Dolores Park Swizzle

In these caronavirus times, with bars throughout San Francisco closed, I’ve found myself increasingly willing to make more complicated cocktails. The Dolores Park Swizzle is one such drink. Hailing from the Death and Co. Cocktail Book, the drink contains X …

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 …

Haribo Old Fashioned

One day, while talking to my Jiu Jitsu coach (Kurt Osiander) about one of our shared favorite past-times: alcohol, he mentioned he liked dissolving gummy bears in bourbon and then drinking it. I was amused – but it …