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...
Liquor 101: What's the Ideal Dry Martini? In Philip Greene's fun and engaging To Have and Have Another, we read that Hemingway preferred his martinis at a 15 parts gin: 1 part vermouth. We have to admit that it made us curious how a 15:1 martini tasted....
The White Lady Cocktail Recipe As was the case with last week's Cuba Libre, the White Lady makes an appearance in an Ernest Hemingway story, but not a favorable one. In Islands in the Stream, our hero Hudson is about to head off to the neighborhood...
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...
A Belated Recognition of Vermouth Blanco It's time for us to make a confession: we're cheaters. Some of our very earliest posts (here and here) were a bracket-style tournament of vermouths. Though we called one side of the bracket 'The Whites,' it was more precisely a...
Liquor 101: Whipped Cream Dispenser I know it's a little late to say so, but we hope you had a merry Christmas. We sure did. Among other things, we were given a bunch of new cocktail toys that we're sure we'll be sharing with you. Without...
Tuxedo #2 Cocktail Recipe Happy New Year! We have no idea what 2017 will bring, but we know we're ready to turn the page on 2016 and try something new. To welcome the new year in style, we present to you this classy 50/50 martini we found...
Drink in Boston's Fort Port We've been raving recently about Baldwin & Sons Trading Company, the suburban, Chinese restaurant that is improbably making some of the best cocktails in the Boston area. And we'll say it again: if you live in Boston, it's well worth the...
Whiskey Classics Week As we were designing 'Such a Nasty Woman' for the Magnus cocktail competition, we found ourselves thumbing for inspiration through Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book, that comprehensive guide to Prohibition era classics. We found that in 1930, like today, gin and rum dominated...
'Hoots Mon' Cocktail Recipe We follow trends and go through moods. As autumn hits, for instance, we've found ourselves frequently reaching for the Amaro Nonino; there's just something about it's caramel toned mild bitterness that says, 'Fall, you're alright,' to us. But as much as we're creatures...