Drinks
Why Tonic is the Secret Ingredient Your Iced Coffee Needs
This summer, the Kaffe Tonic, a mixture of espresso and Fever Tree tonic served over ice at Saint Frank Coffee in San Francisco rightfully caught on.
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DrinksCream of the Crop: The Best American Fruit Beers
Fruit beers have long been the redheaded stepchildren of the beer world. But now American brewers are using more complex bases — stouts, brown ales, rye ales and barleywines among others — and taking cues from the Belgians, those oldest of fruit beer brewers, to harness the nation’s harvest, from pumpkins to pluots.
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DrinksThe Best American Wheat Beers
If you associate wheat beer with Blue Moon and a slice of orange, this is your primer to the world of American brewers doing something more with their wheat malt. They’re adding aromatic hops.
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DrinksHighland Park’s Dark Offering Takes Aim at New Fans
We review Highland Park’s latest edition to their core lineup of single malts, Dark Origins, which is defined by a high percentage of double first fill sherry casks and a peatiness yet unheard of from the brand.
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DrinksFor Happy Hour in the Backcountry, Just Add Water
Leave it to an Alaskan to invent a new way to drink alcohol outdoors.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Taylor Fladgate 1964 Single Harvest
Taylor Fladgate, one of the council of elders in the Port world, released a 50-year-old tawny port in 2014.
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DrinksMore Mature With Age
I come from a family of beer drinkers, firmly rooted in the blue-collar heritage of my grandfather’s construction and carpentry business. My father likes to say that it was his own skill at unskilled labor that paid his way through college.
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DrinksBarnyard Brews: The Best Saison Beers
Originally brewed in Wallonia, the French-speaking region of Belgium, as a summer treat for farmers who spent hours under the hot sun, saisons often taste spicy, earthy and yeasty, and contain ABV levels that typically run between 4% and 8.5%. Other than a glass of ice water, they’re about as refreshing a drink as you can get on a hot summer day.
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DrinksHow to Drink Absinthe Like a Gentleman
Will Elliott of NYC’s Maison Premiere shows us the steps to making three types of absinthe drinks: a drip, a frappe and a Sazerac, with a twist.
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DrinksWhite Wine? Just Can It
We got our hands on five canned white wines to find out if they’re a clever packaging solution or just an excuse to drink more white wine.
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DrinksDieu du Ciel and the Science of Good Beer
A little over two decades ago, Stephane Ostiguy and Jean-Francois Gravel met while studying science at McGill University.
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DrinksAmerican Absinthe: A Misunderstood Spirit Arrives Stateside
After years of global vilification and false stigma, absinthe is making a comeback.
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DrinksTasting the First Beer Aged in Jameson Barrels
Among the fastest growing trends named by brewers at the American Craft Beer Festival was barrel aging, so it’s no surprise that the world’s largest Irish whiskey producer, Jameson, is constantly approached by craft brewers looking for used barrels. Despite this, not once in Jameson’s 234 years of distilling whiskey had the company loaned their barrels to a U.S.
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DrinksA Learned Man’s Guide to Rose
Rosé season is upon us, and while we generally advocate for consumption of pink wine year round, the same warm weather that begs for draping oneself in white linen and opening too many shirt buttons demands the freshness of a crisp, vibrant rosé.
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DrinksTasting the World’s Oldest Tequila: Lote Fuenteseca
For the past 18 years, agave-mogul Enrique Fonseca Cerda has been aging the world’s oldest tequila. We headed down to the NoMad, Manhattan, for a taste.
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DrinksTested: Northern Brewer One Gallon Homebrew Kit
If you haven’t yet joined the home brew revolution, you’re missing out on a lot of fun.
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DrinksThe Five Best Beer Growlers
When you get down to it, a small investment in a beer jug opens up a whole world of local microbrews.