Once used for medicinal purposes, today's flavor-packed cocktail bitters are spice-laden, herbal extracts that can transform a drink with a mere drop or two. As the name suggests, the alcoholic ...

Sipsmith is a small-batch made London Dry gin made in England. Ketel One is a vodka made in the Netherlands. St-Germain is ...

The classic Old Fashioned is typically made with bourbon, cane sugar, and Angostura bitters, with an orange peel and a brandied cherry as popular garnishes. For a trick to improve your Old Fashioned ...

Cocktail Queries is a Paste series that examines and answers basic, common questions that drinkers may have about mixed drinks, cocktails and spirits. Check out every entry in the series to date.

It is theorized that humans are the only species that embraces bitterness. A sensation that once indicated poison, or danger, bitter now is embraced as one the five tastes that create complexity and ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While many people think of, say, gin or whiskey when they think of cocktails, several of these drinks just wouldn't be the same if it weren't ...

I’m a sensory sort of guy. I can read about tasting notes and flavor descriptors, but at the end of the day what I really want to do is taste for myself, and take my own notes. So too am I a big ...

This article appears in print in the April 2018 issue. Click here to subscribe. It’s astonishing how the world of cocktails has changed in the past decade. According to Seattle’s Miles “Scrappy” ...