Latest Post
Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
Since beginning this quest to visit the world’s best cocktail bars in late 2014, there’s one bar that stands above all else. It’s come up dozens of times, and I’m not sure there’s a bartender or cocktail bar owner that doesn’t owe their success in one way or another to this bar. Unfortunately, I’ve never…
Continue Reading Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
Home Bar
Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
Since beginning this quest to visit the world’s best cocktail bars in late 2014, there’s one bar that stands above all else. It’s come up dozens of times,…
Continue Reading Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
10 Essential Cocktail Tools: The Tools Every Home Bar Needs
As my obsession with cocktails has grown over the last couple years, I’ve had more and more friends and family members picking up the hobby as well. It…
Continue Reading 10 Essential Cocktail Tools: The Tools Every Home Bar Needs
How to Make Clear Ice Cubes for Cocktails: Everything You Need to Know
It’s Friday night and you’ve invited the guys over for a round of your special recipe Old Fashioneds. Let’s see… Woodford Reserve Batch Proof bourbon. Check. Angostura traditional…
Continue Reading How to Make Clear Ice Cubes for Cocktails: Everything You Need to Know
Cocktail Recipes
Avocado Margarita Recipe: Quite Possibly the Best Margarita Ever
So the other day I was sitting in my kitchen looking at the produce we had sitting in our fruit basket, and was trying to come up with…
Continue Reading Avocado Margarita Recipe: Quite Possibly the Best Margarita Ever
Whiskey Sour Recipe: The Whiskey Cocktail for Beginners
To be honest, up until recently I really haven’t had very many whiskey sours. To me a whiskey sour was the drink you’d get at a nightclub if…
Continue Reading Whiskey Sour Recipe: The Whiskey Cocktail for Beginners
Peach Old Fashioned: A Fruity Twist on an Old Classic
The old fashioned as long been my favorite craft cocktail. It’s delicious, puts the whisky on the forefront of the drink, and is about as simple as it…
Continue Reading Peach Old Fashioned: A Fruity Twist on an Old Classic
The Dockside: A Killer Rum Old Fashioned Cocktail
I don’t know the precise moment when it happened, but it definitely happened: I became a rum guy. These days rum gets a lot of love in cocktail…
Continue Reading The Dockside: A Killer Rum Old Fashioned Cocktail
The Last Word Cocktail Recipe: An Often Overlooked Crowdpleaser
I make a lot of drinks for friends, but oddly enough the drink I make the most? It’s not an old fashioned, ok, actually it’s probably a daiquiri……
Continue Reading The Last Word Cocktail Recipe: An Often Overlooked Crowdpleaser
Two Dozen Tests Confirmed This is The Best Manhattan Cocktail Recipe
A lot of classic cocktails are pretty straight forward. A daiquiri for instance? Is a daiquiri. There are a million variations, but for a straight up, classic daiquiri…
Continue Reading Two Dozen Tests Confirmed This is The Best Manhattan Cocktail Recipe
Bar Reviews
Tales and Spirits Review: Why It’s the Best Bar in Amsterdam
It had been over ten years since I’d visited Amsterdam – and let’s just say my two trips couldn’t have been more different. My first Amsterdam experience was…
Continue Reading Tales and Spirits Review: Why It’s the Best Bar in Amsterdam
Deadshot PDX: The Most Unique Cocktails in Portland
Despite traveling all over the world to taste and write about cocktails, up until now I haven’t written much about the cocktail scene in my hometown: Portland, Oregon.…
Continue Reading Deadshot PDX: The Most Unique Cocktails in Portland
Cafe Dante NYC: Is it REALLY the World’s Best Bar?
Cafe Dante in NYC has been around for 104 years. It’s been on my radar for about 4. But after over a century of serving drinks to locals…
Continue Reading Cafe Dante NYC: Is it REALLY the World’s Best Bar?
