What we like about the older, traditional distilleries is their dependability. When you buy Beefeater gin, for instance, you know exactly what you’re going to get: a quality gin, that tastes like we expect a dry gin to taste, and works well in a reliable...
Craft Irish Whiskey for St. Patrick's Day We got our first taste of the Irish whiskey revival last spring at a Glendalough pop-up at Service Bar. Since then, we've grown in our appreciation for Irish whiskey as a more companionable spirit for mixing. We understand now...
Liquor Review: Eagle Rare Pemberton Single Barrel Select Eagle Rare has long been our preferred Bourbon. It's a straight Bourbon, aged 10 years, smooth and even, with a nice round sweetness, surprisingly affordable at about $30 per bottle. Its combination of affordability and amiability make it...
Liquor Review: Wigle's Deep Cut Rye The arrival of an unexpected package at the office is always a moment of great anticipation. Sure, most of the time it's an insurance policy renewal to review, but every once in a while it's Wigle's seasonal sample. Most recently,...
Maurin Vermouth Rouge On a recent trip home from the office, we stopped by our DC All Purpose liquor store, Schneider's, to replenish our vermouth supply. As we mentioned in our profile of Schneider's, one of its features is that the clerks are very forthcoming with...
Liquor Stores We Rely On: Wine and Cheese Cask We write all the time about the bottles we buy, what we think of them, and what we make with them. Every once in a while we give a little credit to the liquor stores where we...
How to Read a Cocktail Menu on Cook's Cook We're excited to announce that our main content for the day is actually over at Cook's Cook, an international collection of food writers, chefs, and recipe testers. We're excited to be in the company of such an eminent...
Liquor Stores We Rely On: Schneider's on Capitol Hill We write all the time about the bottles we buy, what we think of them, and what we make with them. Every once in a while we give a little credit to the liquor stores where we...
Lorenzo Americano Cocktail Recipe One of us has an Italian great-grandfather, Lorenzo. Lorenzo immigrated to the US in the era when seeming as English as possible was the preferred integration strategy; so Lawrence or Larry has been a family name ever since. We're partial to the...
Liquor Stores We Rely On: Potomac Wine and Spirits We write all the time about the bottles we buy, what we think of them, and what we make with them. Every once in a while we give a little credit to the liquor stores where we...