Cocktail Recipes: Modern

06 Dec 12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Girl from Ipanema Cocktail Recipe

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12 Drinks of Christmas 2016: Girl from Ipanema Cocktail Recipe Happy holidays! It's the time of the year for holiday decorations, twinkling lights, warm spices, and a rolling series of parties, gatherings, and celebrations. For the second year in a row, we'll be adding to the festivities...

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18 Nov Throwing your Drink + 1919 Cocktail Recipe

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Throwing your Drink I wrote at the beginning of the week that I was back in Boston a couple of weekends ago and--though my latest obsession in the Boston cocktail scene is Baldwin & Sons Trading Company--I made it a point to return to an old standard, Drink in...

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16 Nov Rock Creek Rye + The District Cocktail Recipe

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Rock Creek Rye One of our biggest delights upon moving to DC was to discover the exciting, new movement of local distillers here. Local distilling was quite the American tradition, before Prohibition. There were 4000 distillers in the US at the dawn of Prohibition; post-Prohibition, only...

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26 Oct Into the Woods Cocktail Recipe

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Into the Woods Cocktail Recipe Thumbing through our old recipes, we ran across this one. We can't remember who taught us this drink, and we couldn't even remember what it tasted like. But we were intrigued enough to mix one up, and--while wishing that we'd taken...

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17 Oct Le Diplomate + Demure Cocktail Recipe

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Le Diplomate We happily seek and energetically follow most restaurant or bar recommendations that come our way, but for some reason we resisted Le Diplomate. The hype was a bit too strong, almost to the point of being pushy. Plus, there was something just a little...

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04 Oct Cienciano Cocktail Recipe

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Cienciano Cocktail Recipe I think this is technically our first mailbag column. And it mostly serves to prove that we're terrible at mailbag columns. About ten months ago, our friend Liz found herself with a bottle of pisco and asked on our timeline for ideas of what...

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03 Oct Booze Brews Competition + Jalisco Radler Snake Cocktail Recipe

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Booze Brews Competition As we mentioned, last week was Beer Week here in DC. The schedule was full of beer-related fun all over the city all week, and one particular event seemed like it was inserted in the schedule just for us. For the Booze Brews Competition,...

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29 Sep World’s Fair Cocktail Recipe

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World's Fair Cocktail Recipe Sadly we weren't able to join our friends on their recent return trip to Baldwin & Sons Trading Co; it's a little bit of a journey for them, out to Woburn, but a much bigger one for us. Thankfully, Baldwin & Sons...

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28 Sep Playing with Acid + Oracle Cocktail Recipe

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Playing with Acid As we mentioned last month, we've recently noticed acid creeping into our cocktail menus. When our first attempt to use it ourselves went terribly wrong, we decided that this trend bears further investigations--and that we'd use more conventional alternatives until such time as...

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22 Sep Where You Should Be Drinking: Cava Mezze on Capitol Hill + Goodbye Yellow Basil Road Cocktail Recipe

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Where We've Been Drinking: Cava Mezze on Capitol Hill Back in May, we went with a few friends to a fantastic event with a silly name, The Lamb Jam. The Lamb Jam was all-you-can-eat samples of lamb dishes designed by about fifteen local chefs, accompanied by...

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