G-Train Cocktail Recipe This week, we're applying our mixing skills to beer. We know we're sledding uphill. Most people prefer their beer taken unmixed, and many beer mixed drinks are an acquired taste. But give us a chance. People have been mixing beer in drinks for...
Wigle's Pressed Pommeau At their latest seasonal release, Wigle Whiskey sent us Pressed, their version of a pommeau. A pommeau is a traditional liqueur in Brittany and Normandy, made by combining apple brandy with raw apple cider, and then allowing it to age for a while...
Tasting Mancino Chinato We've been on something of a (greater than usual) fortified wine kick for the last week or so, prompted by the arrival of several samples from fortified wine importer Fasel Shenstone. Beyond being simply delicious, they've taught us a lot about fortified wines, and...
Tasting St. Raphael Quinquina Let's talk about Quinquinas. A few days ago, we mentioned that Cocchi Americano is a quinquina, not a vermouth, and arguably therefore should never have been allowed in our Vermouth Taste-Off tournament. That might have left you with a couple of questions: 'What exactly...
Adding to our Red Vermouth Catalog Our earliest sets of posts (here and here and here and here and here) came about when, after years of using whatever vermouth was handy, we realized that it might be useful to find out which one we liked best...
The Jaguar Cocktail Recipe + Cask Aged Jaguar A little while ago, we got ourselves a little 2L barrel to try out some cask aging. The general rules of cask aging are use young spirits, since they are more dramatically affected by a short time of...
Kumo No Chowa Cocktail Recipe With a mere 18 months in the city, a ton of restaurants and bars to try, and new ones opening all the time, there are very few places to which we've made a return trip. Acqua al 2 is one of...
Shochu Negroni Cocktail Recipe Over the course of our many attempts to replicate Bar Goto's Improved Shochu Cocktail, we gained quite an affection for bison grass vodka, barley shochu, and the soft, sweetly vegetal flavor created when the two are combined. We thought it could serve as...
Penicillin Cocktail Recipe Every Sunday night, since the turn of the century, a group of my closest friends gathers together on Sunday nights, to grill some meat, drink some drinks, catch up with one another, and play some games. In the early days, we played board...
Improved Shochu Cocktail Recipe On our trip to New York a couple of months ago, our favorite drink was the Improved Shochu Cocktail, at the Japanese bar Bar Goto. It was utterly lovely and entirely smooth and like nothing we've ever tasted before. We asked for...