Lovers of the Keurig pod for their morning beverages may be excited about a new product more related to evening sipping. CNET reports today that Keurig and Anheuser-Busch InBev have partnered on a new cocktail-focused machine called the Drinkworks Home Bar. The machine will include a carbonation canister and have…

In this episode of The Takeout’s Cocktail Club, Abbie Rhoads of Chicago restaurant Parachute shows us how to make the classic Dark & Stormy cocktail.

Welcome back to Cocktail Club, The Takeout’s video series featuring our favorite bartenders teaching us their riff on their favorite drinks. This season, we’ve brought in Abbie Rhoads from Parachute, one of our favorite restaurants in Chicago (you may remember chef Beverly Kim from our Good Gravy! show and from Top…

When you’re just getting started building your bar cart, it’s intimidating to jump straight to a tome like Death & Co.’s cocktail book. If you’re at more of a 101 level, you can’t do much better than PUNCH’s new Mini Bar set, a collection of eight slim, sleekly designed recipe books organized by spirit. Each contains…

Dear Salty: At a nice cocktail bar recently, I asked the bartender to make me an off-menu drink with bourbon as the base. I ended up with a cocktail that was way too sweet for my taste. In this case, I just half-finished it and paid for it, but I’m wondering—could I have asked for something else because I wasn’t…

Before we begin, I wish to make one thing perfectly clear: You can drink an Old Fashioned in absolutely any season. A brisk autumn day is not a requirement; no crackling fireplace need be present to enjoy this classic. But while I’ve enjoyed my share of these beauties in spring and summer, there’s no denying that…

You’ve decided to throw a dinner party. It’s time to have people over, because you have something to celebrate, or because it’s been too long, or simply because you’ve been dying to cook a whole chicken and you just can’t justify doing that for no one but yourself. You want to make pretty cocktails and put out fancy…

Welcome to Old Folks Food Week, where we resurrect and celebrate the delicious dishes of yore.

Last week, two customers of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen restaurant in Las Vegas were transported to the hospital “for injuries involving a drink,” the Associated Press reports. No, they didn’t drunkenly stumble down some stairs; they were injured by the Rum Donkey, a rum-based cocktail that the Las…

Life never manages to be as simple we’d all hope. A kiss isn’t just a kiss; a job isn’t just a job; and a cocktail is never just booze in a fancy glass. In a culinary era when “craft” rules, cocktails have been elevated from mere potable to immersive culinary experience. You think specialty cocktails begin and end…

All-inclusive resorts are the worst thing to ever happen to frozen cocktails. I know this because as a young, sunburn-prone college senior, I stayed at such a resort during an all-girls spring break trip to Jamaica. No more a cliché vacation could have existed: Friends and I pounded layered “Bob Marley” shots,…

For some summer cocktail lovers, there’s no concoction like the Negroni: equal parts vermouth, gin, and Campari. It’s a little on the sweet side, but can be tempered with a slice of citrus, and its shimmering red-orange color, thanks to the Campari, is like no other.

Have you ever really watched your bartender shake your cocktail? There are many motions, as different as the bartenders themselves. But as this Punch piece—charmingly illustrated—how a cocktail is shaken also depends on its ingredients, type of ice, etc. Fascinating stuff for fellow cocktail dorks. [Kate Bernot]

Ah, summer. The time when you can chuck that red wine and dark beer in favor of fizzy drinks and cocktails crying out for an umbrella. But in the dog days of July and August, when the thermometer goes north of 90, we are going to have to check out this summery item at Costco.

Snoop Dogg paid homage to his favorite beverage 25 years ago with “Gin And Juice,” the second single off of his debut album, 1993’s Doggiestyle. A few days ago, he topped even that by breaking the world’s record for the largest gin and juice ever made: some 132 gallons.

Even if you consider yourself interested in cocktails, how deep is your home liquor selection, really? My bar cart has nice bottles of the stuff I like—gin, aged rum, fernet, a few types of whiskey, armagnac from a trip to France—and standards like vodka, white rum, and tequila to round those out.

We promise to always be straight with our readers, so here’s the truth: Restaurants and food companies come up with dumbass, stunt ideas all the time so the media will go “Whoooooaaaaa” and write 500 words about it.

The thought of drinking a glass of fat probably brings to mind the episode of Friends where Ross agrees to drink a hearty portion of an unspecified greasy substance in order to be forgiven by on-again, off-again, off-again girlfriend Rachel. The act as portrayed in the episode is quite disgusting. But in 2007, Don…

Imagine selling the Bloody Mary to a focus group today: “Say, you know what goes well with vodka? Tomato juice!”

In our season finale of A.V. Cocktail Club, Chicago bartender and Louisiana native Laura Kelton teaches us the proper techniques to make the quintessential New Orleans cocktail: the Sazerac.