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Drink Of The Week: Whiskey Sour
It might not sound like a very exciting drink this week, but chances are you have never had this drink properly prepared. A well-executed Whiskey Sour has the perfect balance of sweet and sour and...
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Cocktail Cherries
Click here for a newer post with a fantastic homemade cocktail cherries recipe! If you have visited your grocery store recently you may have noticed that fresh cherries are in season again. Seeing...
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Drink Of The Week: Suffering Bastard
As the summer fades, here's a wonderful cocktail to help you hang on to just a little more fun in the sun. It's usually regarded as a Tiki drink which always reminds me of warm tropical places—as it...
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Drink Of The Week: Port Light
We had some fun here at Summit Sips with the last post for Talk Like a Pirate Day. I hope you all gave that one a try, or at least gave talking like a pirate a try. Pirate grog, or Bumboo is pretty...
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STEP to the Dot to the HEN
STEP.HEN, keepin' it real, Yo. Imagine my delight to find out that my brother-in-law enjoys the exact same vodka martini that I do: Ketel One with a twist. It's so simple that when I thought about...
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Drink of the Week: Boulevardier
A few weeks ago, someone mentioned the Boulevardier cocktail in a comment. It's a drink that I first read about in Ted Haigh's Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails, and one I knew I would eventually...
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Nick Kosevich reflects on Town Talk Diner
As some of you may have heard, the Town Talk Diner is now closed for business. It's no secret that I considered Town Talk one of the best places to find good cocktails. So, when I heard the news, I...
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Cocktail Cherries
When fresh cherries are in season, it's time to make a delicious cocktail garnish. I have a strong opinion that you should take advantage of every opportunity to avoid using those glow-in-the-dark...
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Drink of the Week: Oriental
As far as I am aware, there's nothing truly oriental about the cocktail this week. It appears in the Savoy, not some asian bar manual. It is accompanied by a story that mentions the Philippines—do we...
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Drink of the Week: Red Hook
There's a reason we have so many delicious cocktails that are related the the Manhattan. Because of its simplicity, the Manhattan formula lends itself to a variety of substitutions that can transform...
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Drink of the Week: Pink Lady
The name may not inspire you, but this drink actually surprised me. If you dig around in old cocktail books for this recipe you find that they are all different. Flipping through the pages of the...
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Drink of the Week: Cherry Caiprissima
Muddling cherries and lime This drink of the week is pretty easy to pull off. It's a Caiprissima, which is like a Caipirinha only it uses rum instead of cachaça, and of course, this one also has...
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Garnish
Creative lime twist using aspic cutters Over the past couple of years we’ve discussed recipes, spirits, commercial and homemade ingredients, technique and even our favorite tools—but a subject we...
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Golden Dawn
As the cooler months of autumn begin to replace the summer's heat, we often think of cocktails made with apples and darker spirits. So often, the drinks we post here at Summit Sips are either...
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Drink of the Week: Amaretto Sour
We are sometimes asked: Where do you find content? What inspires you to write about one particular topic or another? How do you come up with recpies to post? While completely original ideas do come...
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Drink of the Week: Metropole
There's a certain level of comfort when it comes to the classics. There was no Tiki movement, no vodka, and folks knew what to expect from a cocktail. By today's standards, times were simpler then,...
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Beachbum
We've been enjoying Mai Tai cocktails with homemade orgeat syrup all summer long. As good as they are, sometimes you need a change of pace. Not wanting to stray too far, we settled on the Beachbum...
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Easy Brandied Cocktail Cherries
For anyone interested in craft cocktails, the cherry garnish will come up again and again, and it's important to find alternatives to the glowing red artificial flavored ones that are still very common...
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Republic of Jam Cocktail Club
This past weekend we were invited to participate in the quarterly Cocktail Club at Republic of Jam. Being asked to contribute recipe ideas was an honor, and it was even more exciting to be there to...
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