Douglas Cocktail
Peaty cocktail featuring Lagavulin 16 from L’Abbattoir
Cocktails
Funk-groni Negroni
High octane negroni with split base between Rumfire and El Dorado
Ajax Cocktail
Genever based cocktail from Romanian bartender Calin Ioniciu.
Laphroaig-groni
It’s Negroni week 2019 in San Francisco! A veritable Christmas for lovers of the best cocktail out there in which each bar features its own special variant (or multiple variants) of the cocktail. The problem is figuring out where to …
Prickly Tequila
Bright pink, Mexican inspired cocktail with Tequila and Prickly Pear Syrup.
Cocktails to Make with Cognac
What cocktails should you make with cognac? These are our top picks.
Blood & More Blood
One of the most famous scotch cocktails is the Blood and Sand. But to be quite honest, I’ve always found it saccharine and gross: orange juice and herring cherry liqueur are not my favorite ingredients. I’ve tried making boozy versions …
Aperol Spritzmenot
The recent New York Times article on the Aperol Spritz has driven a wedge through our household. One of us likes the drink, the other one is sensible. While the Spritz is not good (guess which one of us is …
Cognac French 75
This weekend we went to Boulibar, a new-ish restaurant in San Francisco’s Ferry Building. On the whole it was expensive and nothing special, but I enjoyed their take on a French 75, which substitutes Cognac for Gin and with the …
The Cognac Cocktail
Early cocktails in the 1800s were mostly based on a simple formula: a base spirit, a sweetener, a sour and bitters. The old fashioned (simply just an “old fashioned whiskey cocktail”) and its many cousins are riffs on this simple …