Courvoisier is arguably even more party ready than when Busta Rhymes sang its praises.
I'm still passionate about the artisanal craft of cocktails and think of them as my vocation. But there's only room for one source of sleep deprivation in my life, and now it's my daughter.
The main complaint about cocktails these days is that they're pretentious. This image is only perpetuated when they're served by a bunch of seemingly elitist bearded bartenders who obsess over antiquated drinks that cost the price of an entree.
When Brian Floyd decided to donate his tips from a shift of bartending at The Vanderbilt in Brooklyn, N.Y. to tsunami relief in early 2011, he had no idea what this selfless act would inspire.
Although the federal minimum wage for tipped positions is at just $2.13 per hour as of 2012, and there are many low-traffic bars where the addition of tips just barely brings a employees above minimum wage, there are also places where a bartender can make a decent living with good benefits.
Why do we tip taxi drivers 10% to 15%, waiters and waitresses 15% to 20%, and hotel chambermaids $1 per night, while bartenders expect to rake in $1 per drink (or more if we're feeling generous)?
I have every confidence in the The Avengers' ability to save the world. But working a brunch service? I'm not holding my breath.
This bartender might be a bit more Tom Cruise in the film "Cocktail" than he is master mixologist -- who knows -- but that doesn't take anything away ...
There's something great about enjoying a homemade cocktail when the weather is warm outside. And while some of us can make this happen with our well-e...
Rebecca Orchant from Honest Cooking tends the bar today, and decides to mix up a great summer cocktail for both lazy days in the sun and special occas...
Recipes that call for ingredients like "bacon-infused bourbon" and "housemade tangerine and serrano vodka" needn't send novice home bartenders runni...
I constantly find myself at a loss every time I want to indulge in a bottle of cold sake on a night out with friends -- that is until I discovered Rock Sake.
The barbacks today are largely immigrants, and you should pull up a stool and watch America at work. When you do so, you might just see the ghosts of some of your ancestors.
"WHEN we first started Varnish, we began sustaining a bunch of injuries," Marcos Tello said. "I had a huge, constant knot in my forearm. Chris Ojeda d...
s an avowed cocktail geek, one of the most exciting things about traveling in Japan is the opportunity to visit some of Tokyo's legendary cocktail lounges.
To suggest that making drinks using a jigger is the only way, and that it is more precise, is a completely false notion.
While I don't want to discredit anyone's interest in concocting creative cocktails (believe you me, I sure like drinking them), what is the difference between an inspired bartender and my grandfather?
If employment sectors on the shallower end of the income pool aren't fully supporting women, we still have plenty of room left for gender progress in the workplace from top to bottom.
Tad Carducci and Paul Tanguay are master mixologists who leave New York City on occasion to create ridiculously inventive cocktail menus for bars, restaurants and private events around the country.
Bourbon is the quintessential American whiskey and the drink of choice of many Southerners. If the recipe for mint juleps looks familiar, you would not be far wrong noticing its similarity to the Mojito.
It used to be that a good bartender was someone who listened, ran the bar, created the mood...and now, there are the dwindling few who actually know how to tend a bar.
"When I saw what they were doing, how refined it was, I knew there was no way I could guess anymore," he said. So he decided to begin controlled tasti...
