Look out there, just beyond the horizon. Can you see it? It’s the serene sight of an early-January oasis. Miraculously, the sinks contain no glasses, the partygoers’ last sled has fled, and the memories of another one for the ages are stacked nice and neat in the rearview, no worse for wear. Such a beautiful…
Tag: gin
Gin Ne Sais Quoi
There’s just a certain . . . something . . . about gin—a breathtaking bundle of botanicals that can sometimes be hard to expound upon . . . Okay, you got us. Since the dawn of S&S, we’ve waxed warmly about the spirit in a number of words that easily reaches the five digits. Even still,…
The Speakeasy Box
Fans of true crime, improv comedy, and long-form interviews unite! The podcast space has, in just 20 years, arrived at a place where every niche interest imaginable can now be explored with episode after episode of either exhaustively researched dissection or an extemporaneous shooting of the breeze. Not to be left out, there’s a great…
Ginspirations
New Year, new you, new . . . gin? It very well could be, considering the explosion of new and local options available to fans of the spirit. This wasn’t always the case. For seemingly forever, those seeking diversity in the category would’ve had to choose between the London dry, slightly sweeter Plymouth, and even…
Begin Again
Once upon a time, there was a spirit so popular that it captured the city of London in a craze. Flash forward to the Prohibition-era US, nearly two centuries later, and a decade’s worth of bathtubs were overflowing with the stuff to satiate revelers roaring for a sip. A pair of big moments in history…
Jolly for Gin Punch
This December, when the lighting’s just right and the decorations are perfectly in place, it’ll be time to swirl together, serve, and savor the most foundational and festive of drinking traditions: punch! Aside from its convenience, creativity is what makes this format of drinking shine, as long as balance is kept in mind. You can…
Negroni 2
Born in Florence from a request for a stiffened-up Americano, the classic Negroni’s recipe is, beautifully, not one you have to jot down. Stir up equal parts gin, Campari, and sweet vermouth, garnish with a twist, and you’ll be satisfied (like so many others of late). But it’s gotten so popular throughout this modern cocktail…
Ginuary
As purveyors of the season’s much-anticipated winter-wonderland-inspired cocktails, we know there are many bottles that’ll keep spirits high when temperatures dip so cruelly low. For these months, the richer, brown spirits tend to corner the market on comfort (a standard that proved true when we dabbled in spice and sipped our way through Canada). But…
Daijoubu
When Caer Maiko and Sharon Yeung entered Austin’s bartending scene and began to develop their styles, they noticed more and more that, representationally, the state of things was . . . just fine. The roles carved out for Asian immigrants and their fellow Asian Americans behind and in front of the bar were okay, and…
Keep Gin Wild
Though you won’t find it in any guidebook, here lies a route that skirts jagged coastlines, descends into canyons, and spans wide-open, forageable fields to showcase the wild environs where diverse New American (or Western) gins find their flavors. Along the way, out there amid the untamed, natural beauty of the US, there’s a growing…
Behind the Danger Juice
We sat down with Mia Mastroianni to chat about summer drinks, amaro, Negronis, and her cocktail for June’s Negroni Box, the Danger Juice! S&S: Your Danger Juice and the approach of summer has us dreaming of beach days. What are some of your favorite summer cocktails? MM: In the summer I tend to lean toward light…
Negroni
The Negroni is an exquisitely simple drink to make—traditionally with three ingredients in equal measure, a stir, and a twist. But as with most top-tier cocktails that have a century of history behind them, the boundaries of its potential have expanded over time as adventurous bartenders pushed the formula to its utmost limits with substitutions,…
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