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
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
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
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’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
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
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
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
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
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
