hot drinks

Five Historic Hot Drinks Revamped for Today

Thoughtful hot cocktails, as popular as the Cosmopolitan in past eras, have since fallen by the wayside. At New York's The Dead Rabbit, though, Jack McGarry and Sean Muldoon have…

• story: Punch Staff
• photos: Lizzie Munro

Excellent Negus

This lengthened bishop cocktail from The Dead Rabbit gets its kick from sherry and cognac sweetened with vanilla syrup and balanced with lemon and nutmeg.

See How a Proper Irish Coffee is Made, Buena Vista Style

San Francisco's Buena Vista Café has been making the classic Irish whiskey drink since 1952. Watch how the pros build a line of perfect Irish Coffees.

• story: Eric Wolfinger
• photo: Eric Wolfinger

The Buena Vista Café: America’s Irish Coffee Mecca

At San Francisco's historic Buena Vista Café, the Irish Coffee has become its own American ritual.

• story: Leslie Pariseau
• photos: Eric Wolfinger

The Hot Nerds of Holiday Cocktails

The oft-dismissed category of winter cocktails are back, batter-buttered and hotter than ever.

• story: Punch Staff
• photo: Daniel Krieger

Hot Buttered Rum

Is there anything sexier than a glass of melted butter mixed with warm golden spirits? No, we think not.

Wassail

This simple, steamy combination—whose name denotes drunken revelry—of oxidized sherry, tart apple cider and spicy cinnamon is about as iconic as they come.

Glogg

If glogg, a mulled and spiced punch, does not immediately conjure Vikings or some later breed of burly, bearded Nordic men, nothing will.

Smoking Bishop

A Dickens-approved roasted clove and orange infused port punch, warmed and mulled with baking spices and further fortified with red wine.

Bergamot Blazer

Seattle bartender Andrew Bohrer's tea-infused take on Jerry Thomas's flaming Blue Blazer.