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...
Tasting Mancino Chinato We've been on something of a (greater than usual) fortified wine kick for the last week or so, prompted by the arrival of several samples from fortified wine importer Fasel Shenstone. Beyond being simply delicious, they've taught us a lot about fortified wines, and...
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...
Daisy de Santiago 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...
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...
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...
Reviewing our Vermouth Taste-off As we mentioned yesterday, fortified wine importer Fasel Shenstone was kind enough recently to send us a sampling of their products. Since trying out new fortified ones is one of our favorite things to do, this made us very happy. One of the...
Quaker Strength Whiskey We mentioned last week that Wigle Whiskey is releasing a series of whiskeys exploring the theme, 'Whiskey is beer, distilled,' by building whiskey off of popular beer styles. Last week, we tasted a Belgian-style triple whiskey; this week, we have an oatmeal stout whiskey....
Escubac Liqueur If you're a regular reader, you might have noticed that we recently took a trip to New York (here, here, here, here, here), an anniversary celebration that was also something of a cocktail pilgrimage. A required stop on that pilgrimage was the great Astor...