The Nora Highball Cocktail Recipe When we returned from the hospital on November 4th, it felt like high time for a drink. One of us had been waiting for one for 9 months, nine hot, uncomfortable, tired and tiring months. Then she had to wait another week....
Death in the Gulf Stream Cocktail Recipe Our favorite drink from our time in Detroit was Amanda Mentzer's Worse for Wear. We mentioned in our write-up on it last week that it's based on a Hemingway hangover cure. Looking into it further, we discovered that the...
Where to Drink in Detroit: Mudgie's Deli While sipping our Salt & Cedar at Detroit City Distillery, we asked Lee the bartender where else we should go in Detroit for a good drink. He told us that we should head to Mudgie's, and look for Amanda...
Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe It took some coaxing and a lot of education, but we've gradually become fans of rum, and more quickly fans of tiki. It's true that tiki drinks can be a bit complicated; they take some preparation--of ingredients certainly, but even psychologically,...
Peychaud's Bitters This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Not...
Bitters Week: What and Why is a Bitter? This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles with dropper tops. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Maybe it's prejudice against...
Go Go Rickey Cocktail Recipe Last weekend, we were invited to a showing of Darius Frank's award-winning art exhibit Things I Love/d, his memorial to things that have been lost in DC's quickly changing cityscape and his tentative embrace of what's new. The contest Frank won was...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Hill Prince on H We were grabbing drinks with our friend Dan, who was in town for a convention.We usually have a a little list of places to hit when he's in town, but he's been in DC quite a bit...
What is Grog? I can't remember exactly how it came about, but over our drinks at Waypoint--not any of which were either a punch or grog--the group of us ended up pondering what exactly grog is, and how it differs from a punch. None of us...
Hemingway Drinks: Green Isaac's Special Cocktail Recipe We've spent 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...