Drinks
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DrinksTasting Notes: Greenhook Ginsmiths Beach Plum Gin Liqueur
There’s nothing like a bottle beach plum liqueur to conjure even totally made up memories of summering on the Atlantic coast. The only such spirit with a commercial release?
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DrinksTasting Notes: Union Wine Co.
If you produce videos like this one, our inclination is going to be to like you. We had hopes for their 2012 Underwood Pinot Noir ($12).
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DrinksTasting Notes: Pike Creek Whiskey
Pike Creek Whiskey was available stateside in the 90s. Slow sales soon put the importation experiment to an end, despite a budding cult following.
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DrinksWant This, Get This: 2009 Chateau Petrus or 2011 Leonetti Merlot
You know the pinnacle of wine-making remains in France. Well, so do all those newly minted Chinese millionaires, and they’ve driven the price of Old World red wines sky high.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Angel’s Envy Rye Whiskey
Angel’s Envy’s latest creation, a rye whiskey finished in Caribbean rum barrels, supposes to pair a contrasting set of spirit flavors.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Stella Artois Cidre
To begin: someone made a mistake in this assignment. I don’t like ciders.
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DrinksSuds Up: Perfect Summer Craft Beers
A true hot-weather brew is not necessarily easy to find. We won’t knock macrobrews — their simple refreshment is enhanced all the same by hot weather, scantily clad women and baseball games.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Dewar’s Highlander Honey
Putting honey into alcoholic things has a bad rap. It’s effeminate, it’s weak, it’s a cop-out.
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DrinksRum: Your Official Summer Drink
Most honest Americans of drinking age know bourbon as the national spirit. But there’s another drink for us to enjoy in the warm weather that, like bourbon, has a uniquely American story: rum.
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DrinksDistilling Tradition: A Visit to the Home of Jameson Irish Whiskey
There’s a published sociologist somewhere who said integration is the key to acceptance. Maybe we’re just paraphrasing Costner’s journal in Dances with Wolves.
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DrinksMalted Madness, Round Six: Sipping a Champion
It felt good to finish a successful 64-beer tournament. Partly because our bladders were feeling the pressure after lots of beer samples, but mostly because we got to crown a winner.
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DrinksTasting Notes: Qui Tequila
Last Cinco de Mayo you ended up in the gutter with an extra-large sombrero shading your bloodshot eyes. Ready to grow up a bit for this year’s celebration?
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DrinksMalted Madness: The Best Beer I’ve Ever Had
Malted Madness is a celebration of beer. Largely, we’ve glorified suds through our favorite medium: bloodthirsty head-to-head competition.
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DrinksMalted Madness, Round Four: Crowning the Category Champs
“You’re all winners in my book”. Overused by little league coaches everywhere, it’s a turn of phrase that doesn’t even trick children.
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DrinksIn Defense of the Everyman Beer
Editor’s Note: Malted Madness is a celebration of America’s craft beer. But what about the rest?
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DrinksMethod to the Madness: How a 64-Beer Tournament Comes to Be
You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to put on a 64 beer, single elimination, NCAA-style tournament. One minute you’re dreaming of all that hoppy, malty, chocolatey, fruity goodness in one place and the next… well, you’re trying desperately to get all that hoppy, malty chocolately, fruity goodness — in one place. To be clear, this tournament isn’t about bitching.
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DrinksDogfish Head Sixty-One
What’s big and floral and more hopped up than a GP editor after the Fortnight of Coffee? The continuously-hopped 60 Minute IPA from Dogfish Head, of course.
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DrinksAn Illustrated Guide to 11 Espresso Drinks
Our friends at La Colombe Torrefaction were kind enough to meet us one morning to make the battery of espresso beverages.
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Drinks5 Best Automatic Coffee Machines
Enlightened java drinkers disdain the typical automatic coffee machine on the shelves of your local big box retailer for one simple reason: it lacks control. It turns out that getting the best possible results from those beans — yea, those ones, which some jittery seed worshiper pressed into your hand while swiping your Amex with the other — requires a lot of precision.