69 Colbrooke Row Review: A Classic that Lost Its Luster
On our last trip to London I was excited to visit The Bar With No Name, which is located at 69 Colbrooke Row. As one of the longer…
Continue Reading 69 Colbrooke Row Review: A Classic that Lost Its Luster
SG Club Tokyo: A Cocktail Bar With Something for Everyone
Every once in awhile you hear about a new place opening up that you know you have to visit. The SG Club in Tokyo was one of those for me.…
Continue Reading SG Club Tokyo: A Cocktail Bar With Something for Everyone
Danico Review: Why It’s My Favorite Cocktail Bar in Paris
We recently went to a dozen of the best bars in Paris. Le Syndicat, Little Red Door, Candelaria – we went to them all. But my favorite drinks?…
Continue Reading Danico Review: Why It’s My Favorite Cocktail Bar in Paris
Most Recent Posts
Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
Since beginning this quest to visit the world’s best cocktail bars in late 2014, there’s one bar that stands above all else. It’s come up dozens of times, and I’m not sure there’s a bartender or cocktail bar owner that doesn’t owe their success in one way or another to this bar. Unfortunately, I’ve never…
Continue Reading Regarding Cocktails: A Cocktail Book Where Simplicity Shines
10 Essential Cocktail Tools: The Tools Every Home Bar Needs
As my obsession with cocktails has grown over the last couple years, I’ve had more and more friends and family members picking up the hobby as well. It seems as if it’s almost on a daily basis someone is texting me to ask about a recipe, or ask some other home bar related question. But…
Continue Reading 10 Essential Cocktail Tools: The Tools Every Home Bar Needs
How to Make Clear Ice Cubes for Cocktails: Everything You Need to Know
It’s Friday night and you’ve invited the guys over for a round of your special recipe Old Fashioneds. Let’s see… Woodford Reserve Batch Proof bourbon. Check. Angostura traditional and orange bitters. Yep. Your homemade Demerara syrup. Got it. And… You hold your Waterford crystal double old fashioned glass against the lever labeled “Ice” on the…
Continue Reading How to Make Clear Ice Cubes for Cocktails: Everything You Need to Know
Avocado Margarita Recipe: Quite Possibly the Best Margarita Ever
So the other day I was sitting in my kitchen looking at the produce we had sitting in our fruit basket, and was trying to come up with a cocktail to make. I took one look at the avocado that was sitting there, and was reminded of one of the first “must have” drinks I…
Continue Reading Avocado Margarita Recipe: Quite Possibly the Best Margarita Ever
Whiskey Sour Recipe: The Whiskey Cocktail for Beginners
To be honest, up until recently I really haven’t had very many whiskey sours. To me a whiskey sour was the drink you’d get at a nightclub if you wanted to feel slightly less dirty than you really were. Rum and coke? Ha, please. “I’lllll have a whiskey sour.” And then they’d pour crappy well whiskey into…
Continue Reading Whiskey Sour Recipe: The Whiskey Cocktail for Beginners
Peach Old Fashioned: A Fruity Twist on an Old Classic
The old fashioned as long been my favorite craft cocktail. It’s delicious, puts the whisky on the forefront of the drink, and is about as simple as it gets when it comes to a classic cocktail. And as a home bartender, one of my favorite things about the old fashioned is just how versatile it…
Continue Reading Peach Old Fashioned: A Fruity Twist on an Old Classic
The Dockside: A Killer Rum Old Fashioned Cocktail
I don’t know the precise moment when it happened, but it definitely happened: I became a rum guy. These days rum gets a lot of love in cocktail circles, but I feel like for the average person (or at least the ones I’m around), rum as yet to get the attention it deserves. So many…
Continue Reading The Dockside: A Killer Rum Old Fashioned Cocktail
The Last Word Cocktail Recipe: An Often Overlooked Crowdpleaser
I make a lot of drinks for friends, but oddly enough the drink I make the most? It’s not an old fashioned, ok, actually it’s probably a daiquiri… But the drink I make the second most isn’t one of the more famous classic cocktails, but rather it’s a lesser known prohibition era drink known as The Last…
Continue Reading The Last Word Cocktail Recipe: An Often Overlooked Crowdpleaser
Two Dozen Tests Confirmed This is The Best Manhattan Cocktail Recipe
A lot of classic cocktails are pretty straight forward. A daiquiri for instance? Is a daiquiri. There are a million variations, but for a straight up, classic daiquiri it’s a simple combination of white rum, lime, and sugar. A negroni? Gin, Campari, Sweet vermouth. Easy. I always thought that was the case with a Manhattan…
Continue Reading Two Dozen Tests Confirmed This is The Best Manhattan Cocktail Recipe
Aviation Cocktail Recipe: A Beautiful and Refreshing Gin Cocktail
I still vividly remember the first Aviation Cocktail I ever had. It was a few months after I left my finance job and I’d moved to Bangkok, Thailand where I was working on building my first business. I was broke and living in a $200 a month apartment, and any cocktails I was having were…
Continue Reading Aviation Cocktail Recipe: A Beautiful and Refreshing Gin Cocktail