The Best Drink Books of Spring and Summer 2018
From a portrait of New York’s dive bars to a cocktail-focused spotlight on gender equality, here’s a look at the most important drink books of the season.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
How to Use Drambuie in Cocktails
The 411 on how to use Scotch-based Drambuie liqueur—beyond the Rusty Nail.
- story: Kara Newman
- photo: The Whisky Exchange
The Westvleteren Hacker
How one man used multiple phone lines, a private driver and five different license plates to secure caseloads of one of the world’s rarest beers.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Jordan Wilms
Science Your Way to a Better Aged Cocktail
Team Lyan shares their advice on how to age everything from a citrus cocktail to a Manhattan.
- story: Robin Honhold
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Bar Review: The Trouble with the “Hyper-Local” Cocktail
A Rake’s Bar dedicates itself wholly to regional ingredients, forgoing the likes of simple syrup and citrus. But are the drinks any good?
- story: Robert Simonson
- photos: Reema Desai
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Is There a Middle Way Through Wine’s Naturalist Divide?
How a number of today’s wine programs are bridging the gap between natural and not.
- story: Jon Bonné
- illustration: Maria Hergueta
Five Cocktails from Spring’s Hottest New Bars
From a French-inflected Collins to a thoroughly modern highball and more.
- story: Punch Staff
- photos: Lizzie Munro
What We Talk About When We Talk About “Bitch Beer”
Craft beer’s bro-code is still enforcing outdated typecasts on what we define as good beer, bad beer and who drinks which.
- story: Gray Chapman
- illustration: Lydia Ortiz
Welcome to Mezcalifornia
The growers and distillers determined to make great mezcal—in California.
- story: Bryce T. Bauer
- photos: Craig Reynolds
The Most Notable New Bars in America, Spring/Summer 2018
From taprooms to tiki bars, this season brings a wave of new openings across the country.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
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- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Reema Desai
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The express-lane version of the notorious RGF.
- story: Kara Newman
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