Major Key

A new cocktail tool to keep in your pocket

Forget those bottle openers that you used to hang from your key ring in college. Microplane, maker of the eponymous supersharp graters, zesters and shavers, has released a new,...

Fizz This

A better way to dry-shake

The key to a good egg-based drink, i.e., proper emulsification, can be hard to achieve. It is sometimes accomplished with a technique called the dry shake, in which the cocktail...

Buddy System

Is Bud Light Lime the new bartender's handshake?

Craft cocktails and mass-produced, flavored beer are on different planets of the drinking galaxy. Except when it comes to Bud Light Lime, which is currently an obsession of the...

'Vit Girl

Aquavit comes into its own

Whiskeys from Ireland and Scotland have millions of fans worldwide, and you don't need to be on a Caribbean island to enjoy a glass of rum. Aquavit, a Scandinavian spirit, has...

Choc a Bloc

Cacao jumps into the bottle

No more need to raid your kids' Easter basket for a chocolate fix. Brooklyn-based chocolatier and distiller Daniel Prieto is bringing the mature complexity of cacao to those of...

Fully Booked

Blogs with a cocktail plan

It's difficult to love cocktail culture without veering into academic territory (read: geek town). Like wine, cocktails can lead down a rabbit hole of history, politics and...