Category: Cocktail Technique

Let’s Talk Sugar and Demerara Syrup

Let’s talk sugar and syrups. Cocktail recipes often call for Demerara syrup,…

cocktail fire garnish tiki

Stop Setting Your Rum on Fire! Tiki Fire Explained

Rum and fire. They go together like peanut butter and chocolate, or…

Minimalist Tiki: What you truly need to make classic Tiki Cocktails

Editorial aside before we begin: Below is the original 2015 article that…

Expanding the Tiki Lexicon – Coffee flavor in Falernum?

One day as Jason Alexander and I were doing our usual Facebook…

A bartender’s notebook for the 21st century

A well-established maxim in mixology circles is that bartenders should keep a…

To shake or stir, that is the question

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

Cocktail Componentry – How a drink is built

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