Category: cocktails
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Using Isolated Acids in Cocktails: A Report and Recipes
In my latest article for CooksScience.com, I wrote about bartenders using isolated acids like citric, malic, tartaric, and succinic to amplify flavors and acidity in cocktails.
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Summer Cooler Cocktails to Enjoy in 1967
An interesting selection of summer cocktails from a 1967 calendar.
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Popular Scotch Cocktails of 1967
A vintage calendar from 1967 reveals cocktails made with scotch from that era.
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Oxymel: The Other Vinegar Drink
Vinegar drinks: Shrubs, switchels, and oxymel. What’s the difference and how do you use them?
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Sherry, As Simply as I can Describe It
A concise-ish description of the sherry cocktails from a story I published in 2011.
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(Almost) All the Cocktails & Spirits Books Published in 2015, For Reading or Gifting
My annual list of most all of the cocktails and spirits books that have been released. This year we see tons of whiskey books again, and a whole segment of bar-specific cocktail books and a new category of narrative cocktail history.
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A Brief History of Popcorn in Cocktails
In my latest piece for Details.com I wrote about the history and current status of popcorn in drinks, be they fat-washed in or garnished with.