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Ice Technique
Cocktails

What Type of Ice Is Right for Your Cocktail?

Cracked, crushed or cubed? Large rock or Kold-Draft? Brad Thomas Parsons talks to some of the country's top bartenders about when to use each type of ice.

  • story: Brad Thomas Parsons
  • photo: Lizzie Munro
home bartenders obsessives
Cocktails

Home Bartending Goes Hardcore

As the craft cocktail movement continues to march on, amateur enthusiasts are continuing to multiply. From amassing 600-plus bottles of rare spirits to thousands of Instagram followers, Dan Saltzstein explores…

  • story: Dan Saltzstein
  • photo: Multiple
Cocktails

House Cocktail Hack: Spring Edition

Welcome to "House Cocktail Hack," a seasonal series that challenges bartenders to make the most of a home bar's limited resources. Up first, Greg Best, Pamela Wiznitzer and Matt Piacentini…

  • story: Punch Staff
  • photos: Daniel Krieger
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How Not to Be an Amateur Home Bartender

The gap between the drinks you make in your kitchen and the ones you get at a fancy bar often seems impossible to close, but just a few things make…

  • story: Echo Thomas
news

Make (Nearly) Perfect Ice at Home

First, accept that your most meticulous efforts will probably never produce the same pristine, crystal-clear results you lust after in cocktail bars (the professionals use chainsaws). If you can live…

  • story: Echo Thomas
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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