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...
F.E.W. Spirits Tasting While Prohibition ended nationally in 1933, some localities decided to keep it going for a while. Take Evanston, IL, for instance. This small city on Chicago's northern border, the headquarters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, kept Prohibition in place until 1972. It's ironic...
Throwing your Drink I wrote at the beginning of the week that I was back in Boston a couple of weekends ago and--though my latest obsession in the Boston cocktail scene is Baldwin & Sons Trading Company--I made it a point to return to an old standard, Drink in...
Whiskey Classics Week: Blackthorn Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. One thing we...
Whiskey Classics Recipe: Opening Cocktail Recipe In a recent effort to expand our whiskey repertoire, we've been trawling the Savoy Cocktail Book for Prohibition era whiskey cocktails. This week, we're sharing with you a handful of our favorites from this collection of unfamiliar classics. This one has...
Whiskey Classics Week As we were designing 'Such a Nasty Woman' for the Magnus cocktail competition, we found ourselves thumbing for inspiration through Harry Craddock's Savoy Cocktail Book, that comprehensive guide to Prohibition era classics. We found that in 1930, like today, gin and rum dominated...
The Russian Hack Cocktail Recipe We're now counting down the days to the election, and, regardless of your stance on it, you're probably more than ready to get the thing over with already. And you're probably going to need a drink or five to get through...
I'm With Her Cocktail Recipe We're now counting down the days to the election. Regardless of your affiliation, regardless of whether you're a professional politician who's put your all into this for the past 18 months or you've been trying your hardest not to get pulled...
The Savoy Gimlet Cocktail Recipe One of our bedrock beliefs is that a cocktail does not have to be high-proof to be serious, sophisticated, and delicious. In an effort to steer lower octane drinkers toward satisfying drinks, last week we proposed a system for substituting base spirits...
Pumpkin Vodka Martini Cocktail Recipe Last week, we did some experiments infusing spirits with pumpkin. We infused the vodka simply as a point of comparison with our main object, rum. But it end up turning out pretty well, with an actual fresh pumpkin flavor quite distinct from...