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32 results for "Martini"
🍹 Cocktails (10)
📖 Guides (10)
Cocktail Family Deep Dives
The Old Fashioned: Original Cocktail
The Old Fashioned is where the word 'cocktail' was born — spirit, sugar, water, bitters. Understanding it is understanding the DNA of all mixed drinks.
Cocktail Family Deep Dives
Martini & Manhattan: Spirit + Vermouth
The Martini and Manhattan share the same two-ingredient DNA — spirit and vermouth — but produce radically different drinks. Understanding their shared template reveals why.
Cocktail Family Deep Dives
Tiki: The World of Exotic Cocktails
Tiki cocktails are rum-based, multi-ingredient, elaborate productions rooted in 1930s American escapism. Understanding their taxonomy unlocks some of the most complex drinks in bartending.
Cocktail Family Deep Dives
The Cobbler & Fix: Forgotten Families
The Cobbler and Fix were once as ubiquitous as the Sour and Martini. Understanding these forgotten families reveals how much cocktail history has been lost — and how much is worth recovering.
Cocktail History
The Golden Age of Cocktails: 1860-1920
Between the Civil War and Prohibition, American bartending became a high art. Jerry Thomas, the grand hotel bar, and the birth of the classics defined an era.
Cocktail History
The Dark Ages: 1970s-1980s Cocktails
Neon colors, premixed sours, and the Harvey Wallbanger. How disco, convenience culture, and industrial spirits nearly killed the cocktail — and why it matters.
Cocktail History
The Craft Cocktail Revival: 1990-2010
Dale DeGroff, Milk and Honey, Sasha Petraske: how a small band of obsessives in New York reclaimed the craft and changed bars everywhere.
Cocktail History
The History of the Martini
The most argued-about drink in history: from the muddy Martinez to the bone-dry modern martini, via Bond's famous mistake and decades of vermouth paranoia.
Cocktail History
The History of the Daiquiri
From Cuban iron mines to Hemingway's Havana to frozen machines in airport bars: the Daiquiri's journey is the story of rum, empire, and what happens when a great drink gets famous.
Cocktail History
The Rise of Japanese Cocktail Culture
The hard shake, diamond-cut ice, and bars where silence is mandatory: how Japan's obsession with craft transformed global cocktail culture.
📚 Glossary (10)
Coupe Glass
Shallow, broad-bowled stemmed glass (5-7 oz) that has largely replaced the V-shaped martini glass in modern craft bars. Legend attributes …
Kahlúa
Mexican coffee liqueur made with Arabica coffee, sugarcane spirit, and vanilla. The key ingredient in Espresso Martini, White Russian, and …
Martini Family
Spirit + vermouth (and/or other modifiers), stirred and served up. Includes the Martini, Manhattan, Negroni, Rob Roy, and Boulevardier. The …
Martini Glass
Iconic V-shaped stemmed glass with a wide rim and long stem. While visually striking, the wide opening causes drinks to …
Nick & Nora
Rounded-bowl stemmed glass (5-6 oz) named after Nick and Nora Charles from 'The Thin Man' films. Elegant for spirit-forward cocktails …
Nitro Cocktail
Cocktails dispensed through a nitrogen tap system, creating a creamy, cascading texture similar to Guinness. Nitrogen dissolves less than CO₂, …
Orange Bitters
Citrus-forward bitters made from orange peel, cardamom, caraway, and coriander. Once a standard Martini ingredient (pre-Prohibition), now experiencing a revival. …
Rum
Sugarcane-derived spirit spanning white (unaged), gold (lightly aged), dark (heavily aged), and overproof expressions. Production methods vary wildly by region: …
St-Germain
French elderflower liqueur launched in 2007, dubbed 'the bartender's ketchup' because it pairs well with everything. Delicate floral-tropical flavor at …
Swizzle Stick
A stirring device originally carved from the Bois Lélé tree (Quararibea turbinata) in Martinique, with radiating prongs at one end. …