Our Failed Infused Watermelon Experiment Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series and since then we've been working to add to the collection in order to make summer 2016 the. best. summer. ever. You've joined us for Watermelon Week because what summer is...
Arriba! a Summer Cocktail Recipe As we've mentioned, we used some of Wigle's standards to spice up our cocktail class drinks. We love the way Wigle's day-in, day-out spirits bring just a little twist in an unexpected direction to drinks. Even more than that, we love the...
Pittsburgh's Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe We mentioned yesterday that it took what seems to us a very long time before it occurred to anyone to try to mix multiple liquors together in a single drink. To give due credit to our mixological forefathers, they had much more material...
Cocktail Class with Wigle Whiskey You may have noticed that we really like cocktails. We like drinking cocktails, discovering new ones, and making up our own. We like drinking other people's cocktails, mixing ones for ourselves, and especially making drinks for others. More than any of these,...
Negroni Week! We were recently remarking on the proliferation of new 'holidays.' Things seem to be getting a little crazy. I didn't even know that there was such a thing as Sibling Day until my sister, who's more up on these things than I, posted a...
Liquor 101: Simple Syrup Recipe Even Simpler Than You Think You may have noticed by now that a good number of cocktails call for simple syrup. That's especially true of summer drinks, and even more especially true of summer pitcher drinks. This can be a little...
Homebar Must Haves: Essential Cocktail Tools It's Memorial Day! Congrats to you and your three day weekend. It's the holiday that rings in summer, and in our minds there is absolutely nothing better than summer. Whether you're spending the day actually in the sun or simply...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: Jump for Joy We first encountered this drink at Puritan & Co, a short walk across the train tracks from our beloved Union Square neighborhood in Somerville. I think we only ended up going to Puritan & Co once before moving, but...
Old Fashioned Week: The Traditional Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe We've been on something of an old fashioned kick recently. As we've mentioned before, while we tend to think nowadays of the old fashioned as a whiskey drink, it doesn't have to be. Old fashioneds are the original...
Fortified Wine Week: Vermouth This week, we're giving fortified wines some attention. They're part wine, part brandy, essential to cocktails, and each delicious in their own unique way. We started by talking about fortified wines generally, and then gave each of sherry and port their day in...