Here’s how to use ingredients from your fridge and entire kitchen to create great new cocktails by muddling ingredients as part of your cocktail recipes.
Simple Syrup – The Step-by-Step Guide
A detailed guide on how to make regular and flavored simple syrup at home. Easy instructions, preparation and storage tips.
Pineapple Mint Julep
How to make a Pineapple Mint Julep. A terrific summer drink. Bourbon, pineapple juice and simple syrup. Easy to make. Boozy and fruity.
Guest Post from a Pro: Punch
Jeff Grindley was our masterful bartender at Atomic Liquors in Las Vegas last month. Our review of our great visit to the bar is here. Jeff kindly volunteered to write a guest post for us and chose a
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 ingr
Blueberry Smash
Here at Consumatorium labs, we are dedicated to the research of the finest cocktails that anybody can make. Recently, a friend asked for suggestions for drinks made with blueberries, which are now fre
Cocktails for an Outing
Sometimes the amateur mixologist is called upon to prepare cocktails for an outing, such as a picnic, road trip, or camping trip. Since you cannot have your entire bar available in such circumstances,
Mint Simple Syrup
In some ways this is almost too simple to devote a post to, but I know that I resisted making syrup for a while, so my hope is that describing how easy it is will help you take the plunge.
Mint Simple
East Meets West
I love the taste of ginger and had been thinking of picking up a bottle of ginger liqueur for a while (Domain de Canton in particular) to see what kinds of alcoholic taste fantasies I could fulfill (g
Table Scraps #1
Sometimes you’re at a friend’s house, it’s cocktail hour, and all he or she has in the back of a bottom kitchen cabinet is the most random collection of liquor you’ve ever seen. You should view this n