Cocktail/Mocktail Hour with the Kennedy School Alumni Council There are so many Harvard Kennedy School graduates kicking around in DC that it seems like most any cocktail party could claim 'alumni gathering' status. The Harvard Kennedy School DC Alumni Council takes it to a new level...
Tonic Bar @ Opower + the Elderberry Lavender Tequila & Tonic We loved getting to be part of a staff party at Opower. You could tell instantly that the company was cool and the people were great and made us wonder if we could ever have...
What We've Been Drinking: Drops of Jupiter Over the years we've developed some cocktail crushes, all the tweeny feelings of smittenness both for certain cocktails and for their makers. Our latest crush started when we noticed that so many of our social media friends were all posting...
Girlfriend Drink: Your Monday Night Bookclub Bookclubs are fabulous in their own right; they involve friends and dinner and thought-provoking conversation; all ingredients for an evening well-spent. And while endless Cougar-Town-sized glasses of red wine are often the drink-image associated with such gatherings, for our last...
Super Bowl Cocktail II You can't have a football game without two teams. Why would you have a Super Bowl party without two cocktails? While Next Year is the Vegas favorite we think the Halftime Show has a chance of covering the spread, or maybe even winning...
Super Bowl Party! If you can't tell, we love a good party. While we like them all, maybe our favorite party of the year is the Super Bowl. It could be because the Super Bowl is a party that pretty much everybody joins in on; all across the...
What We've Been Drinking: Tequila Old Fashioned As we mentioned in our brief history of the cocktail, the Old Fashioned is, perhaps unsurprisingly, more or less the original cocktail. We think now of the Old Fashioned as a whiskey drink. It actually may have started as...
(M)ocktail of the Week: The Amy D. Cocktails--those with alcohol-- are really our thing. However, we've learned over time that applying even a skosh of the skills we've learned to create one mixed drink without alcohol, is a surefire way to win over...
Merry Christmas Family Cocktail Today, we wish you a very Merry Christmas; or, if you're not one to celebrate Christmas, we wish you a happy December 25th. We're grateful for you tuning in for some liquor basics, cocktail recipes, and reviews. We're spending Christmas with family, in...
For Santa Like all of you, there's one thing at the top of our minds today: what sort of refreshments do we leave out for Santa? The good, old guy has a lot of work to do tonight, and we feel it's our duty to leave...