Death in the Gulf Stream Cocktail Recipe Our favorite drink from our time in Detroit was Amanda Mentzer's Worse for Wear. We mentioned in our write-up on it last week that it's based on a Hemingway hangover cure. Looking into it further, we discovered that the...
Where to Drink in Detroit: Mudgie's Deli While sipping our Salt & Cedar at Detroit City Distillery, we asked Lee the bartender where else we should go in Detroit for a good drink. He told us that we should head to Mudgie's, and look for Amanda...
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...
Where to Drink in Athens: The Gin Joint We arrived in Athens with only the barest of plans in place: we knew we wanted to visit the Acropolis; we had a place to stay: and we had a restaurant recommendation and a handful of cocktail bar...
Barbados Rum Punch Cocktail Recipe It took some coaxing and a lot of education, but we've gradually become fans of rum, and more quickly fans of tiki. It's true that tiki drinks can be a bit complicated; they take some preparation--of ingredients certainly, but even psychologically,...
How Much is a Dash? This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always...
Angostura Bitters This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big bottles almost always get the spotlight. Not...
What Bitters and Russian Roulette Have in Common This week we turn our attention to the shelf on the bar where we keep the weird and wonderful collection of small bottles that occupy what we think of as the spice rack of our bar. The big...
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...
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...