The cocktail renaissance of the early 2000s did a lot for the world of bartending. Not only did it bring the artistry and creativity of bartending to the forefront, but it paved the way for a new ...

It’s not often that you see someone order rye whiskey, straight up. And there’s a reason: Unlike its siblings, bourbon and scotch, rye is more dry, delivering a fascinating, spicy kick as it goes down ...

Before you tweak the recipe, it’s best to learn the classic. And the classic starts with a simple question: bourbon or rye?

Sean Kenyon knows how to pour out both drinks and advice. A third-generation bar man with almost 25 years behind the bar, he is a student of cocktail history, a United States Bartenders ...

Tim Sweeney, Head Bartender of Pebble Bar at Rockefeller Center in New York, demonstrates how to mix five whiskey cocktails of increasing complexity. Hi, I'm Tim Sweeney, head bartender here at Pebble ...

If you passed through New York’s iconic Times Square this past June and looked up from your smartphone, you would have seen the world’s largest Paper Plane cocktail. Seven times an hour for two weeks, ...

Bartenders spend their shifts crafting drinks to suit their customers’ many tastes — but their own preferences often look quite different once the bar closes. After hours of mixing cocktails, some ...

Shots are such a conundrum…[they ’re] really just cocktails in 1 ounce form; mixed drinks rationed out by the ounce.” In ...

The best cocktails have well-balanced flavors, and for classic drinks like a whiskey sour, getting the flavor right is easy ...

If you want to know how to drink Scotch like a Scot, you need to ask a Scotsman (and preferably an ex-bartender who lives in ...

Some nights, I’m dropping off recyclables at two in the morning, but that’s an awesome feeling,” says Jon Schott, Riff Raff’s ...

Fall is all about transitions, and not necessarily the happy kind. The days are shorter. The nights are colder. The leaves fall off the trees, which reminds you of the inevitability of death. It’s all ...