Reading cocktail books and bartender manuals usually does the trick when mixing drinks at home. But nothing beats a step-by-step video from cocktail expert Simon Ford. Simon recently partnered with Liquor.com to create a series of how-to cocktail videos. Click below for a walk-through guide to crafting three time-honored drinks — the classic Martini, James [...]
Viewfinder: Craft Cocktails in Detroit
The craft cocktail movement has infiltrated America, with quality bars entrenched on both coasts and studding everywhere between. One of the latest to pop up is Detroit’s Sugar House, which opened in October and slings drinks comprised of artisanal spirits, fresh juices, fruits and herbs and house-made syrups. Ice wise, Sugar House bartenders hand-chip 300 [...]
Urbancase Emergency Cocktail Station
It's Five O'Clock Somewhere
Given the latest headlines about the economy, a stiff cocktail is quickly becoming one of the only remaining bastions of calm we men can cling to. The Emergency Cocktail Station ($850) from Urbancase is a tongue and cheek interpretation on the role booze plays during these hard times that isn’t exactly priced for a recession. [...]
Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix
Just Add Vodka
The next time your home brunch plans involve booze, we recommend picking up a bottle of Zing Zang Bloody Mary Mix ($8). This lightly chunky mix has all the flavor notes you’d expect from a great bloody mary including notes of Worcestershire sauce (Lea & Perrins), pepper, Tabasco, and hangover curing, sinus searing horseradish. Trust [...]
El Jimador New Mix Tequila Cocktails
A Long Way from Salting Your Hand
The industrial-booze complex otherwise known as the world’s liquor industry will forever be in a bit of a bind. The trouble is there’s only so many types of alcohol that exist on this earth, and no amount of aging, packaging, or flavor infusions, can change that fact. Still, the Casa Herradura Tequila brand isn’t calling [...]
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MetroKane VIP 7 Piece Bar Tool Set
Hardware for Hard Alcohol
Just because you want to prep the best possible cocktails at home doesn’t mean you have to mortgage the house for bar tools. Made of 18/8 stainless-steel in gleaming finish with handles wrapped in faux leather (for the look without the worry of water damage), the Metrokane VIP 7 piece bar tool set is both [...]
Gourmet Magazine | Favorite Cocktails: 1941-2009
We Raise A Parting Drink
If you haven’t heard already, this week Condé Nast announced it would be shutting down several of its long standing magazine publications including one of this author’s admitted favorites, Gourmet Magazine. Though it saddens us to hear about such a venerable publication victim to financial pressures (we recognize digital publications like Gear Patrol have attributed [...]
Herradura Calabatini
We Doubt Pagans Drank This Well As a precusor to your costume party debauchery, give the Herradura Calabatini a shot. This festive blend of tequila and pumpkin spice is sure to get nods of approval from guests. Not to mention yourself. Plus it’s a lot more dignified than orange jello shots, though depending on how [...]
InsideOut Collection Liqueur Glass Set by AMT
Guaranteed Topic Of Discussion For Your Fellow Imbibers Even though our Man Poll showed beer is your beverage of choice, perhaps you should consider taking a break from your gridiron standby. Instead serve libations with class in these hand blown stunners. As a stylish twist on traditional drinking ware, the negative space of each glass [...]
Crate & Barrel Bar Tool Set
Women Need Cutlery. Men Need Bar Tools. What’s better than reaching into your bar and pulling out a polished stainless steel pair of tongs, reaching into a heavy ice bucket, picking out a few select rocks, dropping them into your tumbler and pouring your drink of choice – listening to the ice give way to [...]
