The Orchard Highball Cocktail Recipe Like all good urbanites of a certain type, there's nothing we like better as a way to celebrate autumn than getting out into the countryside and pretending we're farmers for half a day, picking our own apples and pumpkins and taking tractor...
Our Summer in France Cocktail Recipe When we were ordering our brunch drinks at Bearnaise, one drink caught our eye that we didn't end up ordering, mostly because we're on a tireless search to find the perfect Bloody Mary; so one of our drink slots is...
Three Days in Pittsburgh Ever since we first met our friends at Wigle Whiskey, we've been looking for the right moment to make a visit out to their Pittsburgh distillery. Since it's really just a four hour drive away, it's taken far too long; but in...
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...
Summer Drink Cocktail Recipe: the Greyhound Rescue Highball Week may have ended on Friday, but our enthusiasm for tall, ice-filled glasses hasn't. Maybe something that we should have mentioned during highball week is that, in case you want to try to design your own highball, the...
Highball Week: Negroni Swizzle Cocktail Recipe We're suckers for a Negroni. We, as we've mentioned, love the way that it's finely balanced proportions invite experimentation; but we also love it in its original form, with bitter Campari and sweet and sour vermouth playing off of one...
Highball Week: Picon Punch Cocktail Recipe It's very rare to find a cocktail that, like the Picon Punch, is amaro based. Amari are a class of mostly Italian, herbal, bitter liqueurs. Don't let the 'bitter' part scare you away. While some of them can in fact be...
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...
Highball Week: the Paloma Cocktail Recipe The Paloma is the Margarita's highball cousin. With citrus, lime, and a little bit of salt, it's the perfect refresher on a scorching hot day. While recipes usually call for Squirt or Fresca, we like to keep it on the...
Highball Week: Moscow Mule Cocktail Recipe Having spent a week using only our old fashioned glasses, we felt it was only fair to give our highballs a chance. To be honest, we're a bit biased against highballs. In fact, for a long time, one of our rules...
