The Best Dive Bars in Seattle
It's important to have a few oases where nobody knows your name—anonymous, but spirited dives where you can pound a beer and be on your way (or sit stagnant for the next…
- story: Talia Baiocchi
Why Was the Aviation Google Zeitgeist’s #1 Cocktail in 2013?
How, after never having placed in the top 10 before, did the Aviation—a classic, but obscure purple-hued gin drink—edge out all of the competition?
- story: Leslie Pariseau
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Ease Your Winter Blues with a Cocktail (or Five)
We're not suggesting you drown your January sorrows. But here are five of our favorite winter drinks just in case.
- story: Punch Staff
- photo: Daniel Krieger
Crimson and Clover
This Gin Fizz-inspired cocktail contains an added layer for the winter season—equivalent to a mulled wine snowsuit.
The (Totally Unofficial) LEGO Bartender Collection
Brad Thomas Parsons talks with Andrew Bohrer, bartender, spirits educator and confessed AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO) about casting the world’s top bartenders in plastic.
- story: Brad Thomas Parsons
- photo: Andrew Bohrer
Rye Whiskey Syrup
Equal parts rye and sugar, this strong play on simple syrup is a necessary component of the Bitter Handshake, a recipe from Brad Thomas Parsons' book, Bitters.
Bitter Handshake
Bartender Andrew Bohrer developed this after-dinner Fernet old-fashioned digestif of sorts, with an ingenious rye whiskey syrup subbing in for the standard simple syrup.
Blood Orange Reduction
This jewel-colored winter citrus reduction is one part of the Bitter Handshake, a cocktail by Andrew Bohrer from Brad Thomas Parsons' book, Bitters.
