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Drink of the Week: The Jasmine Cocktail (Paul Harrington’s Original)
When I get into online debates with my fellow left-leaners or culture geeks, I’ll often think to myself (or say in words) that their argument lacks a sense of proportion. Indeed, proportion is possibly...
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Drink of the Week: The Liberal (Old School Version)
At the start of Labor Day weekend 2014, I gave you the updated version of the Liberal, a classic cocktail that I still think fits very nicely with a holiday that was created to honor the American labor...
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Jim Beam shot watch eliminates need for Apple Watch
The year’s most anticipated tech launch has arrived. With a revolutionary new drinkable wearable, Jim Beam is advancing the technology of shot pouring and drinking, providing bourbon lovers a...
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Drink of the Week: The Genever Old Fashioned
Before there was gin, there was genever — sometimes also called jenever — a concoction that is similar and yet different from the ubiquitous clear booze we now enjoy in our martinis and G&Ts. One...
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Drink of the Week: The Improved Genever Cocktail
If you Google “improved cocktail,” you will find a number of somewhat differing drinks featuring the most venerable of the base spirits (i.e., whiskey, brandy and gin) or genever, aka “Holland gin.”...
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Drink of the Week: The Improved Cocktail (Take 2)
So, as we learned last week, once upon a time, the term “cocktail” was not today’s generic term for any mixed alcoholic beverage but instead was a drink that called for a base spirit, bitters,...
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Drink of the Week: The Fancy Free Cocktail
I love cocktails, but after an exceptionally tiring day, I don’t always love making them, so it’s nice to have a few options that require minimal effort. While the Old Fashioned, a Martini, and a...
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Drink of the Week: The Cold Brew Negroni
Long before my serious cocktailing days, boozy drinks that featured coffee were a go-to for this caffeine addict. Then and now, I’ve found the effect both invigorating and relaxing and, let me tell...
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Drink of the Week: The Douglas Fairbanks
For those of you who don’t know your early Hollywood history, Douglas Fairbanks was the first true action star of the movies and, like Buster Keaton in his own day and Jackie Chan many years later, a...
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Drink of the Week: The Buster Brown Cocktail
If you’ve heard the name “Buster Brown” at all, you’re probably thinking of a line of kids’ shoes. However, you may not know that these shoes were not named for the guy who started the footwear line....
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Drink of the Week: The October Surprise
Halloween, at least officially, is on Monday, so I have a seasonally appropriate drink of my own creation. It does not reference anything supernatural, but it does reference something scary and...
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Drink of the Week: The Cabaret
It’s just a few days before our fate is decided at the ballot box — or at least that’s usually the way it goes — and so I have a drink that is, cinematic and theatrical associations excluded,...
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Drink of the Week: The New Deal
I begin writing this week’s post just a couple of days before an election that will probably increase the per-capita liquor consumption nationwide among a great many of us, myself very likely included....
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Drink of the Week: The Communist
Okay, so we’ll conclude our series of politically themed drinks with, er, the Communist. And yeah, I forgot this was going to be my last post before Thanksgiving. I won’t even try to connect this one...
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Drink of the Week: The Smokey Martini
It’s the day after Thanksgiving or Black Friday, if you must. That means you’ve likely overindulged in fowl, carbohydrates and possibly heated political arguments with family members. You also might...
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Drink of the Week: The Modern Cocktail
Since famed cocktail super-historian David Wondrich tells us that it dates back to 1905, clearly the Modern Cocktail hasn’t been particularly modern for a very long time. Indeed, at least up to now,...
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Drink of the Week: The Modern Cocktail (No. 1)
This might be a little confusing, but just bear with me. You see, although it wasn’t my intention, it turns out that I’ve began another of my occasional trilogies of cocktails, and these are all called...
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Drink of the Week: The Modern Cocktail (No. 2)
Today, we have part three of our latest series of related cocktails with The Modern Cocktail (No. 2.) If you go back and look at the prior two (The Modern Cocktail and The Modern Cocktail (No. 1)),...
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Drink of the Week: Bobo’s Toddy
Christmas is, of course, just about upon us. Whether you’ve got kids and are struggling to make sure Santa arrives on schedule or a lonely singleton with enough time on his hands to fret about...
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Drink of the Week: Brandy Alexander
The biggest drinking holiday of the year is tomorrow night, and I’m thinking it might be time for something really special, or at least something especially fun to cap off a long day of drinking,...
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