What We've Been Drinking: Sentimental Gentleman Benedictine is probably our favorite liqueur that we somehow never end up using. We have a soft spot in our heart for herbal liqueurs in general, and Benedictine deserves its place among them. Its herbal mix is similar to Chartreuse's,...
Welcome to the Twelve Drinks of Christmas. Over the next two weeks and change, bringing us to the very edge of Christmas Eve, we'll be giving our top twelve suggestions of cocktails to make your holidays merry and bright. Some of them are good pitcher...
Drink of the Week: Thanksgiving Smash We've been having fun recently experimenting with smashes. A smash is a very old and, until recently, mostly dormant style of cocktail involving sugar and seasonal fruit (the Mint Julep is a smash that stayed current during the quiet period)....
Girlfriend Drinks: The Elderflower Manhattan In case there was ever any doubt who is writing which post, today will be an easy one. Girlfriends. They're the best. It's pretty vogue to be the tomboy and exclaim "Oh, I only ever was friends with boys growing up," but...
What We're Drinking: Bonal and Rye At my latest trip to the liquor store, I ran across a fortified wine I'd never noticed before. When that happens, the odds are better than even that I'll end up adopting it, like an irresistibly cute puppy from a pet store....
Believe it or not, cocktails in general and many of the classic cocktails in particular have their roots in the very beginnings of pharmacy. For instance, yesterday's drink, the daiquiri, started as a preventative medicine against scurvy. And bitters--those extra-intense alcohol mixtures that play an...
Classics Week: The Manhattan James Bond may be drinking Heineken from the bottle nowadays, and maybe he doesn't look like he cares whether his martini is shaken or stirred. But during the long, dark period in which cocktails were on the outs with American drinkers, James...
Drink of the Week: Thursday's Comfort Truth be told: I hate Thursdays. I know everyone talks about Wednesday being the worst as it's hump day, or Monday because it's the start of the week, or perhaps Sunday as the reality sets in that the weekend will...
Drink(s) of the Week: The Last Word(s) We've mentioned the concept of variation on a theme as one solid way of creating a cocktail. Cocktails are very seldom created from a blank slate; instead you start with a known quantity, and tweak until you find something new...
Fall Five: Rosemary Maple Bourbon Sour Other fun fall drinks | Apple Margarita | Apple Manhattan | Fall Ginger Smash | Spiced Rum Old Fashion | Pumpkin Pie Shooters Outside of my former office window was a large, old sugar maple tree. Right around this time of year, it would burst...