2015’s Best Reads on Drinks and Drinking
This year, we discovered a vineyard in the middle of a war zone, dug into why craft beer labeling is prone to misogyny, pondered why we talk about wine the…
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Daniel Krieger
This year, we discovered a vineyard in the middle of a war zone, dug into why craft beer labeling is prone to misogyny, pondered why we talk about wine the…
Eating and drinking for a living is fraught with all sorts of hazards. Like banana dolphins. And generally overdoing it. A handful of professionals look back at 2015 to determine…
In "Bartender's Choice," we challenge some of our favorite bartenders with a drink order, and see what they come up with. This round: Meaghan Dorman, Karen Fu and Israel Morales…
From Escoffier's slender-necked ice swans to vodka chugged by way of Rapunzel's frozen locks? Drew Lazor on the history of ice sculpting, and the modern rise of the ice luge…
For those impromptu Christmas cocktail needs, we've pulled together a suite of drinks—classic to modern, shaken to stirred, hot to literally flaming—that feel properly suited to the year's most obsessed-over…
There was once a time when the flowing bowl was as closely associated with celebration as Champagne. For us, that day never left. From a retooled 17th-century recipe to a…
Rather than simply changing with the seasons, some notable cocktail bars are adopting menus that adhere to a (often intangible) theme, like Route 66 or Civil War treason, where the…
In "Bartender's Choice," we challenge some of our favorite bartenders with a drink order and see what they come up with. This round: a holiday special, as Boilermaker, Mace and…
For ages the drinking game has united humans in riotous, often misguided consumption. In our monthly column "House Rules," Drew Lazor explores the history and pleasures of drinking games throughout…
In "Drink Police," we revisit bygone bar manuals to see how they've withstood the test of time. This edition: The Stork Club Bar Book (c. 1946), a window into the…
Every bar sports marginal bottles that elude even the most seasoned drink-makers. That is, until someone dusts them off and uses them in a new way. In "Bringing It Back…
No cocktail should be relegated to a certain time of year—not even those whose whole identity rests on beaches and blenders. Here, we've transformed some of the summer's most iconic…