Author: Matt Pietrek

To shake or stir, that is the question

Nearly early modern mixed drink involves ice. You can make amazing drinks…

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Trip Report – Boozing in Beantown

My wife Carrie and I were recently in Boston for a good…

Cocktail Componentry – How a drink is built

In cooking, we all know that different ingredients play different roles. You’ve got your…

Reverse engineering a cocktail: The Cup Of Awesome

In this post I’m going to take a little break from posts…

My, isn’t that a pretty cocktail pattern!

In cooking and baking there are all sorts of pattern for food…

Distillation for Dummies

In a prior post I explained that all spirits start with some…

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A Basic Spirits Taxonomy

Walk into any halfway-decent bar and glance at the back wall –…

Episode 1 – In which the blogger becomes an opinionated drinker

The life of a cocktail wonk is full of first-world problems. Finding…