Bombo Cocktail Recipe In our post on grog, we mentioned that--in contradiction to the popular imagination--grog was not a pirate drink; it was in fact the official drink of the proper navy. Pirates had their own drink, bombo. We thought, while it was only right to...
Designing a Drink of the Night A couple of weeks ago, our friend Dave (not to be confused with our friend Dan) texted to ask if we'd be willing to help with a party. The answer to that question is almost always, 'Yes.' We created Roberts...
Serving Cocktails at a Dinner Party For the second month in a row, we tended bar at WeWork's DC Dinner Club, a delightful monthly event that continues to grow on us. We're crossing our fingers that we become the permanent house bartender for Dinner Club. The idea...
No Jacket Required Cocktail Recipe On our trip to Eatbar, the No Jacket Required really caught our eye, though we weren't quite in the mood for it that particular night. It stuck in our minds, though, and we've actually made it for ourselves several times since. Mind...
12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Gingerbread Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...
Thanksgiving Made Easy: The Leftover Day Cocktail Recipe This week's posts have been for those of us who perhaps bit off a little bit more than we can chew, had a dish or two more than the oven can really handle, and of course had an emergency...
Apple a Day Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking to the beginning of fall. One of our favorite ways to mark the changing of the seasons is to create a seasonally appropriate old fashioned recipe; it's our version of the pumpkin spice latte. While we...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Hope + Anchor in El Paso A lot of people travel to DC for work. We know because we once took a Friday afternoon flight out of DC. A lot of people also travel to places like New York or...
Watermelon Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series, and since then we’ve been working to add to the collection in order to make summer 2016 the. best. summer. ever. You’ve joined us for Watermelon Week because what summer is...
Pittsburgh's Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe We mentioned yesterday that it took what seems to us a very long time before it occurred to anyone to try to mix multiple liquors together in a single drink. To give due credit to our mixological forefathers, they had much more material...