Category: Cocktail Technique

Let’s Talk Sugar and Demerara Syrup

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

cocktail fire garnish tiki

Stop Setting Your Rum on Fire! Tiki Fire Explained

Rum and fire. They go together like peanut butter and…

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

What follows is the original Minimalist Tiki article that inspired…

Expanding the Tiki Lexicon – Coffee flavor in Falernum?

One day as Jason Alexander and I were doing our…

A bartender’s notebook for the 21st century

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

To shake or stir, that is the question

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

Cocktail Componentry – How a drink is built

In cooking, we all know that different ingredients play different…