Highball Week: Picon Punch Cocktail Recipe It's very rare to find a cocktail that, like the Picon Punch, is amaro based. Amari are a class of mostly Italian, herbal, bitter liqueurs. Don't let the 'bitter' part scare you away. While some of them can in fact be...
Highball Week: the Paloma Cocktail Recipe The Paloma is the Margarita's highball cousin. With citrus, lime, and a little bit of salt, it's the perfect refresher on a scorching hot day. While recipes usually call for Squirt or Fresca, we like to keep it on the...
Highball Week: Moscow Mule Cocktail Recipe Having spent a week using only our old fashioned glasses, we felt it was only fair to give our highballs a chance. To be honest, we're a bit biased against highballs. In fact, for a long time, one of our rules...
Old Fashioned Week: The Traditional Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe We've been on something of an old fashioned kick recently. As we've mentioned before, while we tend to think nowadays of the old fashioned as a whiskey drink, it doesn't have to be. Old fashioneds are the original...
Derby Day Cocktail Recipe: Mint Julep This week, we've already covered the fact that it's Mother's Day, and Cinco de Mayo. It seems it's also Kentucky Derby week. How do we not get a day off? Don't three minors equal a major? We might be working...
Cocktail A La Louisiane Inspired by some research for a New Orleans themed party that never happened, we're spending the week celebrating New Orleans' long and illustrious relationship with the cocktail. Previously, we've covered the Ramos Gin Fizz and two of our own New Orleans inspired...
NOLA Week: Ramos Gin Fizz Inspired by some research for a New Orleans themed party that never happened, we're spending the week celebrating New Orleans' long and illustrious relationship with the cocktail. Yesterday, we kicked off the week with a New Orleans inspired recipe of our...
Fortified Wine Week: Vermouth This week, we're giving fortified wines some attention. They're part wine, part brandy, essential to cocktails, and each delicious in their own unique way. We started by talking about fortified wines generally, and then gave each of sherry and port their day in...
Fortified Wine Week: Sherry This week, we're giving fortified wines some attention. They're part wine, part brandy, essential to cocktails, and each delicious in their own unique way. Yesterday, we discussed fortified wines in general. Today, we'll focus on sherry. You probably have a bad impression of sherry; most...
Fortified Wine Week: Introduction A little while ago, we did a post on the three basic alcoholic building blocks of a cocktail: spirits, liqueurs, and fortified wines. We discussed the part each of them plays in your cocktail, and tried to help you get a sense of...