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Red Wine Syrup Cocktail
Cocktails

Upgrade Your Cocktail With Five Easy Wine Syrups

How to turn leftover wine into versatile syrups, and the drinks to try them in.

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Cocktails

The Case for Cordials

Why the world’s top bars are resurrecting these DIY combinations of sugar, acid and flavoring.

  • story: Kara Newman
  • photos: Ola O Smit
No Waste Cocktail Recipe
Cocktails

Science Your Way to a Zero-Waste Cocktail

The White Lyan team shares their advice on how to turn food waste into cocktail ingredients at home.

  • story: Maja Jaworska
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
Regal Shake Cocktail Technique
Cocktails

Hack Your Drink: The “Regal Shake” Technique

Incorporating citrus peels into drink-making, beyond the express, can offer a shortcut to greater complexity in shaken and stirred drinks.

  • story: Kara Newman
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
scout wine
article

Scout’s Blackberry and Pine Wine

This dry berry ferment from London bar Scout combines seasonal blackberries with autumnal pine sprigs.

  • story: Chloe Frechette
  • photo: Scout
don's gardenia mix
Cocktails

Rediscovering Don’s “Other” Essential Tiki Mix

An essential ingredient of the Pearl Diver cocktail, Gardenia Mix—a nearly forgotten amalgam of honey, butter and spices—is finding its way back into bars.

  • story: Roger Kamholz
  • photo: Daniel Krieger
don's mix recipe
Cocktails

Should Don’s Mix Not Be a Mix At All?

In tiki's heyday, the recipes for proprietary syrups were fiercely guarded, including that for Donn Beach's "Don's Mix." Now that the once-elusive mix of grapefruit and cinnamon is no longer…

  • story: Carey Jones
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
don's mix recipe
article

Don’s Mix

This recipe for the classic tiki ingredient was decoded by Jeff “Beachbum” Berry from Don the Beachcomber’s original.

  • story: Bianca Prum
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
DIY Grenadine
Cocktails

The New DIY Grenadine

Once synonymous with artificial flavor, grenadine—a syrup made from fresh pomegranate juice—has received a modern makeover. Carey Jones on how bartenders have elevated their housemade versions, and how to make…

  • story: Carey Jones
  • photos: Lizzie Munro
red hook cocktail milk & honey
Cocktails

Reinventing the French Cure-All: DIY Amer Picon

Now that Amer Picon—the classic French bitter orange liqueur—can no longer be found on American shelves, bartenders across the country have taken to recreating their own. Veronica Mewes on the…

  • story: Veronica Meewes
  • photo: Gilles Péris y Saborit
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch
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Not Your Grandfather’s Blended Scotch

Long considered an afterthought among serious drinkers, the blended Scotch category is slowly becoming a hotbed for innovation.

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