Author: Randy Hanson

Shakerato

About a year ago, YouTuber Anders Erickson posted a video in which he whipped up a Campari Shakerato—a single ingredient “cocktail” that is really more of a technique than an

Three Dots and a Dash

It’s Morse code for “victory”, or it was back in WWII. This is another historic tiki creation by Don the Beachcomber that’s not exactly easy to execute, but if you

The Last Spritz

We like to think of our previous post as a kind of stand-in for the Aperol Spritz, a cocktail recipe that we barely described over a decade past, and later

Guilty Pleasure

With several cocktails now competing for our summer attention, leave it to Zach Zoschke to throw another into the mix from his YouTube channel. Of course, Zach speaks our language

Frozen Cocktails

A refreshing remedy to the summer heat is the frozen cocktail. Ice-cold, thick, frothy and capable of giving you “brain freeze” can sound pretty good on a hot summer day.

Banana Sidecar

You don’t see that many cocktails that feature bananas, and the more we pay attention to people’s reactions when we mention it, we get the impression that not many people

Hucktini

It’s called the Hucktini, a name that might remind you of stories by Mark Twain but probably comes from cocktail naming “sensibilities” of the relatively recent past—before the modern craft

Twilight Tinkles

For almost a decade and a half, we’ve been extolling the virtues of great cocktails and how to make them. We’ve shared innovative ideas and revolutionary recipes. We’ve unlocked the

Sousol

There’s a restaurant in Portland, Oregon called Kann. It’s Haitian cuisine from James Beard Award winning chef Gregory Gourdet. It was already a popular place, but when it was announced

Kapu Kai

If you are like us, you horde your Lemon Hart 151 like it’s the last bottle on earth. Or maybe you stockpiled a few during the ups and downs of

Lani-Honi

Here’s the first in a pair of quick and easy Tiki recipes we whipped up for online happy hours recently. The Lani-Honi is just three ingredients with crushed ice and

Hale Pele

We kicked off 2023 with a plan to visit a dozen bars around Portland, Oregon over the course of the year. Everything was going along fine until mid-year when we