"The first rule of boomerangs is that you don't talk about boomerangs." Robert Simonson digs into the bartender's secret ritual of covertly messengering cocktails from bar to bar via trusted…
Over the last year a crop of booze delivery apps—from Drizly to MiniBar to Swill—have sprung up, begging the question: Why now? Will Gordon ponders the boom's merits and future.
In a world rife with environmental concerns, allocating agricultural resources to fuel $15 craft cocktails is difficult to justify. Bartender Bobby Heugel presents the environmental, economic & social challenges to…
“Craft spirits” have gone from obscurity to ubiquity over the past several years. But what exactly defines a craft spirit? With money and reputation riding on the answer, American distillers…
Vodka has become the contentious spirit at the center of a cocktail culture war. On one side: the vodka drinkers, derided as incurious rubes. On the other: the cocktail enthusiasts,…
(n.): Not a true gin, but a tart-sweet liqueur flavored with black thorn sloe berries (a relative to the plum) and made with a gin base. Brownish to ruby red…
Decades of etiquette and marketing about spirits, cocktails and bartending have established stereotypes about how women like to and should drink. Shanna Farrell explores the history of women behind—and in…
What does your favorite liquor say about you? A list of assumptions by the Huffington Post goes on to predict that if you like vodka, you're new to drinking or…
All too often, our friends tell us we smell like booze. Well, of course we do. But from now on, it will be intentional. For all the lushes you know…
The U.S. has become an unlikely homebase for absinthe's new avant-garde. Mixing a distinct sense of American innovation with tradition, the country's distillers are shaping the modern identity of this…
