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How to Make Persimmon Beer
When you gather persimmons, use a sheet on the ground and shake them with a broom onto the sheet. They break and bruise easily. If the persimmons are not mushy and a deep, orange-red or purple, they...
View Article6 Sparkling Red Wines You Need to Try
Rosé and Prosecco will always have a spot on our wine rack, but we’re looking forward to mixing things up a bit with sparkling red wine. These wines will change how you think about sparklings—just be...
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Tatra’s Winter Warmer: Creamy Mulled Beer
Mulled beer is a popular drink during Poland’s cold winter days, especially in the mountains. There are various ways of making it, but my dad’s version (which has a whisked egg in it) is the best....
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How to Make Whey Soda
One of the simplest fermented beverages to make is a whey soda. It combines the probiotic properties of whey with tasty fruits and sweeteners to create a bubbly drink teeming with good bacteria and...
View ArticleHomemade Eggnog Recipes
Eggnog. Eggs and milk and cream and sugar. Plus rum or brandy or bourbon or all three to give it an adult kick often lost on those who drink the premade stuff straight from the grocery store carton....
View ArticleHow to Make Your Own Liqueur
With a few simple ingredients, a little bit of effort, and a bit of patience to let time do its work, you can impress your friends and family with homemade liqueurs. In general, homemade liqueur...
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How to Make Homemade Shrub
If you have just one from-scratch ingredient for your home bar, it should be a shrub. Not to be confused with the bushy plants around your house, this kind of shrub is a vinegar syrup. And though the...
View ArticleThe Best Fruits for Making Homemade Wine
Wine can be made from more than just grapes. In many ways, grapes are the easiest fruit from which to make wine, but we also have a lot of expectations for wine made from grapes, a lot of ideas of how...
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Homemade Fruit Wine: Step-by-Step
Recipes for fruit wines, sometimes called country wines, vary only slightly from one another, and you have tremendous leeway in the fruits and fruit juices you can use. This recipe is a general one...
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Papaya the Sailorman Cocktail
A cocktail chock-full of vitamins. I couldn’t resist the title for this one. The two main ingredients are so good for you! Papaya is high in vitamin C and is great for digestion and your immune system....
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How to Make White Vermouth
While their red counterpart was concocted to be drunk all year round, these white renditions were created seasonally, utilizing ingredients we picked up from the farmers’ market or thought were right...
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Grapefruit Parsley Spritz – Easy Grapefruit Cocktail or Mocktail
Sweet-tart grapefruit and bitter parsley work together in this cocktail/mocktail to make something superbly refreshing. The key to this drink—beyond the unusual pairing of grapefruit and parsley—is the...
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A New Cocktail Book Shows You How to Spritz French Fluently
This cocktail recipe book from PUNCH and St-Germain showcases how the world’s top bartenders and tastemakers craft the spritz. This write-up comes to us from Edible Brooklyn…. Spritz. It’s a feeling as...
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Strawberry Rosé Sangria
This lighter, fresher, pinker take on sangria is a great match for spring and summer and strawberries. Traditional sangria would have brandy and/or more vodka in the mix, for a super boozy effect; the...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Neighborhood Bar
The latest, most welcoming phase of the 21st-century cocktail revival. High-end restaurant and hotel bars led the pack, ushering in an age that takes cocktail culture seriously and treats bartenders as...
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Team Spirits at Moonshine University
Distilled Spirits Epicenter in Louisville aims to be national hub for craft distilling. Mark Twain said people are essentially blind to opportunity because it’s dressed in overalls and looks like work....
View ArticleBlack Gold
Specialty coffee cultivation is taking root in California. Even the most devoted farmers-market mavens and locavores tend to make an exception for their morning coffee. Some bold California growers,...
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Rhubarb Shrub
The most refreshing beverage you can make this summer. The rosemary adds a woodsy, almost sweet note to this otherwise extra-tangy shrub. Shrubs are vinegar-based syrups, so they have a natural tang,...
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Cherry Lime Tonic
Cocktail or mocktail, this drink is a refreshing spin on a summer classic. An overabundance of cherries one weekend led to me putting them in everything—on pancakes, in salads, even making a...
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Cooling Green Agua Fresca
Sweet summer melon becomes a refreshing beverage with a visit to the blender. Any melon works here—both watermelon and cantaloupe are classic choices for agua fresca—but honeydew’s more delicate flavor...
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