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...
Garrick Club Punch Recipe As we mentioned in our special week on the topic not so long ago, we're late but enthusiastic converts to punch. We long stood firmly on the cocktail side of the argument; then we met a true, honest-to-goodness punch from its 18th century...
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...
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...
Gin Sling Cocktail Recipe This week, we're drinking our way along the evolution of the cocktail, from those old fashioned mixtures of a spirit, sugar, and something else, to bubbly highballs, and eventually to the fancy, straight up drinks we now think of as 'cocktails.' And...
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...