Cask-aged Trident For a while now, we've been cycling drinks through our little two liter barrel, trying out the effects of aging on a drink. If you want to try it at home (and we recommend you do. It's a fun science experiment with a unique...
Not Quite Negroni Week: the Luberon Cocktail Recipe It seems we're destined to be a little behind. The first week of June, 6000 bars and restaurants were mixing up one of our favorite cocktails for Negroni Week. We were oblivious until, midweek, we started to see...
Not Quite Negroni Week: The Half Measure Cocktail Recipe It seems we're destined to be a little behind. The first week of June, 6000 bars and restaurants were mixing up one of our favorite cocktails for Negroni Week. We didn't even know it was happening until,...
Not Quite Negroni Week: St. Augustine's Cocktail Recipe It seems we're destined to be a little behind. The first week of June, 6000 bars and restaurants were mixing up one of our favorite cocktails for Negroni Week. We were oblivious until, midweek, we started to see...
Not Quite Negroni Week 'Was that today?' is a question we find ourselves asking all the time. It feels like we're always finding out about something midstream. This happens all the time living in DC, where our main way of figuring out that some special event...
Shochu Negroni Cocktail Recipe Over the course of our many attempts to replicate Bar Goto's Improved Shochu Cocktail, we gained quite an affection for bison grass vodka, barley shochu, and the soft, sweetly vegetal flavor created when the two are combined. We thought it could serve as...
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...
The Bottled Negroni Experiment Out on a double date recently, the other couple told us a cocktail horror story. They had ordered a Negroni at a bar; to their utter disbelief, the bartender took out a glass, filled it with ice, and then poured a pre-mixed...
Negroni Week 2: Eat the Rich + Old City Cocktail Recipe Last week, while we were posting our own Negroni recipes, we were out on the town tasting what other people were offering for Negroni Week. Eat the Rich was our early introduction to the wonderful DC...
Negroni Week 2: Masseria + Count Camillo Cocktail Recipe Last week, while we were posting our own Negroni recipes, we were out on the town tasting what other people were offering for Negroni Week. Masseria is all the rage among our DC friends right now. We haven't...