Liquor 101

01 Mar Spirits Week: Gin + Classic Gin Martini Cocktail Recipe

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

Spirits Week: Gin Last week, we gave a brief overview of the three big categories of liquors, their distinctives, and the part they each play in cocktails. Over the course of this week, we'll be going into more detail on one of those three categories: the base...

29 Feb Spirits Week: Introduction and Vodka + Ginger Martini Cocktail Recipe

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

Spirits Week: Introduction and Vodka Last week, we gave a brief overview of the three big categories of liquors, their distinctives, and the part they each play in cocktails. Over the course of this week, we'll be going into more detail on one of those three categories:...

25 Feb Drink Of the Week: Moon Over Martinez

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

Drink Of the Week: Moon Over Martinez Having just learned about Don Ciccio and Figli's wonderful amare, we wanted to put one of them straight to work. We couldn't think of a better partner for Don Ciccio's liqueurs than Wigle Whiskey's spirits. These are two companies who...

24 Feb Don Ciccio & Figli: the art, the craft, the story of small batch, all natural liqueurs

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

Don Ciccio & Figli: the art, the craft, the story of small batch, all natural liqueurs "Art and food present effective tool kits for navigating extreme and unpredictable circumstances: both bring people together, stir curiosity, and can incite positive change. The practical side of food can...

21 Feb Liquor 101: the Big 3 Liquor Categories and Understanding Cocktails

Posted at 00:32h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Building a bar by Roberts & June

Liquor 101: the Big 3 Liquor Categories and Understanding Cocktails We noticed that we throw the terms spirit, liqueur, and fortified wines all the time, but that we've never really stopped and explained what these things are, how they're different from one another, and what they...

12 Feb Drink of the Week: Not Your Red Roses Cocktail Recipe

Posted at 07:00h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

Drink of the Week: Not Your Red Roses It's bitters week. First, Embitterment taught us all about what makes bitters special. Then, to prove the point, we got this little beauty in a goodie package from our friends at Wigle. As soon as we tasted it, we...

09 Feb Liquor 101: Bitters, with special guest experts Embitterment DC

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

Liquor 101: Bitters, with special guests Embitterment DC We're spirits people. Or maybe we're liqueur people. Either way, it's always been the big bottles of liquor that capture our attention first. But recently, through the influence of people like the guys at Embitterment (fellow Union Kitchen...

05 Feb The Blizzard Challenge: what we learned about your home bars + Snowy Kraken Cocktail Recipe

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

The Blizzard Challenge: what we learned about your home bars During the recent blizzard, we made an offer to our fellow homebound, but thirsty, snowstorm victims: tell us what's in your liquor cabinet, and we'll suggest a drink to make. It was a fun way for us...

31 Jan What they drink in Iceland (Brennivin) & do you want to drink it

Posted at 04:09h in Blog, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Liquor Reviews by Roberts & June

What they drink in Iceland (Brennivin) & do you want to drink it? In our very earliest posts (here and here and here), we talked about our idea that you can have a quite adequate home bar if you buy eight basic bottles, and then a...

22 Jan What We’ve Been Drinking: Tequila Old Fashioned

Posted at 13:23h in Blog, Cocktail Recipes, Cocktail Recipes: R&J Original, Liquor 101, Liquor 101: Cocktail History by Roberts & June

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...