Spring Drinks

  • May Is National BBQ Month!

    Whether it’s the brighter, sun-filled days that are finally beginning to last a little longer or the cool, three-day Memorial weekend, the month of May brings a lot of reasons to celebrate! While the notion of juicy, mouth-watering barbeques might conjure up images of beers, meat and merriment on a sweltering day in June, it’s actually May that has the honor of being National Barbecue Month.

    Barbeques, while endlessly popular and necessary during the … Read more

  • Easter Cocktails — Put A Hop In Your Step!

    Pull out the fake grass, jelly beans and multicolored eggs — it’s almost Easter! While it’s usually the children that get to indulge in this sweet, candy-filled holiday, we know that you need something to keep a smile on the grown-ups face, too! We’ve rounded up some of our favorite cocktails for your holiday pleasure. Enjoy!
      Easter Bunny Cocktail — if candy won’t give you the chocolate fix you need, try this rich, vodka cocktail.
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  • Earth Day – Organic & Sustainable Spirits

    Happy Earth Day!

    This year the beverage industry is full of sustainable and organic products. We’ve had the pleasure to try a few.

    360 Vodka: a 100% organic vodka from the Midwest.

    Veev: A sustainable açai spirit full of antioxidants and made with a process that uses 200% less energy than traditional methods.

    Root: An organic sassafrass, sarsparilla spirit from the folks at Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (that’s quite a word full).  … Read more

  • April Fool’s

    Seems like a good day for drinking? This day is one of fun, merriment and hoaxes. Of course, I have to work.

    Apple Fool’s Ingredients

    1 shot (1 ½ oz) of sour apple schnapps
    ½ oz grenadine
    Lemonade

    Instructions

    Fill a tall glass tumbler with ice. Add Sour Apple schnapps and grenadine. Fill remainder of tumbler with lemonade. Serve.

    Trickster Ingredients

    1 shot (1 ½ oz) of amaretto
    1 shot (1 ½ oz) of vodka… Read more

  • Spring Cocktails

    Well, we made through another winter—and not a moment too soon. Having survived last week’s Northeaster in NYC, this barkeep is ready for the warm weather.

    To help celebrate, our new friend Rebecca sent us four refreshing cocktails that evoke the brightness of spring. She was also kind enough to brave the storm and introduce me to some amazing cocktails at Sapa an extremely cool spot on 24th Street near Madison Park that serves French … Read more