The Bourbon Renewal was created by bartender Jeffrey Morgenthaler of Clyde Common. “It’s been a staple of mine for nearly fifteen years, and was one of the first drinks I ever created.” I came across it on a website iterating a list of modern drinks that deserved to be classics. Who could resist? A…

One of my favourite songs from the last few years is the cheeky and eminently danceable “Get Lucky” (despite that B insists it’s about someone after a dog … yeah, something like that). Discovering this week’s cocktail, the Get Lucky, seemed like a good omen. This cocktail is a modern mix that I found in…

Also known as a Red Moon Rising, this modern cocktail is a thoughtful twist on—no surprise here—the Manhattan. Since many of our cocktails last year called for bourbon, we had the pleasure of cracking open a new bottle and tiptoeing into new bourbon territory. Alas, none of us really noticed a difference. But the bottle…

In honour of Chinese New Year, we decided to turn our bowl of lucky mandarins into a pitcher of lucky cocktails. Excellent! But what to make? Well, after paging through endless recipes for mandarin mojitos and vodka-and-orange-juice-type drinks, I stumbled across a bunch that called, specifically, for Nicaraguan rum. We settled on Flor de Caña,…

We bought some rose water a few weeks ago and have been meaning to try it in a drink. After researching several cocktails featuring rose water, I came up with the gagliardo. In Italian, gagliardo means strong or robust, and I wondered what that would imply for this drink, apart from its three-ounce punch. Or…

Thanks to a little show that premiered in 1998, the Cosmo is one of the most popular cocktails of the last 20 years. What’s that? It couldn’t possibly have been t-w-e-n-t-y y-e-a-r-s since that show launched? No worries. I’ll just wait here while you check that math with my good friend, gravity… Hey, welcome back!…

It was Sunday, it was cold out, we were three instead of four, and no one had prepared a cocktail. Oh no! But then there was Mixologist to the rescue. Mixologist is an app Z has on his phone (available for Android or iOS) that helps you to find drinks based on your available bar stock. It…

Happy New Year! Here’s to 2017! We hope this year brings you many reasons to raise a glass with friends. For our New Year’s Eve dinner, we wanted a champagne-style cocktail without resorting to cliché. The recipe we followed is based on a recipe published in Style at Home magazine December 2016; it fit the…

“One sip of this hot apple-and-Drambuie cocktail will warm you to the core.”  With a sell line like that how could you resist. With two out of the four suffering from a cold and us expiring the first cold blowy day of the winter we were looking for something soothing. I discovered a selection of toddy’s…

The holiday season is officially upon us, which means the advent of four communopoly traditions: (1) a food bank shop at our local Sobeys, (2) a trip to Tony’s Pizza, (3) the stringing of Christmas lights across both balconies, and (4) the making and tasting of some homemade Irish Cream. Ours got its nickname from…