Drink of the Week: The White Elephant (a la Wondrich)
I sing now, for the umpteenth time, of the raw egg white, feared by many, adored by classic cocktail aficionados, and a sure way to get me to sit up and pay attention to almost any cocktail. That’s a...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Ritz Cocktail
What are you willing to give up for a cocktail? If you live in Los Angeles, the answer for the casual fancier of serious mixed beverages might be as high as $17.00 in some joints. If you’re one of the...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Brooklyn Cocktail (First Attempt)
If you don’t think cocktails can be austere, then you’ve obviously never tasted a dry martini. It might be hard to believe for cocktail old timers but, to a newcomer, a dry gin martini is as...
View Article2013 Father’s Day Gift Guide: Booze
With most fathers, you really can’t go wrong giving them booze, especially if they have young kids or teenagers. And for more great ideas, be sure to check out the other categories in our Father’s Day...
View Article2013 Father’s Day Gift Guide: Gadgets
Gadgets dominate our lives, and you can always start these days with dad’s phone. If he has the latest and greatest, don’t even bother. But if he’s still tied to his lame flip phone, then of course you...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Brooklyn Cocktail (Second Attempt)
If at first you don’t completely succeed… Last week’s DOTW was based on Dale DeGroff’s recipe which, in turn, seems to be largely drawn from Harry Craddock’s ultra-old school The Savoy Cocktail Book....
View ArticleA chat with Steve Schneider of “Hey Bartender”
Celebrity chefs are old news. Even so, the idea of a celebrity bartender will strike many people as odd, even if you use the increasingly popular term “mixologist.” Nevertheless, celebrity bartenders...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Old Fashioned (Remixed)
I know this will probably drive me out of the cocktail writers’ club, but this week’s recipe-centric DOTW was preempted by a cold. I know this will make me sound a bit wussy to some of you, but I...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Hornitos Kickstarter Margarita (More than a Little...
The suspense is over. I’m 95% over my cold and back in the saddle and boozing again, this time with another cocktail provided by one of my mysterious liquor-supplying benefactors. In this case, the...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Hornitos Seize Your Margarita
First of all, my apologies that we kind of skipped over July 4th this year. It’s not that I lack love for los Estados Unidos, it’s just that I’ve been dealing with a Mexican-inspired morass. To be...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Old Pal
Can a drink be like an old friend? Should a drink be like an old friend? It’s way too late as I’m writing this to even begin answering those questions, but I can tell you I much prefer the older...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Jupiter
Sometimes the hardest thing about writing and preparing for DOTW is simply picking out the drink. I can spend, it seems, many hours online trolling for a cocktail that won’t take hours to make and...
View ArticleHeartbreaking Dawns hot sauces turn up the heat for Bullz-Eye
We’re always up for trying new foods and flavors at Bullz-Eye.com, so we jumped at the chance to test out Heartbreaking Dawns hot sauces and found ourselves in a heatwave! Hot sauce dates back to...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Rye Sierra
It’s just possible that it has escaped your attention up to this moment, but today is International Beer Day. Of course, for many people, truly every day is International Beer Day, or at least every...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Framboise Franca Bomb
Yes, it’s been an entire week since we saluted International Beer Day. However, as I said last week, for many of you out there every day is some kind of beer day. As it happened, this week’s combo was...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Clover Club (The Hess/Craddock Take, Modified)
Sometimes the difference between one drink and another is miniscule. Take a Martini and put a cocktail onion in it instead of an olive or a lemon twist and it is miraculously transformed into a...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Clover Club (The Rasp-Wiki Take)
If you have a deep aversion to déjà vu, I advise you to take a break from today’s and, yes, next week’s posts. (I haven’t decided yet about the week after that!) You see, I’ve always been fascinated...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Clover Leaf (The Clover Club Trilogy Concludes!)
It’s just about Labor Day weekend and today we have one cocktail that I’ve really labored over. In fact, if you’ve been paying very close attention, you’ve been following us through two different...
View ArticleA Drink of the Week Special Report – A Few Off-the-Beaten Path Cocktails in...
This week’s regularly scheduled Drink of the Week has been preempted by my Labor Day weekend trip to Las Vegas, during which I punctuated lengthy bouts at downtown craps tables with excursions in...
View ArticleDrink of the Week: The Commodore
One fact of boozy life that is both a source of endless fascination and constant befuddlement is that there isn’t a single cocktail recipe that is even remotely agreed upon, much less set in stone....
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