Drinks
American Absinthe: A Misunderstood Spirit Arrives Stateside
After years of global vilification and false stigma, absinthe is making a comeback.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey
On a brisk Manhattan morning, we met with Ralph Erenzo of Hudson Whiskey for a taste test. He introduced us to Hudson Baby Bourbon Whiskey ($45), the first bourbon whiskey ever made in New York, and the first legal pot-distilled whiskey made in New York since prohibition.
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ArchiveThis Week in Gear: September 6, 2014
This Week in Gear: Land Rover’s Discovery SUV, Bose launches their “best headphones ever,” a layover in Mozambique, and more.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: February 26, 2014
Today in Gear, we find optimized beer glasses, workingman’s whiskey, long johns, high-tech goggles and much more.
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DrinksHighland Park 12 to 40 Year Old, We Try Them All
Learning about the process of whisky-making is one reason to take a distillery tour, but we all know that the real name of the game is the post-tour tasting. Any day spent sampling a range of whiskies is a special one in our books.
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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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ArchiveThis Week In Gear: August 2, 2014
This Week in Gear: Indian’s new motorcycle, Laphroaig Select, Denon’s Dolby Atmos speakers, Yeti’s new mountain bike and much more.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: September 5, 2014
Today in Gear: Sony’s QX30 camera lens for smartphones, Dyson’s smart vaccuum, Elijah Craig’s 23-year-old whiskey, and much more.
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DrinksTrue Norse: A Visit to Highland Park Distillery
Highland Park has officially been making whisky in Kirkwall since 1798. The distillery requires no introduction for rabid fans of single malt.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: March 4, 2014
Today in gear we examine Apple’s foray into your car, the perfect IPA glass, bars made out of Jerrycans and Logitech’s perfect home theater keyboard.
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DrinksMass-Market Beer Tournament: The Light Division
The battle of the lights: Bud, Corona, Natural, Busch, Coors, Keystone, Michelob, Miller.
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GroomingThe Nitty Gritty: 5 Best Face Scrubs For Men
One of the easiest ways to achieve clearer, cleaner, flake-free skin is to regularly rid your face of all the crap that builds up on and in it, but that’s no easy feat. The best way to defeat face gunk is to scrub it out.
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Archive72 Hours in Park City, Utah
Park City’s reputation as a winter resort is outsized: It was the home of skiing and snowboarding events during the 2002 Winter Olympics in nearby Salt Lake City; it remains the training grounds for the United States Ski Team; and it plays host to the Sundance Film Festival. We came for the latter, but we found an idyllic mountain town where the sun shines almost every day, an unironic trolley rambles along Main Street and beautiful women wear leggings and fur vests.
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DrinksKanpai! The Five Best 12 Year Old Japanese Whiskies
Last week hummus and yoga were “in”, and while they’re not out yet, there’s a new top dog in Popularville: Japanese Whisky. Notice the spelling — that’s whisky with a -y, like Scotch whisky, not whiskey with an -ey, the spelling used for U.S.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Angostura Rum
The House of Angostura makes the best-known bitters in the world. In fact, with all the press given to Angostura’s bitters, it’s easy to overlook their line of rums, which they’ve been making for over 100 years.
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DrinksDefining the Dive Bar
Dive bars face a tug-of-war: they’re either worshiped or ostracized. This must stop.
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DrinksSlow As Molasses: 5 Rums We’re Drinking Now
In the final throes of summer each year, before we dust off the leather boots, get out the lambswool sweaters and prepare to toss the first curse at Old Man Winter, we spend a little extra time with Old Man Rum. Pretty good company, this guy: a spirit distilled from sugarcane juice or molasses, with few other rules to govern its production and aging.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: August 13, 2013
Hochstadter’s Slow & Low Whiskey Ready-made cocktails are wariness-inducing, oftentimes saccharine malt beverages — the drinkers of which refer to them as “bevvies”. Slow & Low is not part of that drinker’s scourge.
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Today in GearToday in Gear: October 24, 2013
Fujifilm X-E2 An upgrade from Fujifilm’s XE-1, XE-2 features a high-powered 16.2MP X-Trans CMOS II sensor inside a reasonably affordable interchangeable-lens shooter. A split image focusing system, whip-fast autofocus, high speed 1080p video capability, wi-fi file transfer and a shiny new LCD screen round out the features.