How To Drink Features
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How to Drink Żubrówka Vodka Like a Pole
Enjoy this Polish vodka flavored with bison grass in the tradition style: with apple juice and a fur coat.
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Let the Bartender Be Your Personal Guide to Booze
If you’re just asking the bartender to serve you a drink, you’re missing out. Let your bartender guide you to new flavor experiences.
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Scotland’s Isle of Islay: Whisky Wonderland
The Isle of Islay is best known for one thing: amazing Scotch. We journeyed to this tiny island to experience the whisky firsthand.
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Tips for Finding Your Scotch Soul Mate
Peaty? Fruity? Briny? Neat or rocks? Water or soda? Here’s what you need to know to order a great dram of Scotch.
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The Anatomy of a Tiki Bar
Tiki buffs tell us what to look for in the quintessential tiki bar
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Rum Vacation Guide: 5 Caribbean Distilleries to Visit
Don’t just sip rum cocktails at the hotel bar, visit some rum distilleries on your next Caribbean vacation
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3 Rum Books That Will Make You Thirsty
Have a hankering for rum? Here are 3 books to learn more, and cocktails to sip while you read.
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4 Things You Should Know About American Craft Whiskey
Experts talk about the reinvention of American whiskey by craft distillers
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The Right Cocktails for 10 Real-Life Situations
Drinks with co-workers or a night out with someone special…find the right cocktail for any situation.
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Bartenders’ Take on Skinny Cocktails
More bartenders are embracing the concept of skinny cocktails, using low-calorie sweeteners to cut the sugar.
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How to Drink and Enjoy Mezcal
The rich, smoky flavors of mezcal, a cousin to tequila, take some getting used to, but the effort is well worth it.
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Want a New Cocktail? Try Bartender’s Choice
Sometimes you want to try a new cocktail, but you don’t know which one to order. Put your drinking fate in your bartender’s hands with Bartender’s Choice.
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Pickle Back: Irish Whiskey is Back in Vogue
Pickle Back: one shot of Irish whiskey followed by one shot of pickle brine. Irish whiskey is the fastest growing spirit category in the United States, perhaps in part because of a friendship between pickle maker Bob McClure and the owner of Brooklyn’s Bushwick Country Club John Roberts — and a little lady who walked…
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Man’s Guide to Buying the Lady a Drink
How to chat her up, drink in hand.
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A Three-Step Plan for Ladies Looking for Barroom Love
Ladies, don’t wait for him to come talk to you.
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How to Become a Regular at a Cocktail Bar
Want the ‘Cheers’ experience? Here’s how to get it.
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Hooch Life Resolutions for 2012
A news article quote from the comic, Louis C.K., caught my eye yesterday. “I have a list of beliefs,” he said, “and I live by none of them.” And so it goes with New Year’s resolutions. Why? Because we make them hard. We approach them as stubbornly high-minded, self-inflicted psycho-arm-twisting, and that makes them, well,…
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Write Like Hemingway: By the Bottle
It’s time to get manly with Hemingway.
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New Year’s Eve Party Playlist
New Year’s Eve is the like the squeegee of life. It’s a way to wipe the slate clean, reminisce, look ahead, and perhaps most importantly tie one on with friends. There is something life-affirming about ending the year with a massive party, and for that, you need booze and good tunes. Well, we’ve taken care…
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Bartenders Guide to Going Out on New Year’s Eve
It’s all in how you celebrate
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3 Ways to Beat a Hangover
Fight back against your hangover
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Holiday Drinking, Don Draper-Style
Explore wintry classics this holiday season
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Why Trying New Cocktails Makes You a Better Person
No really, it does.
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How to Drink Like Don Draper
Or how the classic of all classic cocktails became cool again
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Set Your Taste Buds Free
Go ahead, try something new
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How To Order an Old Fashioned
Rye or bourbon? Fruit or no fruit? What’s a drinker to do?
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Libation-Inspired Literary Classics
Few great books would be complete without a little (or, in some cases, a lot) of drinking. Here are 5 great books that will inspire you to drink the good stuff. Famous drinkers, iconic authors — the two things are basically the same. And more often than not, literary characters follow in their creators’ footsteps….
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Bartender Perspectives: Right Drink, Right Time
It’s about ordering whatever the hell you want
