“Wow, Balvenie really changed their branding,” is what I privately thought when I noticed the bright yellow and red circus themed Westland Peat Week bottle across the bar. I vaguely remembered that I had tried the Balvenie Peat Week at …
It rained the other day in San Francisco. Which is actually a notable event. One person on a local bourbon group I’m in posted a video of the flooding. Although I can’t find the exact video, the news clip below …
One of the major problems with having a homebar is that when you open a normal sized bottle of vermouth it quickly becomes a game of “how many vermouth-based drinks can I make before this goes rancid”?
To be fair, …
The Takeaway: The bartenders take the mainstage at this pharmacy-themed cocktail bar. Bottles of homemade tinctures and infusions line the walls, as the apron-donning bartenders zig-zag between a hybrid speed-pour/measuring approach and throw cocktails at long distances. We found the …
BenRiach, besides being a fun name to say, turns out some underrated excellent whiskies. They’re known mostly for their experimental approach to cask types. Most of their line-up has focused on unpeated offerings.
Our local Glendronach/BenRiach representative (Rory Glasgow) turned …
The Takeaway: Made for the ‘gram (how the young whippersnappers say “instagram”). Thumping music, glowing cocktail menu, and an enthusiastic set of young bartenders.
“Thank you!” yells an American while he enthusiastically pumps the hands of the bartenders across the …
One high risk maneuver is clicking around on liquor.com for cocktail recipes and making whatever you land upon. There are some gems on there and there are the… not so great ones.
But when I came across a cocktail named …
We originally bought Giffard’s banana liqueur solely for the purpose of making I Love Lamp, a cocktail featured in Imbibe. Since then, it has slowly been creeping into a lot of cocktails that we make.
I ran across the …
This is a continuation of the series of posts on whiskies we tried in Japan. Most of the places we visited were scotch focused with only small allocations of Japanese whisky but the cocktail bars, particularly the ones that are …