Stories about drinks – where they come from, why they work, and how to make them
I’ve loved ginger beer since I accidentally drank one at a family vacation when I was 15 thinking it was a real beer (what a rebel…). That was some too-sweet, mass-produced version in a can, but I was all-in. It took about another decade until I had my first homemade ginger beer at the now-closed … Read more
We went camping with some friends this weekend without much planning, but one thing I definitely did have time to plan out was a batch cocktail to take. We were only gone for one night, so I didn’t feel the need to be constrained to my usual flask cocktail criteria and went with something a … Read more
After messing around with the Cosmo last week, I was looking for a good riff on that drink. Essentially, this means incorporating citrus and cranberry. It helps that cranberry will almost certainly make the drink pink, which felt right for Valentines Day. This is an original cocktail that, while certainly informed by reading a whole … Read more
Once I decided I was going to be writing a lot about triple sec this winter, I knew I was going to write about the Cosmopolitan. I expected it to be a takedown of the cocktail culture of the 90s because the drink sucks but got popular anyway because of a TV show. Unfortunately for … Read more
Diwali was on Wednesday, and my wife and I went to a party with friends to celebrate. I don’t think I’d ever even heard of Diwali before college, and Indian food isn’t really my wheelhouse (I make pasta…), but I wanted to bring something. I found a drink that I thought had the right flavors … Read more