we made a prolonged stop in Cambridge to visit friends and to volunteer at Soccer Nights, a one of a kind summer evening soccer clinic for low-income, immigrant youth. One of us...
Not Quite Negroni Week: The Half Measure Cocktail Recipe It seems we're destined to be a little behind. The first week of June, 6000 bars and restaurants were mixing up one of our favorite cocktails for Negroni Week. We didn't even know it was happening until,...
The Khartoum Cocktail Recipe Today's recipe is another from our perusal of Frederic Yarm's Drink & Tell. It's yet another creation of eminent Boston bartender Misty Kalkofen, during her time at Cambridge's Brick and Mortar--we've been on something of a Kalkofen kick recently (here, here, here). Rum would...
Jupiter's Acorn Cocktail Recipe Frederic Yarm's Drink & Tell has proved to be a rich source of new cocktail ideas for us recently. We particularly found Jupiter's Acorn, from Craigie on Main, irresistible for the way it combines some of our long-time favorites like Benedictine with ingredients...
Where you should be drinking: Centrolina We were headed from work to a show and needed a place for dinner that was on the way from the one to the other. We also wanted the food to be good. And, as always, the chance of a decent...
Tiki Week: How Tiki Died and Rose Again We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping...
Adding to our Red Vermouth Catalog Our earliest sets of posts (here and here and here and here and here) came about when, after years of using whatever vermouth was handy, we realized that it might be useful to find out which one we liked best...
The Jaguar Cocktail Recipe + Cask Aged Jaguar A little while ago, we got ourselves a little 2L barrel to try out some cask aging. The general rules of cask aging are use young spirits, since they are more dramatically affected by a short time of...
The Chrysanthemum Cocktail Recipe Three of our favorite things are classic cocktail recipes, drinks with a fortified wine base, and strong herbal liqueurs. Imagine our delight when we discovered all three in the same package. The Chrysanthemum is a pre-Prohibition recipe that triples down on the...