Cocktail Recipes: Modern

26 Jun Liquor 101: Aquavit + The Complement Cocktail Recipe

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Liquor 101: Aquavit Given how much time we spend drinking, making, and writing about cocktails, it always surprises us and mostly delights us when we discover a new spirit. Aquavit has definitely been one of the most pleasant of those discoveries. Aquavit is the traditional spirit in...

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15 Jun Marseillaise Cocktail Recipe

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Marseillaise Cocktail Recipe We mentioned earlier this week that we recently had a few rounds of drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. While drinking Nido's excellent, vermouth-centric drinks, we swapped recipes for some of our favorite low alcohol cocktails. We shared one of Leith's, The Fortunate...

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14 Jun La Perla Cocktail Recipe

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La Perla Cocktail Recipe When we want to pretend we're New York bartenders--which is a lot of the time--and even better when we want to pretend we're New York bartenders shooting the shit with other New York bartenders, we tune in to Damon Boelte and Sother Teague's...

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13 Jun The Khartoum Cocktail Recipe

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The Khartoum Cocktail Recipe Today's recipe is another from our perusal of Frederic Yarm's Drink & Tell. It's yet another creation of eminent Boston bartender Misty Kalkofen, during her time at Cambridge's Brick and Mortar--we've been on something of a Kalkofen kick recently (here, here, here). Rum would...

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12 Jun The Fortunate Mistake Cocktail Recipe

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The Fortunate Mistake Cocktail Recipe We mentioned last week that, having corresponded by e-mail quite a bit, we finally felt it was about time to sit down for some drinks with fortified wine importer Leith Shenstone. His company, Fasel Shenstone, has introduced us to a whole...

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06 Jun Jupiter’s Acorn Cocktail Recipe

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Jupiter's Acorn Cocktail Recipe Frederic Yarm's Drink & Tell has proved to be a rich source of new cocktail ideas for us recently. We particularly found Jupiter's Acorn, from Craigie on Main, irresistible for the way it combines some of our long-time favorites like Benedictine with ingredients...

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05 Jun Where you should be drinking: Centrolina + Amaro Sour Cocktail Recipe

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Where you should be drinking: Centrolina We were headed from work to a show and needed a place for dinner that was on the way from the one to the other. We also wanted the food to be good. And, as always, the chance of a decent...

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02 Jun Tiki Week: How Tiki Died and Rose Again + Cuevas Cocktail Recipe

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Tiki Week: How Tiki Died and Rose Again We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping...

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01 Jun Tiki Week: By the way, What is Tiki? + Hibiscus Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe

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Tiki Week: By the way, what is Tiki? We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping...

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26 May Pittsburgh Drinks + The PiXburgh Kid Cocktail Recipe

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Pittsburgh Drinks When I was in Pittsburgh for the Three Day Blow conference, one of the other drinks writers I met was journalist Cody McDevitt who, with Pittsburgh bartender Sean Enright, was working on a book chronicling the history of drinking in Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh Drinks is now published,...

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