Jimmie Special Cocktail Recipe We recently found ourselves with a limited bar, but with just as much of an appetite for cocktails as usual. One of the things we happened to have on hand, a bit unusual for us, was champagne--left over from our batch of...
Hemingway Drinks: Gambler's Delight We're spending this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks from Ernest Hemingway's...
Not Quite Negroni Week: St. Augustine's 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 were oblivious until, midweek, we started to see...
Beer Cocktail Week I like beer. Not as much as cocktails, mind you; but I like beer. We left a lot behind when we departed Boston, home to us for our adult lives, and made our way to DC. One thing--a small thing, but still a...
Joe Redding's Julep Recipe If you're a consistent Roberts & June reader, you may have noticed that we've been spending this week on fortified wines, correcting our earlier misperceptions and adding to our catalog. We indeed have one more fortified wine post, but we thought we'd...
Blackberry Cognac Daisy Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week acquainting ourselves with a very old, mostly forgotten class of cocktail called the Daisy, a sort of sour with something(s) extra. It's a deliciously refreshing and aptly named cocktail for the current season of warming temperatures and...
Lyon Liqueurs: Coffee Rum A while ago, Lyon Distilling, a rum maker on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was kind enough to provide us with samples of most of their products. We had such a good time tasting, experimenting with, and writing about their excellent and interesting rums...
Punch Week: The Orange Billy Punch Recipe This week, we're familiarizing ourselves with the cocktail's predecessor, punch. We're not talking about the jungle juice served from a trash can to a solo cup at your first college party, but a mellow blend of spirit, citrus, spice,...
Punch Week: Punch's Secret Sauce This week, we're familiarizing ourselves with the cocktail's predecessor, punch. We're not talking about the jungle juice served from a trash can to a solo cup at your first college party, but a mellow blend of spirit, citrus, spice, and sugar...
Punch Week: An Introduction to Punch We've never been much for punch. The word evokes rainbow sherbet and 7-Up or, even worse, concoctions served out of plastic trash cans at college parties. If there's one thing we avoid in a drink, it's consuming it out of...