The Ultimate Bar Book: Your go to guide, for every single drink When cooking, Steph and I have our favorite sources for inspiration and new recipes: the blogger we're really into (that'd be you, Smitten Kitchen), the beautiful boutique cookbook one of us got for Christmas,...
We've been sharing our recipes, reviews, and bar and party tips for a month now and haven't yet mentioned an essential cocktail tool: the jigger, a tiny measuring cup for bar use. We hope our posts are inspiring you to do some cocktail mixing, and mixing means...
We're on part 3 of 3 in our introduction to Building a Bar. Here we gave you an overview of our 9 essential bottles, in part 1 we talked about bottles #1-4 (gin, bourbon, red vermouth, white vermouth); part 2 focused on bottles #5-7 (tequila,...
Vodka and tequila are the liquors on the list that tend to bring up bad memories for people. Remarkably frequently, when I offer a tequila drink, I get a shake of the head and, ‘I haven’t had tequila since college.’ When I suggest vodka, people...
With just these four bottles, you have on hand what you need to make two of the most famous of cocktails, and several other things as well. It’s just enough to be able to offer something quite respectable, and to hit the spot for a...
With these nine bottles (not 25!), a shaker, some citrus, some sugar, soda, tonic, and maybe some olives and cherries, you can make the most standard of standard cocktails and numerous others, satisfying a broad spectrum of cocktail tastes....