You have the spirits. You have the mixers. You’ve bought the shaker, jigger and all those lovely glasses. Now you actually have to make the cocktail. Thankfully, you don’t need to train as a professional bartender to make great drinks at home. Most cocktails rely on a surprisingly small number of techniques and, once you
Home Bar Essentials
How to Choose the Best Home Bar Mixers & Ingredients: Tonics, Juices, Syrups & More
You’ve bought the spirits and your shaker is ready, but now you need all the other stuff. Mixers and ingredients may play supporting roles to the bottles on your bar, but they can completely change a cocktail. Flat tonic will ruin a perfectly good G&T, bottled lime juice has no business anywhere near a Daiquiri,
There’s a particular kind of light that arrives in Fall and it changes what you want in a glass. The bright citrus and clean spirits of summer start to feel like they belong to someone else’s season. What you want now is depth: bitters and brown spirits, a little smoke, something that tastes like it’s
Move over Aperol Spritz, there’s another spritz in town. The Hugo Spritz combines Prosecco, elderflower, soda and fresh mint for a light, floral cocktail that has become one of Europe’s favorite aperitivo drinks. Even better, it takes about five minutes to make and is built straight in the glass. I am always going to have
If you’re looking for an easy whiskey cocktail, the Tennessee Cooler might be one of the simplest places to start. Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey, apple juice and ginger ale come together in a tall, refreshing cocktail that takes about five minutes to make. The apple brings out the sweeter side of the whiskey, while ginger
Ask for a Ranch Water in a bar in Marfa or Fort Worth and nobody blinks. Ask for one in London five years ago and you’d have gotten a blank stare. That’s changed fast, and it’s easy to see why: this is tequila, lime and fizz, and nothing else is getting in the way. Nobody
Ask for a Ranch Water in a bar in Marfa or Fort Worth and nobody blinks. Ask for one in London five years ago and you’d have gotten a blank stare. That’s changed fast, and it’s easy to see why: this is tequila, lime and fizz, and nothing else is getting in the way. Nobody
The Blackberry Gin Fizz is the perfect drink for late summer when blackberries are in season! moment Something bright, cold, and barely sweet instead of another warm-weather sugar bomb. Blackberries and lemon do the heavy lifting, gin and soda do the rest, and the whole thing comes together in under five minutes. This Blackberry Gin
Make your summer cocktail with Jägermeister this time! Grapefruit goes so well with the woodsy notes of Jägermeister, so try it for a change! We actually have the Germans to thank for the spritz, aka spritzen (to spray)! In the 19th C, the Austro-Hungarian troops arrived in the Veneto and immediately began ordering Italian wine,
The cherry bomb shot is built for one thing: getting a party started fast. Drop a shot of cherry vodka and grenadine into a glass of Red Bull, and you have a sweet, sharp, caffeinated hit in under two minutes. No shaker, no strainer, no fuss. It is the kind of drink that shows up