This is one of the videos I did for Stoli in their “Drink What You Want” series, where we explored this notion that bartenders judge you negatively for drinking vodka (spoiler alert: we aren’t). What follows is a litany of things we might, however, be judging you for.
June 24, 2016
It should go without saying that we all prefer fresh ingredients in our cocktails these days. It’s 2016 and absolutely nobody is going to come out and declare that they prefer artificially flavored sour mix to fresh lemon or lime juice. But let’s face it, sometimes it can be tricky to stick to only fresh | Read More
My friends at Saveur Magazine and I got together at my house way too late one night and shot this fun little video on how to incorporate orange marmalade into a classic Whiskey Sour, which is one of my favorite little tricks of all time.
Reading David Wondrich’s Punch really opened my eyes to the wonders of oleo saccharum. It happened to most of us, I think! Anyway, as I detailed in this post, it’s so much easier with a vacuum sealer. So in this little video collaboration between The Bar Book and Tanqueray, I show you how it works, | Read More
June 22, 2016
If you don’t tend bar for a living, or haven’t at some point in your past, you probably don’t understand the quick thinking that we have to do every single second. So, in order to demonstrate what sort of complicated math we do regularly to those who don’t tend bar, and to act as a | Read More
He’s such a fixture in bars these days: the Whiskey Alpha. He wants to tell you all about how you’re ordering drinks (and drinking them) the wrong way. But I’m here to tell you that he’s full of shit. Thank you to Stoli for giving me the platform to help shut this guy down.
In this fun video I did as a collaboration between The Bar Book and Tanqueray, I show you how to make your own orange bitters at home, and then make a nice little Tanqueray Ten Martini with them. Such a fun series to shoot!
June 16, 2016
For years I’ve been sharing the gospel of cocktail technique. On my blog, in my book, here in this column, and during talks around the country and around the world. Cocktail technique is so often based in rules, particularly rules of science (or, more accurately, kitchen science) that you would think that I’m a hard | Read More
Guys: stop being so uncomfortable in your own skin when you’re ordering a drink that you make everyone else around you suffer as well. You can order a glass of rosé, it’s fine. But please don’t call it bro-sé.
June 14, 2016
Man, there are few things out there more polarizing to people than creamy drinks. And it’s funny, you know, because I think it’s a pretty universal thing that our mouths just water at the sight of a creamy cocktail. Look at a properly made Ramos Gin Fizz. Or a White Russian. Or Egg Nog. How | Read More
June 3, 2016
I always feel like Memorial Day really marks the beginning of summer for us here in the States. Sure, it’s technically a month or so before the actual first day of summer, but by this point in the year, most of us have already checked out mentally and are ready to try to get into | Read More
June 3, 2016
“I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad. This drink’s my own invention. I’m going to patent it when I can think of a good | Read More
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