I can’t imagine infusing a good bourbon with anything, and I wouldn’t be buying bad bourbon to experiment. If you are wanting to do spiced tails for the holidays, check out Sailor Jerry’s rum. Great flavor, 92...

in the summer that was great – this was just ok. And encountered another instance of receiving a year newer of the vintage listed. ? is there a difference? I’ll never know....

be sloppy. The signature drinks (like the gin gin mule) are well worth trying, as are some of the seasonal picks, but one of their best choices is the Jimmy Roosevelt, a vintage-recipe Champagne tail laced with Chartreuse. (If...

Seiryo Kijoshu, you might consider Gekkakow vintage sake. although i would have mixed feelings about putting such premium sakes into a tail!

Tawny, Aged 20 Years Tawny, 1991 Vintage Port, and Raspberry Passport. My favorite of the line-up was the 20 year old tawny, but I couldn’t justify the $41 for 375 ml. Then up the road to Quady Winery, where I caught up to...

, and that makes sense. But I’m not looking for any specialty brands or vintages. Rather, I’m looking for standard brands that I can easily find in low-price outlets. Speaking of low-price outlets – where is the...

in the revival of forgotten classics ranging in origin from the 19th-century Golden Age of tails to about the start of Prohibition. By definition, these entail the use of a wider variety of potable and non-potable bitters,...

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the rarest of rare and antique spirits you can imagine, including vintage rums from the 1940ies and a vast selection of exotic gin. if you go to shiro i shiro when filip is working and it’s not too crowded, you should have...

that I’ve had for many years and had forgotten how much I like it. Their boutique attempt with the “Birthday Bourbon” wasn’t worth it to me, though. And I’ll contribute to the Booker’s chorus....

, but still odd. I noticed the bartender referring to a laminated recipe guide as he was assembling the drink. He did pretty much fine until he strained the drink into a tail glass and added a lemon twist. An old fashioned is...

is partly a function of the amount and size of ice used. Most pros will tell you not to store your spirits in the freezer, as the water from icemelt is an absolutely essential ingredient in most tails. Some fascinating (and in some...

, and a bit weather-worn, but still have the spirit of an era that involved more hats and gloves than blue jeans and iPhones. They need not be expensive, just earnest. These places are a dying breed, and I’d like to check...

then turned it over to Peter(last name forgotten) the farmer. He talked about the farm and what they are trying to accomplish(“grow really f**king amazing fruit”). They are growing 100 varieties of apples, melons,...

to the tail so we went with that. We had no clue what most of the ingredients were but we knew which spirits we liked and disliked and luckily the menu was organized by spirit (rum, vodka, etc.). Every tail is $11. We tried the...