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...
The Granate State Cocktail After yesterday's post, we have a lot of very tasty, very fresh, very inexpensive grenadine left over. Before adding our vodka to the grenadine, as Annalaura suggests for preservation, we thought we'd make a couple more cocktails. Today's makes use of another new arrival...
Watermelon Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe Before Memorial Day we kicked off our Summer Cocktail series, and since then we’ve been working to add to the collection in order to make summer 2016 the. best. summer. ever. You’ve joined us for Watermelon Week because what summer is...
Arriba! a Summer Cocktail Recipe As we've mentioned, we used some of Wigle's standards to spice up our cocktail class drinks. We love the way Wigle's day-in, day-out spirits bring just a little twist in an unexpected direction to drinks. Even more than that, we love the...
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...
Pittsburgh's Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe We mentioned yesterday that it took what seems to us a very long time before it occurred to anyone to try to mix multiple liquors together in a single drink. To give due credit to our mixological forefathers, they had much more material...
Old Fashioned Week: The Mole Old Fashioned Cocktail Recipe We're celebrating the classic cocktail the Old Fashioned by making it in many fun and modern forms. Earlier we told you about the standard old fashioned and how there is some debate as to whether the original...
Drink of the Week: Double Wigle Mai Tai It was an exciting day at Roberts and June: Wigle delivery day. As people who always like trying something new in the spirits world, we love the way the folks at Wigle are constantly rolling out new ideas. Rather like a...
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...
Cocktail Experiments: Hopped Whiskey There's a lot to like about our friends at Wigle. While there are plenty of things to like about them as people, two of the top thing we like about their liquor are their rigorous devotion to local--native even--ingredients, and their almost boundless...