Liquor 101

24 Jul Hemingway Drinks: Harry’s Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe

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Hemingway Drinks: Harry's Jack Rose Cocktail Recipe While we were doing our research for Daiquiri Week, Ernest Hemingway really caught our attention. How could he not? Legend has it that he once consumed 17 of them in a single sitting at the Floridita bar. In honor...

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17 Jul South Hollow Spirits Distillery | Cape Cod, MA

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South Hollow Spirits Distillery When we were deliberating two years ago whether or not to move from Boston to DC, the job opportunities and the sense of adventure eventually swayed us in the direction of making the move. But it was no easy decision. To ease...

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11 Jul Daiquiri Week: Scandinavian Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe

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Daiquiri Week: Scandinavian Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe To celebrate the arrival of high summer, we're stocking up on rum and limes and mixing ourselves Daiquiris all week. You might be most familiar with the Daiquiri from it's sloppy mid-modern period in which it was dispensed from slush machines,...

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10 Jul Daiquiri Week: the 1896 Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe

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Daiquiri Week: 1896 Daiquiri Cocktail Recipe After a somewhat cool and wet May here in DC, summer came roaring back by mid-June. The occasional, and often elusive, thunderstorm being the only natural relief from the beating sun and the constant damp blanket of humidity, we've turned...

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29 Jun Royal Clover Club Cocktail Recipe

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Royal Clover Club Cocktail Recipe In our search for a good recipe to feature Glendalough's new Wild Botanical Gin, we ran across this one. It's not a subtle enough drink to allow a fine gin to distinguish itself; so we went with the more gin-centric, delicately...

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28 Jun Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin + Fairbanks no 2 Cocktail Recipe

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Glendalough Wild Botanical Gin We're eternally grateful to Glendalough, the craft Irish whiskey maker, for giving us  a whole new appreciation for what an Irish whiskey could be. I think craft Irish whiskey, with it smooth and companionable style, has been our default whiskey for cocktail mixing...

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27 Jun Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe

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Mary Pickford Cocktail Recipe Mary Pickford was a big deal. This huge silent film star was one of the first movie stars to get billing in a movie; before her, most actors were anonymous. In a time when the studios usually had actors at their mercy,...

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26 Jun Liquor 101: Aquavit + The Complement Cocktail Recipe

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Liquor 101: Aquavit Given how much time we spend drinking, making, and writing about cocktails, it always surprises us and mostly delights us when we discover a new spirit. Aquavit has definitely been one of the most pleasant of those discoveries. Aquavit is the traditional spirit in...

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02 Jun Tiki Week: How Tiki Died and Rose Again + Cuevas Cocktail Recipe

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Tiki Week: How Tiki Died and Rose Again We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping...

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01 Jun Tiki Week: By the way, What is Tiki? + Hibiscus Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe

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Tiki Week: By the way, what is Tiki? We're not island types. It's not a mistake that our entire adult lives have been spent in big, hard-charging, businesslike cities. We know, however, that a key to successful urban living is, every once in a while, escaping...

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