The Liquor Stores We Rely On We write many words about where we buy drinks, and about what bottles we buy. We've realized recently that we've written very few on the very crucial question of where we find those bottles. Where would we be without a...
Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe It took some coaxing and a lot of education, but we've gradually become fans of rum, and more quickly fans of tiki. It's true that tiki drinks can be a bit complicated; they take some preparation--of ingredients certainly, but even psychologically,...
Baldwin & Sons Trading Co., Vol. 2 By now we've probably made our admiration of Baldwin & Sons Trading Company pretty clear (here, here, here, and here). While it certainly has competition (Drink and Waypoint, for instance), we think that this quirky Chinese restaurant in the...
Where You Should Be Drinking in Frederick MD: Volt We're on our third summer in DC, and we're starting to get the hang of it. The city empties out on weekends, as people seek some relief from the steamy, sweltering bowl of humidity that is DC...
Cask-aged Trident For a while now, we've been cycling drinks through our little two liter barrel, trying out the effects of aging on a drink. If you want to try it at home (and we recommend you do. It's a fun science experiment with a unique...
Bombo Cocktail Recipe In our post on grog, we mentioned that--in contradiction to the popular imagination--grog was not a pirate drink; it was in fact the official drink of the proper navy. Pirates had their own drink, bombo. We thought, while it was only right to...
How Much is a Dash? This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always...
Peychaud's Bitters This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Not...
Angostura Bitters This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Not...
What Bitters and Russian Roulette Have in Common This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big...