Category: Spirits
Baileys on the Rocks
Baileys on the rocks is the simplest, and arguably the best, way to drink Irish cream: just pour it over ice in a rocks glass and sip. No shaker, no m [...]
Dry Manhattan
If you ask a serious bartender what cocktail tells them the most about a customer's palate, a significant number of them will say the Manhattan. It's [...]
Corpse Reviver No. 2
The Corpse Reviver is one of the great classic cocktails , bright, bittersweet, and deceptively easy to drink. Equal parts gin, Cointreau, Lillet Blan [...]
Dark and Stormy Cocktail
Few cocktails are as simple, or as satisfying, as the Dark and Stormy. Dark rum, spicy ginger beer, and a squeeze of fresh lime, built straight in the [...]
12 Year Old Scotch: What the Age Really Means, and the Best Bottles to Try
Twelve. Walk down the whisky aisle and that number is everywhere — Glenfiddich 12, The Glenlivet 12, Macallan 12, Balvenie 12. For a lot of people, tw [...]
The 5 Best Gin Cocktails (And How to Make Each One Properly)
Gin is the most versatile spirit on the back bar. Its botanical, juniper-led character can carry a drink that is bone-dry and spirit-forward, or one t [...]
Red Lion Cocktail
Every now and then you come across a cocktail that makes you genuinely angry it fell out of fashion. The Red Lion cocktail is one of those drinks. Cr [...]
Benedict Cocktail
There is a particular kind of cocktail that doesn't announce itself. No elaborate garnish, no five-ingredient shaker situation, no technique that requ [...]
Acapulco Cocktail
Some cocktails taste like a Tuesday night on the couch. The Acapulco tastes like a holiday you haven't booked yet but absolutely should.
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Classic Margarita
There are a handful of cocktails that have genuinely earned their place as permanent fixtures of the drinks world. The Margarita is one of them. Sharp [...]