Martini Week: St. Germain Martini Our final martini of the week is another ingredient substitution. We're going to tag in St. Germain for the vermouth. You're probably familiar with St. Germain. Made from elderflower, it's the delightfully pleasant, sweet and floral liqueur that we, like most any...
Martini Week: The Finnocchietto Martini We mentioned yesterday that there are two primary ways to experiment with a drink: adjust the proportions; substitute an ingredient. Having played with the proportions yesterday, we thought we'd swap an ingredient today. It's a simple change, but a bold one. We're taking...
Martini Week: The 50/50 Cocchi Martini We spent the last week of June walking through a simplified description of the development of the mixed drink, from the sugar+spirit old fashioneds, to the fizzy highballs, to the more complex 'fancy drinks.' These fancy drinks, with their multiple ingredients...
Martini Week: The Martinez A drink for history lovers It's generally thought that the Martinez is the mother of the martini. We don't have any actual proof of this. We don't know where or when this happy birth might have happened, or who the bartender who assisted in...
Martini Week We love it when we get a chance to party with WeWork, the cool shared office place where all of the creative, millenial entrepreneurs (and Brian) go to work. We've done a few events at various WeWork before (here and here and here); so...
The Zombie Cocktail When Prohibition was lifted in the 1930s, US bartenders were eager to get the party started, but they had a supply problem. With US production halted for more than ten years, where would they get their spirits? Don the Beachcomber had the answer:...
El Presidente Cocktail Drink, on Boston's seaport, was the city's first truly great cocktail bar. It has a lot more competition now than it did when it first opened; so it's no longer head and shoulders above its competition. Who knows, the best cocktail bar in...
The Granate State Cocktail After yesterday's post, we have a lot of very tasty, very fresh, very inexpensive grenadine left over. Before adding our vodka to the grenadine, as Annalaura suggests for preservation, we thought we'd make a couple more cocktails. Today's makes use of another new arrival...
Guest Post: Super Easy Homemade Grenadine + Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe When we posted not so long ago about just how shockingly simple it is to make your own simple syrup, our friend Annalaura mentioned that she has a similar recipe for making your own grenadine....
Cocktail Recipe: the Sofi We like a lot about our charming, little (very little) Eastern Market apartment, but hands down our favorite thing is the spacious (relatively speaking), leafy patio. We've been tinkering with it since we moved in, adding a grill here, tables and chairs...