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Inside Ran Duan’s Creative Toolkit
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation’s Most Imaginative Bartender Competition presented by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Gin is an opportunity for bartenders to let their imagination and creativity shine. For more...
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Bring Back the Earthquake
An enthusiastic advocate for bartending’s lesser-appreciated spirits, Chantal Tseng goes out of her way to demystify the likes of aquavit, sherry and absinthe with every drink she mixes at the Reading...
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Desperately Seeking Daisy
When the temperature tips past 75 degrees, Margaritas and Daiquiris start settling into their summer homes on happy hour menus across the country. But following the same foolproof sour formula of...
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In Search of the Ultimate Spritz
It’s summer in America. That once meant Gin and Tonic time, or Margarita time or Mojito time. Now, whether you like it or not, it’s spritz time. Italy’s classic low-ABV, bitter, fizzy, iced drink took...
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What the Fez?
A primary prerogative of the modern tiki revival has always been the recreation of the past. Devotees of the genre have spent countless collective hours unearthing and deciphering cryptic recipes,...
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This Is What Relaxation Tastes Like
If you’ve stepped into a hotel lobby or spent time at a spa, you’ve no doubt been offered a refreshing glass of cucumber-infused water. It is, after all, the official flavor of relaxation. In the world...
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Orgeat Doesn’t Need Your Almonds
The almond syrup known as orgeat has long been a key player in classic cocktails, from Trader Vic’s Mai Tai to Jerry Thomas’s Japanese Cocktail, not to mention the ever-widening array of modern...
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Mastering the El Presidente With Julio Cabrera
Although it’s not the top-selling cocktail at his Miami bar, Cafe La Trova, Julio Cabrera insists that the El Presidente is the best cocktail—when it’s done right. Using a recipe he first learned in...
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The Aged Cocktail’s Barrel Zero
Most bar innovations, from forced carbonation to rotovaps, escape the attention of even the most devoted cocktail enthusiast. But there is one concept of the last decade that even the most clueless...
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Inside Carley Gaskin’s Creative Toolkit
Tales of the Cocktail Foundation’s Most Imaginative Bartender Competition presented by BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® Gin is an opportunity for bartenders to let their imagination and creativity shine. For more...
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The Secret to Tom Macy’s Old-Fashioned? It’s In the “Biz.”
“Clover Club is the only bar I’ve ever worked at—so it’s where I’ve learned everything,” explains Tom Macy. That means he’s an acolyte of the Julie Reiner school of cocktail making: classic, but with a...
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Turn It Tropical
Few flavor combinations signal the arrival of summer quite like that of rum and pineapple—just ask the Piña Colada. But there’s a shortcut to achieving that tropical burst of flavor, and its...
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The Highball Machine Has Been Hacked
At Honeybee’s, a newly opened saloon-themed bar in New York’s East Village, Japanese-style highball machines dispense American Rye-balls, a wholly American spin made with domestic rye. “It’s Japanese...
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The Boy Wizard of the Midwest
The cocktail menu at Colita reads like a flashback to high-school algebra. To the right of each cocktail is a series of numbers punctuated by decimal points and percentage signs that correspond to the...
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Bring Back the Edgewater Beach
While many American cities lay legitimate claims to famous cocktails, Chicago seems to have lost their receipts. Historic as they may be, no one really knows if the rum- and port-based Chicago Cocktail...
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You Will Instagram This: The Statement Globe Bar
I own a bar cart—an art deco number with a polished nickel frame. It’s where I stash my liqueurs and modifiers, and where, on the foxed mirror surface, I’ll sometimes whip up a Sazerac or...
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Tiki For Dummies
It may sound like an oxymoron, but there is such a thing as easy tiki. While the genre typically hinges on the appearance of extravagance, often flaunting upwards of 10 ingredients, multiple spirits...
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Fanny Chu Is the Queen of Crushable Cocktails
Each month, as part of an ongoing portrait of rising talent in the bartending community, PUNCH hosts a resident bartender who has demonstrated a strong sense of personal style. In this installment, New...
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The Drinks That Broke Bitters
The cocktail world—and cocktails themselves—turned upside down sometime around 2009. That’s roughly when a handful of pioneering mixologists threw out the bitters rule book. Instead of using aromatic...
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What We’re Into Right Now
Each month, we pull together a selection of drinking-related items that have, for one reason or another, grabbed the attention of PUNCH’s editors, who spend pretty much all day, every day surrounded by...
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