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High Five

Happy New Year! For our first cocktail of 2025 we decided to finally post the High Five, a drink by Alex Day of New York’s Death & Co fame. We

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

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

Brooklynite

We have been enjoying the medium format as well as the more recent video shorts by Zach Zoschke, and in one if his cocktail features the other day he was

Hawaiian Sunset

In our last post, we remarked on the fact that there aren’t very many Tiki cocktails that feature vodka as the base spirit. The Blue Hawaii is a popular exception,

Green Cross Swizzle

Green Chartreuse is absolutely one of the world’s pleasures. You can disagree, but if you are reading this and you haven’t had personal experience with this ingredient you just don’t

Neruda

Yesterday, we mixed a highball from the most recent July/August 2022 issue of Imbibe Magazine. Today, we wanted to try another, and to our delight, this one is non-alcoholic. Drinks

Hop Toad

We are going to sneak one more cocktail into 2021. This comes right out of the Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book from 1935, and that makes it a classic. Yet, with

Elixir Craft Spirits

If you enjoy cocktails enough to mix them at home, chances are you have at least some interest in the ingredients required to make them. Whether it inspires you to

Outcast of the Islands

We’ve written a lot about ice over the years covering everything from crushed ice, molded spheres, long shards, and we’ve even written about techniques to make ice that is perfectly