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Celebrate Negroni Week with This Classic Negroni Cocktail Recipe
Florence, Italy, 1919. Count Camillo Negroni is sitting at the bar of the Caffe Casoni on a hot day, cooling off with his favorite aperitivo, […]
8 Black Owned Distilleries Producing Some of America’s Finest Whiskeys
Black owned distilleries are few and far in between. Similar to the craft beer industry, there is a big gap between the whiskey industry and […]
Uncle Nearest 1856: How a Slave Helped Launch America’s Most Famous Distillery
For 160 years, whiskey had a secret history. The story behind America’s Jack Daniel’s Distillery wasn’t entirely factual. Today, in celebration of Juneteenth, I’m sipping […]
Cardinal Spirits // Songbird Coffee Liqueur
Cardinal Spirits, a craft distillery in Bloomington, Indiana, has collaborated with Chicago’s Metric Coffee on an Illinois-only edition of their popular Songbird Coffee Liqueur. Songbird Coffee […]
Pipeworks Brewing Company // Brown and Stirred
Beejay Oslon and Garritt Lewis, founders of Pipework’s Brewing Co, met while working at West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago. There were both homebrewers who received […]
The Boulevardier Cocktail
From 1927-1932, Erskine Gwynne was living in Paris, running a monthly magazine he founded called Boulevardier—a sort of Parisian version of New Yorker. Gwynne was an […]
The Fitzgerald Cocktail
I’m introducing a new feature, today: the Friday Happy Hour. Every Friday (or maybe most Fridays) (or maybe even just some Fridays), I’ll post a small […]