What We've Been Drinking: The Bastard We helped some friends from grad school celebrate MLK day by mixing drinks. It was a cozy party, filled with a warmth that only comes when there is a whole room filled with people who are delighted to see each other....
Where We've Been Drinking: Le Grenier photo cred: ihadabiglunch.com We mentioned that last Tuesday was our anniversary. Three years of marriage. Boom. That's also three solid years that we've been trying to go to France. We got married in January and winters in Boston are just so...
Super Bowl Cocktail II You can't have a football game without two teams. Why would you have a Super Bowl party without two cocktails? While Next Year is the Vegas favorite we think the Halftime Show has a chance of covering the spread, or maybe even winning...
Super Bowl Party! If you can't tell, we love a good party. While we like them all, maybe our favorite party of the year is the Super Bowl. It could be because the Super Bowl is a party that pretty much everybody joins in on; all across the...
One day only! Blizzard Cocktail Consulting Storm Jonas have you stuck inside? We'll help you weather the storm. Tell us what you have, we'll tell you what to make. For one-day only, we're offering free cocktail consulting. Here's how it works: Anytime during Storm Jonas, text us what drink...
What We've Been Drinking: Tequila Old Fashioned As we mentioned in our brief history of the cocktail, the Old Fashioned is, perhaps unsurprisingly, more or less the original cocktail. We think now of the Old Fashioned as a whiskey drink. It actually may have started as...
Where We've Been Drinking: Thip Kao photo cred: thipkao.com Here are two things we've learned since moving to DC: Making friends is harder than we remember; Capitol Hill is far away from everything. We knew moving would entail saying goodbye to so many friends, and we could piece it together...
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,...
Happy Anniversary to us + Wedding Cocktails Three years ago, on a mild winter day in Boston (really, it was 45, and the lack of snow meant for faded yellow brown grass everywhere in sight), we tied the knot. It was lovely and magical as any...
Cocktail Experiments: Hopped Whiskey There's a lot to like about our friends at Wigle. While there are plenty of things to like about them as people, two of the top thing we like about their liquor are their rigorous devotion to local--native even--ingredients, and their almost boundless...