Liquor 101: Cocktail History

11 Mar Craft Irish Whiskey for St. Patrick’s Day + County Wicklow Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 17:39h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

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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...

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26 Oct Lorenzo Americano Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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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...

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04 Oct Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Brian Acker Housman

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Old Fashioned Martini Cocktail Recipe As you'll know if you read our post 'What's the Ideal Dry Martini?',  learning of Hemingway's preference for a 15 gin: 1 vermouth proportion sent us into some research on martini recipes over time. We, of course, found that gin to...

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19 Sep Drink Like the Greeks: Introduction and Local Wine

Posted at 10:00h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Drink Like the Greeks: Introduction and Local Wine While our love for our neighborhood of Eastern Market is well-documented, we also love to travel. We say we love to travel, but it might be more accurate to say we have loved to travel. We're about to...

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14 Aug Bitters Week: What and Why is a Bitter? + Pulling Rank Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Modern, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Building a bar, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Bitters Week: What and Why is a Bitter? This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles with dropper tops. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Maybe it's prejudice against...

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11 Aug Liquor 101: What’s the Ideal Dry Martini?

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Liquor 101: What's the Ideal Dry Martini? In Philip Greene's fun and engaging To Have and Have Another, we read that Hemingway preferred his martinis at a 15 parts gin: 1 part vermouth. We have to admit that it made us curious how a 15:1 martini tasted....

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02 Aug The White Lady Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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The White Lady Cocktail Recipe As was the case with last week's Cuba Libre, the White Lady makes an appearance in an Ernest Hemingway story, but not a favorable one. In Islands in the Stream, our hero Hudson is about to head off to the neighborhood...

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01 Aug What is Grog? + Navy Grog Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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What is Grog? I can't remember exactly how it came about, but over our drinks at Waypoint--not any of which were either a punch or grog--the group of us ended up pondering what exactly grog is, and how it differs from a punch. None of us...

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28 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Green Isaac’s Special Cocktail Recipe

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Hemingway Drinks: Green Isaac's Special Cocktail Recipe We've spent this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks...

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27 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: Classic, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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Hemingway Drinks: Cuba Libre Cocktail Recipe We're spending this week celebrating the larger than life exploits of one of the brightest stars in the drinkers' constellation by sharing five of our favorite recipes from Philip Greene's To Have and Have Another, a tour of the drinks from...

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