Punch Week: What is Arrack? This week, we're familiarizing ourselves with the cocktail's predecessor, punch. We're not talking about the jungle juice served from a trash can to a solo cup at your first college party, but a mellow blend of spirit, citrus, spice, and sugar...
Punch Week: An Introduction to Punch We've never been much for punch. The word evokes rainbow sherbet and 7-Up or, even worse, concoctions served out of plastic trash cans at college parties. If there's one thing we avoid in a drink, it's consuming it out of...
Cask Aging We promised you in our write-up of Experimental Cocktail Bar (which fees like ages ago! Take us back to France!) that we were going to do some experimenting with cocktail aging. We haven't forgotten. How could we? While the barrel-aged cocktail was a new experience...
Wigle's Afterglow Ginger Whiskey One of the innovations of our friends at Pittsburgh's Wigle Whiskey is to release spirits on a seasonal schedule, rather like breweries do. They get their inspiration for these seasonal releases two ways: good, old fashioned brainstorming; or through market research done...
Where You Should Be Drinking: Sazon in Santa Fe Stop. Stop what you're doing, and book a trip to Santa Fe. I went there last year and fell in love (here and here). And then I went there again this year, and my love grew all...
Lyon Sailor Reserve Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The sad news is that after today, we're out...
Lyon Overproof Oak Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their overproof oak rum, and then mix it...
Lyon Overproof White Rum This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their overproof silver, and then mix it...
Lyon White and Dark Rums This week we're celebrating the fresh, clean-slate revival of American rums by tasting and mixing with some rums given to us by Lyon Distilling, a craft rum maker in Saint Michaels on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Today, we'll taste their silver and dark rum,...
Say Hello to Lyon Rum When we lived in Boston, some of our favorite days were what we called 'Beach and Rides.' On Monday holidays, or when the weekend weather was particularly beautiful--especially at the beginning of the summer when we were celebrating the new warmth or...