07 Oct If You’re Going to Have More Than One
If you're going to have more than one Drink responsibly ...
If you're going to have more than one Drink responsibly ...
The Story of the Scofflaw The Scofflaw has a great origin story. You can read it all over the internet. It goes like this. In 1923, wealthy banker and fervent temperance advocate Delcevare King sponsored a national contest to come up with the perfect derogatory term for people...
The Waldorf Cocktail Recipe from the Waldorf Astoria Bar Book by Frank Caiafa Did you know that the original Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan started as two separate hotels, the Waldorf and the Astoria? Two Astor cousins tore down their family mansions which were next door to one another,...
Cienciano Cocktail Recipe I think this is technically our first mailbag column. And it mostly serves to prove that we're terrible at mailbag columns. About ten months ago, our friend Liz found herself with a bottle of pisco and asked on our timeline for ideas of what...
Booze Brews Competition As we mentioned, last week was Beer Week here in DC. The schedule was full of beer-related fun all over the city all week, and one particular event seemed like it was inserted in the schedule just for us. For the Booze Brews Competition,...
50/50 Martini of the Week: Win-Win Cocktail Recipe Ever since Copycat Company on H Street introduced us to the concept, we've been charmed by the 50/50 martini--that is, equal parts base spirit and fortified wine, with minimal accoutrements, stirred and served straight up. The template is clear and...
World's Fair Cocktail Recipe Sadly we weren't able to join our friends on their recent return trip to Baldwin & Sons Trading Co; it's a little bit of a journey for them, out to Woburn, but a much bigger one for us. Thankfully, Baldwin & Sons...
Playing with Acid As we mentioned last month, we've recently noticed acid creeping into our cocktail menus. When our first attempt to use it ourselves went terribly wrong, we decided that this trend bears further investigations--and that we'd use more conventional alternatives until such time as...
O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth. We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...
Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...