St. Kevin's Cocktail Recipe In celebration of tomorrow's St. Patrick's Day, we've been enjoying Glenadalough Irish whiskey this week. St. Patrick is, of course, the patron saint of Ireland. The patron saint of Glendalough, though, is St. Kevin. St. Patrick's legendary nature miracle was clearing Ireland...
Revisiting Dry Vermouth Pretty much our first cocktail writing project came about when it occurred to us, after years of grabbing the closest vermouth on the shelf, to ask, 'What's the difference between all of these vermouths and which should we be buying?' We conducted a...
Lucien Gaudin Cocktail Recipe This Prohibition-era cocktail is named after an Olympic fencer who was very popular at the time of the cocktail's creation. There may be no deeper connection between the drink and the fencer than that the bartender thought that both of them were really...
Daisy Week: Introduction A couple of weeks ago, we tried out our Lyon Distilling curacao on a Holland Gin Daisy. We enjoyed our Holland Gin Daisy so much that we decided we needed to look a little further into the Daisy. We discovered that the Daisy...
Lyon Liqueurs: Curacao A while ago, Lyon Distilling, a rum maker on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was kind enough to provide us with samples of most of their products. We had such a good time tasting, experimenting with, and writing about their excellent and interesting rums that...
Liquor 101: Soda Siphon As we mentioned earlier this week, we were so excited on Christmas morning to find all sorts of new bar tools under the tree. We talked already about our first experiments with our new whipped cream dispenser. Today, we're playing with our...
Dexis Consulting Grand Opening One of our favorite things to do is design custom cocktail menus for parties. We think that cocktails that suit the tastes of the host or the theme of the party make the party more special and enjoyable, and are more fun...
Making Your French Cocktail Dreams Come True All week long we've been recounting a fabulous two weeks in France and sharing all of the equally fabulous things we learned about French drinking. Coming back from 16 days of frolicking around the French countryside where anytime is...
Negroni Week: Latin Negroni Cocktail Recipe It's Negroni Week! All around the world, 5000 bars and restaurants are serving up their favorite version or variant of the drink that Count Camillo Negroni (alleged) created in Florence in 1919. We're joining in the fun, by posting our...
Highball Week: Anejo Highball Cocktail Recipe If you're reading this blog, whether you know it or not you have Dale DeGroff to thank. Not so long ago, 'hard liquor' is what you used to get drunk as quickly as possible, and a 7 and 7 was...