Cocktail Quest

Cognac was once the workhorse spirit reached for more often than any other spirit. By the late 1800s with the phylloxera epidemic threatenin...

The Brooklyn was first mentioned in print in an obscure tome, J.A. Grohusko's Jack's Manual (1908). Though it was lost to history f...

The Japanese cocktail was one of the first cocktails ever made. One of a handful of cocktail recipes published in Jerry Thomas's seminal...

My first introduction to aquavit came a couple of years ago at House Spirits Distillery in Portland. And while it was their Aviation gin tha...

Cocktail history unofficially began when someone somewhere added bitters to his (or her, though unlikely) morning dram. But what exactly are...

In 2008, the Bitter Truth won the Spirit of the Year Award for their celery bitters, though in some ways you would never know it. While indi...

In order to have a successful showdown, the cocktail choice was crucial. It needed to really accept white whiskey and highlights its unique ...

What is it about a full jigger of absinthe that so intrigued Charles Baker? While tastes have changed since the late 1930s, especially those...

Sometimes the most interesting cocktails aren't the ones that you discover on your own. In fact, many of my favorite drinks have come fr...

Nostalgia and cocktails go hand in hand. I can't count the times I have witnessed it. Sitting next to a stranger, you watch as this fara...

The moment I first tasted a Sazerac something inside clicked and I knew nothing would ever be the same. Even though several years have passe...

Recently, Tracy and I were on vacation in NYC and we went to Death and Company. It was a night to remember, and one of the fabulous cocktail...

Continuing our poem to heavily bittered drinks, I could not pass up the chance to try the Trinidad Sour . To date it is the most heavily bi...

Sometimes when the rain is coming down and the temperatures outside can't find their way out of the fifties, only certain cocktails seem...