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

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: Boston by Roberts & June

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...

03 Oct Ti’ Punch Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic by Roberts & June

Ti' Punch Cocktail Recipe During Tiki Week, one of the recipes we considered featuring was Ti' Punch. In the end, though, it was beat out in the proto-tiki category by Planter's Punch. We kind of forgot about Ti' Punch until our friend Dan essentially demanded we...

29 Aug Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic by Roberts & June

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,...

21 Aug Bombo Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic by Roberts & June

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...

14 Aug Bitters Week: What and Why is a Bitter? + Pulling Rank Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Building a bar, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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...

04 Aug Where You Should Be Drinking: Hill Prince on H + Beaming Beauty Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: DC by Roberts & June

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...

01 Aug What is Grog? + Navy Grog Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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...

27 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

Hemingway Drinks: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe 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...

17 Jul South Hollow Spirits Distillery | Cape Cod, MA

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews, Where to Drink, Where to Drink: Other by Roberts & June

South Hollow Spirits Distillery When we were deliberating two years ago whether or not to move from Boston to DC, the job opportunities and the sense of adventure eventually swayed us in the direction of making the move. But it was no easy decision. To ease...

14 Jul Daiquiri Week: the Ginger Mint Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original by Roberts & June

Daiquiri Week: The Ginger Mint Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe 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...