Artisanal Beverages
The Best Vodka For Bloody Marys
Unlike the many bright and fruity cocktails out there, the bloody Mary is a hearty, savory drink with a little heat. It's not surprising then that many people look for the best vodka for bloody Marys. …
The Best Vodka For Screwdrivers
Simple and versatile, the screwdriver is one of the world’s first vodka-based cocktails. Most cocktails have at least three ingredients, but the screwdriver features only two: vodka and orange juice. …
The Best Bottom Shelf Vodka
Vodka is a highly refined and processed spirit that is generally intended to have no strong or distinctive flavor and aroma. That hasn’t stopped some distilleries from going against the grain and …
The Best Tonics For Gin
You can’t really get more classic than a good, old-fashioned gin and tonic. Although it may seem like you’re mixing a couple of simple ingredients, there’s a whole world of flavors to experience when …
The Best Raspberry Vodka
Though small, raspberries carry a strong flavor that many love. They’re used in cakes, pies, smoothies, and more, in addition to being a great snack on their own. Raspberries are also an old fruit. …
The Best Vodka For Jello Shots
Colorful, sweet, and full of sugar, jello shots just scream “party.” They’re easy to make and don’t usually contain too much alcohol so you can play plenty of drinking games without going too far. …
The Best American Gin
Gin itself dates back to the early 16th century when juniper berries first made an appearance in alcohol. They were used in a spirit known as jenever, which is Dutch for “juniper” and was created in …
Is Tea Good For You?
Tea has a long history that spans many countries and cultures. While we still don’t precisely know who invented tea or when, we know that tea has been consumed for thousands of years, with widespread …
Tequila Vs Mezcal: Production, Aging, And Flavor
There’s a classic line that says all tequila is mezcal, but only some mezcal is tequila. In other words, tequila is a type of mezcal, much like bourbon is a type of whiskey. That statement is a useful …
The Best Peach Vodka
Vodka is most often intended to be a neutral drink – clean, crisp, and near flavorless. The less flavor a vodka has, while remaining smooth and clean, the more it tends to be praised. Even when …
Cold Brew Tea 101: Everything You Need To Know
Iced tea is an incredibly popular summer drink (and an excellent cocktail ingredient!), but what about cold brew tea? This new kid on the block isn’t as unusual as it seems. In fact, the name gives …
The Best Cherry Brandy
Cherry brandy is the most popular branch of cherry liqueurs, as brandy itself is already fruit-based and often sweet. Making brandy with cherries or adding their delicious natural essence makes for a …
The Best Gin Cocktails To Order Or Make At Home
Gin might not be as famous as whiskey for cocktails, but it is getting up there. In fact, gin is sometimes called the perfect spirit for cocktails, as it offers just enough complexity to make …
Is Tequila Good For You?
Tequila is often seen as a party drink, one that you down shot after shot of when you’re looking for a good time or want to drown your sorrows. However, tequila is much more than that. It can also be …
6 Types of Tea with 24 Different Varieties to Choose From
Whether you like it hot or cold, it would seem that tea is very much a part of the beverage choices you have in mind. And not surprisingly so, with so many types of tea out there, black tea and green …
Top 14 Tequila Mixers That Are Easy And Taste Fantastic
Tequila can be a little confusing for beginners. The alcohol has a distinctive flavor that combines well with some mixers and poorly with others. So, in this post, we’re looking at the top tequila …
Iced Tea Cocktails For All Seasons – 12 Recipes And Plenty Of Ideas
Iced tea is a popular drink, so why not enjoy an alcoholic version instead? Iced tea cocktails can be one of the best summer drink choices, as they are refreshing and cooling. There are many different …
The Best Mexican Tequila
Between the rich soil and warm climate, Mexico is the perfect region to create amazing tequila. There are several places where tequila is made within Mexico, but the beautiful Highlands of Jalisco is …
The Best Gin For a Tom Collins
Many of our classic cocktails come with long and illustrious histories or a deep, meaningful story behind them. This is not the case with the sugary sweet gin-based Tom Collins. This drink is, in …
The Best Whipped Cream Vodka
For such a simple mixture, whipped cream has so many amazing uses. It’s used to top up hot or sweet drinks like coffee, hot chocolate, or any number of lattes. Similarly, it goes well over cold, …
The Best Brandy For Eggnog
Eggnog is without a doubt a holiday classic. However, there is much debate about exactly how it should be consumed. Do you carefully craft the perfect drink with top-notch ingredients, or you do buy …
The Best Tequila For Palomas
Sweet, salty, bitter, and sour – the Paloma has a little bit of everything, plus some bubbles and alcohol! It doesn’t get much better than that for a fun, refreshing summer drink. Its mysterious …
Nespresso Vertuo Next Review From A Daily Espresso Drinker
Owning the Nespresso machine has turned me into a daily espresso drinker. I think I always was like this, but never had the opportunity. Now that making an espresso is 3 feet away from me at any time, …
The Best Fruity Vodka
There is no shortage of fruit flavors in the world of vodka – whether you want a refreshing sipper or a sweet cocktail, there’s something out there for everyone. A neutral vodka is a perfect …
