We hope that all our readers have a terrific Christmas celebration. Please don’t consume too much, but definitely mix a fun drink or two for the holiday.
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I don't know what it takes to become a professional mixologist, but I'm going to night school at my own home bar to achieve that status. For now, I'm an amateur cocktail creator who enjoys learning about new drinks and rediscovering the classics.
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How Much Juice Comes From a Lime? We answer the age-old question that every home bartender wants to know (757)
Naked and Famous Cocktail Combines Mezcal, Aperol, Chartreuse and Lime. A great summer drink. (706)
Deep Eddy Ruby Red and Soda Here’s a quick summer cooler that couldn't be much easier. It combines the pink grapefruit taste of Deep Eddy’s infused vodka with soda to make an easy, refreshing cocktail. Deep Eddy’s Ruby Red has a strong grapefruit taste and is fabulous straight up. The lighter drink mixed with soda helps make that great taste last… (298)
American Trilogy The American Trilogy is decidedly not a classic cocktail. Created in 2007 at New York's Little Branch bar, it's a relatively new drink with a name that is a bit of a conundrum. While it's primary ingredients, Rye and Laird's Apple Brandy are truly all-'merican, the only other ingredients are orange bitters and sugar. If you choose… (185)
Fig-Infused Bourbon As we've discussed before, infusing your booze seems intimidating and maybe even difficult. Trust me when I tell you it's not. I know from personal experience - I'm inherently lazy, after all. To prove it to you, one of my drinks is named Apathy, and its ingredients are simply whatever is already sitting on the bar… (163)
Over the last few years, we've done plenty of global bar hopping. Our main goal, of course, was to discover new cocktails and learn how they're made. … [...]
Every cocktail recipe has two kinds of ingredients: liquids and history. Since the L'Allegro cocktail is my own mix I know the history, and I’ll start … [...]
About 25 years ago, while on a flight returning from a business trip to Mexico City, I was having the usual get-to-know-you, pre-flight conversation … [...]
It's just hard to beat New York City when it comes to excellent craft cocktail bars. It's not that every bar is outstanding, but the fact that there … [...]
Walking into any decent cocktail bar and ordering a Brooklyn Cocktail with Amer Picon will almost assuredly elicit a sad story about the … [...]
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