When it comes to outfitting your home bar, most people think of spirits first and foremost. While that's not necessarily the wrong instinct, let me ask you this: how do you plan on drinking that? My ...

Technically speaking, you can drink a martini out of any glass. But having a great martini in a perfect martini glass is a specific kind of delight. No matter how you like your martini — with gin or ...

“What’s this?” asked the burly biker sitting at the bar and pointing at the delicate-rimmed cocktail glass. “It’s the martini you ordered,” I said. In hindsight, I should have known better. When ...

Can you make do without proper equipment? As anyone who has attempted to bartend at an Airbnb can attest, sure, kinda. But mixing cocktails is as much ritual as it is technique, and the right tools ...

Is a martini still a martini when it’s served in a highball glass? And why does a snifter of Bloody Mary just sound wrong? The real question is whether a tall highball would really change the taste of ...

Drinking glasses are more than just vessels for drinks. When you first start shaking up cocktails at home, using whatever ...

If you were in a distant city and wanted to find a drink, what symbol would you look for? The answer, on a map or in bright neon, is a vertical line bisecting a horizontal one, with an inverted ...