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21 Nov Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Ward 8 + Get Down Cocktail Recipe

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Where You Should Be Drinking in Boston: Ward 8 Everything we know about Boston's West End, we owe to Dennis Lehane. Apparently, in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the West End was the second stop on an immigrants' path to assimilation...

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24 Oct Aviation Cocktail Recipe

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Aviation Cocktail Recipe When we stumbled across Arsenic and Old Lace last week, we were actually researching Aviation. The two have several things in common: a name that starts with 'A'; a gin base; creme de violette; and their earliest known appearance in Ensslin's 1917 Recipes for...

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28 Aug Baldwin & Sons Trading Co., Vol. 2 + Night’s Watch Cocktail Recipe

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Baldwin & Sons Trading Co., Vol. 2 By now we've probably made our admiration of Baldwin & Sons Trading Company pretty clear (here, here, here, and here). While it certainly has competition (Drink and Waypoint, for instance), we think that this quirky Chinese restaurant in the...

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15 Aug Bitters Week: What Bitters and Russian Roulette Have in Common + I Am Love Cocktail Recipe

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What Bitters and Russian Roulette Have in Common 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...

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03 Aug Red Pilot Cocktail Recipe

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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...

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12 Jul Daiquiri Week: The Hemingway Daiquiri

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Daiquiri Week: The Hemingway Daiquiri In celebration of the beginning of high summer, we're stocking up on rum and limes and making Daiquiris all week. You might be most familiar with the Daiquiri during it's sloppy mid-modern period when it was served out of slush machines,...

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27 Jun Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe

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Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe Mary Pickford was a big deal. This huge silent film star was one of the first movie stars to get billing in a movie; before her, most actors were anonymous. In a time when the studios usually had actors at their mercy,...

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26 Jun Liquor 101: Aquavit + The Complement Cocktail Recipe

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Liquor 101: Aquavit Given how much time we spend drinking, making, and writing about cocktails, it always surprises us and mostly delights us when we discover a new spirit. Aquavit has definitely been one of the most pleasant of those discoveries. Aquavit is the traditional spirit in...

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23 May Irish Sherry Cobbler Cocktail Recipe

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Irish Sherry Cobbler Cocktail Recipe Ever since we tasted Service Bar's delightfully fancy cobbler at the Glendalough Cocktail Pop Up, cobblers have been on our mind. As we mentioned in previous posts, the cobbler is a very old drink, and to the historical purists not strictly...

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28 Apr Garrick Club Punch Cocktail Recipe

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Garrick Club Punch Recipe As we mentioned in our special week on the topic not so long ago, we're late but enthusiastic converts to punch. We long stood firmly on the cocktail side of the argument; then we met a true, honest-to-goodness punch from its 18th century...

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