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Cocktails

We All Deserve a Crusta

Give yourself the gift of a royally sugar-crowned sour.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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The New Whiskey Classics

The evolution of the category’s modern classics, from the Gold Rush to the Paper Plane and beyond.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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How Do You Update a Classic?

Top bartenders weigh in on how to approach modernizing the most iconic cocktails.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

Go Ahead, Shake Your Martini

Defying the rules of convention can yield surprising—and scandalous—results.

  • story: Tom Macy
  • photo: PUNCH
Cocktails

The Tequila Sunrise 2.0 Has Arrived

The disco-era ombre cocktail is back, in many guises.

  • story: Kara Newman
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

Big In Germany

How the Ohio, a virtually unknown, 100-year-old cocktail, became a Deutschland staple.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
Cocktails

Buenos Aires Has Its Very Own Old-Fashioned

Decades after it first debuted, the peculiar preparation has become standard practice in Argentina’s capital city.

  • story: Robert Simonson
  • photo: Macías Crudeli
Cocktails

Five Midcentury Cocktails for the Modern Drinker

Subtle upgrades on the Moscow Mule, Stinger, Rusty Nail and more.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

Mastering Five Essential Winter Classics

Today’s top bartenders share secrets to perfecting some of the season’s most iconic drinks.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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The D List: Bringing Back the Goldfish

Bartender Anu Apte-Elford makes a case for the Goldfish, a Prohibition-era Martini variation that calls for the glittering addition of Goldwasser.

  • story: Drew Lazor
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
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How a quirky Prohibition-era bourbon cocktail came to manifest on U.S. drink menus right now.

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