16 Exciting Starbucks Drinks With Honey
If you want a fancy coffee drink, few companies are more famous than Starbucks. The giant chain typically uses sugar to sweeten their drinks, but there’s a surprising number of Starbucks drinks with …
The Best Juice With Vodka
Crisp and neutral, vodka is so often used in cocktails – and rightly so. The highly neutral expressions offer a perfect base for bold cocktails that want to bring their flavors forward. There …
The Best Cheap Tequila For Margaritas
The margarita is a fun, easy drink that’s popular in bars and at parties. It features lime juice and sugar, meaning it’s pretty sweet right from the get-go. This means that you don’t have to be too …
The Best Cheap Brandy
Brandy is a spirit that’s distilled from fermented fruit juice. While any fruit can, in theory, be used, grapes are the most common. This means that most brandy is made from wine. The name “brandy” …
Delicious Tea And Pastry Pairings That You Shouldn’t Live Without
Pairing food and wine is a common practice. Matching food with tea instead isn’t done nearly as often, especially not in the West. Yet, tea offers much of the same complexity that you find in wine, …
Top 22 Gin And Tonic Variations To Keep Your Cocktails Interesting
The approaches in this list cover a range of styles. Some of them are simple variations, where you might just be adding a single ingredient or getting creative with garnishing. Others are more complex …
The Best Grapefruit Vodka
While still part of the citrus family, grapefruit vodka stands out a little because it’s inherently less sweet than other types of citrus vodka. It’s got some sweetness in there, no doubt, but …
Tequila Worms And Other Creatures You Can Drink
Tequila worms are famous, partly because the idea is strange and really kind of gross. Honestly, who in their right mind wants a bug in their booze? You’d probably need a decent amount of tequila …
What’s The Difference Between Whiskey And Bourbon?
Whiskey and Bourbon are distilled spirits that are great for a lot of occasions. Be it at parties, dinners, or just a night out with friends, these two beverages can really lighten up the “spirits” of …
The Best Sipping Vodka
For many years vodka has been known as the go-to spirit for mixers and cocktails, largely due to its neutral taste and low price tag. There are many vodkas that are perfect for this – but the …
Holiday Drinks With Tequila That Give You Something A Little Different
Champagne and prosecco often top the list when we talk about holiday drinks, along with classic party cocktails, like mulled wine, sangria, and fruit punch. Tequila often doesn’t get a look in. That’s …
Best Breweries In Denver
Describing the best breweries in Denver is a surprisingly difficult task. The problem isn’t that there’s no good beer. Quite the opposite – there’s a huge number of different breweries, …
6 Ways To Drink Bourbon For The Best Possible Experience
Bourbon is always popular. With a smooth texture and pleasant notes of vanilla and caramel, this is a spirit to come back to time and time again. There are also clear rules about what can be defined …
Scotch Whisky vs. Irish Whiskey
Whiskey comes in many different varieties. This is because grain mash, the main component of any whiskey, can be made up of different grains, with either a focus on one grain or a mixture of a few. …
The Best Cheap Gin
The gin and tonic is among the most traditional and classic mixed drinks you can get. There are countless variations too. It’s an easy cocktail to make and overall, gin is abundant. It’s also easy to …
The Best Vodka to Drink Straight
Vodka has a reputation as a party drink, largely because of how potent it is. Not only does it take less vodka to get a person drunk but it also takes less time. It’s often taken as straight shots and …
13 Bourbon of the Month Clubs & Gift Baskets You Can Buy Online
I’m mostly a casual whiskey drinker but I’ve recently been experimenting with various whiskey of the month clubs. These have helped me learn more about the nuances of whiskey along with the …
The Best Caramel Vodka
Creamy caramel candies have been around for quite some time, though their exact origin isn’t clear. There are records of American settlers making hard candies around 1650, and caramels became popular …
The Best Top Shelf Vodka
Vodka is generally quite light and neutral, making it a popular base for many flavorful cocktails. It’s also a popular choice for taking shots, especially when it’s cheap. However, it’s these cheap …
The Best Tequila For Every Budget
Tequila is certainly an interesting spirit and one that is made and enjoyed all over the world. It’s made from agave, unlike any other spirit. The production of tequila has tough regulations but the …
Is Beer Good For You?
We know that beer is delicious and a great way to relax, but what does it mean for health? Most of us would say that beer is an unhealthy habit, one can easily lead to a beer gut and provides few …
The Best Botanical Gin
Gin is such an interesting and diverse spirit. While juniper is the base for any bottle of gin, you can put pretty much anything you want in there. Coriander, chamomile, cinnamon, and citrus peels are …
14 Flower-Based Teas That Offer Delicious Variety
If you want to get technical about it, tea comes exclusively from the Camellia sinensis plant. This is what gives us the classics, including oolong, black tea, white tea, green tea, and matcha. …
The Best Vanilla Vodka
Loved by so many, vanilla vodka is a classic flavor. You can get a vanilla version of almost anything, including vodka. Vodka itself dates back many centuries. One early reported existence of the …