Tip Your Bartender: Beaker & Gray
Beaker & Gray’s riff on the Daiquiri incorporates the flavors of coffee, pineapple and plantains for an even more tropical spin on the classic cocktail.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
More Than One Way to Mai Tai
There are countless complicated riffs on the iconic cocktail. Here are three that take a pared back approach.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Tip Your Bartender: Empire State South
Empire State South’s summery Garden Collins includes nuanced touches that add character and depth, but are easily executed at home.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: The In Between
A mainstay of The In Between’s menu, the Bad Mama Jama is updated seasonally to highlight different spirits, jams and herbs.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Johnny’s Gold Brick
Johnny’s Gold Brick gives their Gibson a dose of housemade onion brine alongside the traditional pickled onion garnish.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
The Flaming Dr Pepper, Explained
How could the combination of beer, amaretto and overproof rum, set ablaze, not have a story to tell?
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Nightmoves, New York
Nightmoves’ Orlando Franklin McCray reimagines the Presidente cocktail to bring it in line with modern sensibilities.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
A Spritz Divided
Where do the drinking traditions of France and Italy converge and diverge? David Lebovitz and Brad Thomas Parsons talk amer and amaro, apéro and aperitivo.
- story: Brad Thomas Parsons
- photos: Ed Anderson
It’s Tiki, But Easier
Meet your new summer companion: a collection of 60 classic and modern tropical cocktails retooled for at-home ease.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Lizzie Munro
Tip Your Bartender: Paradise Lounge, New York
This Paradise Lounge original features a rum blend of Banks 5, Banks 7 and Santa Teresa 1796.
- story: Punch Staff
Tip Your Bartender: The Beehive, San Francisco
Emilio Salehi’s rum Negroni is elevated by two simple at-home upgrades: the spirit is fat-washed with coconut oil, and sweet vermouth gets a quick infusion of coffee.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley
Tip Your Bartender: Pour Brothers Community Tavern, Fort Collins, CO
Wild raspberries along the trails in Rocky Mountain National Park provide inspiration for this simple, elegant sour.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Nick Hensley