The old fashioned has 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 […]
Archives for April 2020
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]