This isn't the last Old Fashioned recipe you'll learn. It's the first.

A good drink doesn't need a laundry list of hard-to-find ingredients.

A Hawthorne strainer designed to address every problem with existing strainers.

A collection of every cocktail you need to know -- and even those you don't.

Spritzes and pitchers for a sustained buzz.

With Instagram-worthy garnishes, to boot.

The quintessentially British Pimm's Cup gets a low-alcohol refresh.

Because the only time you should lift a finger is to pull the tab on a can.

Because nothing good comes from drinking overproof rum.

No bartending school required.

Master three classics.

A recipe from Joaquín Simó, the 2012 Tales of the Cocktail American Bartender of the Year.

The classic Manhattan is easy to make, and easier to mess up.

Looking like a James Beard Award-winning bartender just got easier.

The recipes that go along with our cocktail spread in Issue Two of the Gear Patrol Magazine.

The classic, time-tested martini — with a modern twist.

A rye-and-Scotch-layered cocktail, courtesy of Ramona bar in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

How to make a high-brow beer cocktail, in a bowl, for you and all your friends this Sunday.

Named for the second coffeehouse ever built in New York City, the NoMad's coffee cocktail is second to none.

You shouldn't look to alcohol to solve your problems. Unless that alcohol is a hot toddy. Then it's okay.

Root beer bitters and a frat house staple come together in an odd (and delicious) confluence of nostalgias.

Scotch & Soda? Nope. Martini? Pedestrian. The perfect date cocktail involves mezcal, grapefruit, and a touch of flair.

Three NYC mixologists give you every reason to clear out your liquor cabinet this summer.

At the Gosling's family factory in Bermuda, we learn the legend behind the Dark 'n Stormy cocktail and get the original recipe.

Sometimes out of the bottle with a beer is the best way to have a bourbon", admits Chef Newman Miller, owner of Harrison Smith House in Bardstown, Kentucky. But not always. The three bourbon cocktails he showed us are truly made to meet the expectations of the local Kentuckians.

A michelada makes a shandy embarrassed to be liquid. We caught up with our friends at The Third Man in New York for three variations on the drink: one original, one with rhubarb and bourbon, the last with tequila and grapefruit.

Oh, you were planning on taking a few shots? Celebrate the Fifth of May with these five tequila cocktails instead.