Liquor Review: Eagle Rare Pemberton Single Barrel Select Eagle Rare has long been our preferred Bourbon. It's a straight Bourbon, aged 10 years, smooth and even, with a nice round sweetness, surprisingly affordable at about $30 per bottle. Its combination of affordability and amiability make it...
The Return to Acqua al 2 One of us was raised in California; the other in Chicago. Because of this, while in most regards our tastes are quite similar, we have very different comfort foods. For the Californian, it's sushi, smoothies, and juice; for the Chicagoan,...
Boston Club Punch Cocktail Recipe Maybe you've noticed a slowdown in our posting. We've recently had to re-direct much of our attention to welcoming a new little member to our family. She's been delightful, but for a while there she wasn't leaving much time for cocktails. After...
Liquor Review: Wigle's Deep Cut Rye The arrival of an unexpected package at the office is always a moment of great anticipation. Sure, most of the time it's an insurance policy renewal to review, but every once in a while it's Wigle's seasonal sample. Most recently,...
Maurin Vermouth Rouge On a recent trip home from the office, we stopped by our DC All Purpose liquor store, Schneider's, to replenish our vermouth supply. As we mentioned in our profile of Schneider's, one of its features is that the clerks are very forthcoming with...
Liquor Stores We Rely On: Wine and Cheese Cask We write all the time about the bottles we buy, what we think of them, and what we make with them. Every once in a while we give a little credit to the liquor stores where we...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Kirkland Tap & Trotter Halfway between our Union Square condo and Harvard Yard, the perfect distance for an evening stroll, is Kirkland Tap & Trotter, the second restaurant by Tony Maws, chef of the famed Craigie on Main. Tap & Trotter...
Eatbar Shows Us Whiskey's Bright Side Ever since our first entirely delightful visit for apps and drinks shortly after Eatbar opened, every time we pass by--which is all the time since it's right around the corner--we say, 'We should go back there to try their burger...
Ward 8 Cocktail Recipe When we did our part in the revival of the once endangered West End of Boston with a couple of rounds of drinks at Ward 8, we were tempted by, but did not order, its namesake cocktail, there being too many other...
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...