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...
O'Zapft is Whiskey + White Manhattan Cocktail Recipe Back in some of our earliest posts, we use 'white,' as a nickname designation for dry vermouth. We thought that following the wine convention of red and white would be a useful handle, and we thought we could...
Hopped Whiskey Today, we're going to celebrate the beginning of DC Beer Week by talking about ...
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...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Hope + Anchor in El Paso A lot of people travel to DC for work. We know because we once took a Friday afternoon flight out of DC. A lot of people also travel to places like New York or...
Where We've Been Drinking: Russell House Tavern in Harvard Square There were two distinct things we did this summer: go to France and go to Boston (a lot). Getting married in the Boston area was a popular activity among our friend group, and thus we happily...
Sinner Takes Manhattan Cocktail Recipe One of our proudest moment is when a friend first designs their own cocktail. Back in July, we spent a weekend in New Hampshire with a bunch of college friends. One of them, Dash, had just come back from a trip to...
Where We've Been Drinking: Quarter + Glory A few days ago, we got together for drinks with some friends. One of those friends suggested Quarter+Glory. None of the rest of us had run across this place yet, but it was pretty conveniently located and our friend...
Americano Cocktail Recipe As so many things do, our week at the end of August immersed in spritzers (here, here, here, here, & here) made us think of the Negroni. According to legend, the Negroni's parent was a spritzer, the Americano. The Americano is a bit fancier...
Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe When we were ordering our brunch drinks at Bearnaise, one drink caught our eye that we didn't end up ordering, mostly because we're on a tireless search to find the perfect Bloody Mary; so one of our drink slots is...