Engineering The Sour
Science One cocktail to rule them all The Margarita, the Daiquiri, the Cosmopolitan, the Whiskey Sour, the Mai Tai: These and hundreds of other popular drinks can all be boiled down to one basic...
View ArticleHow Bars Are Using High-Tech Equipment To Make Better Drinks
Technology Cocktail engineers on the cutting edge are borrowing tools from laboratories and industry. As cocktails in top bars become increasingly sophisticated, more work is required to perfect them,...
View ArticleHow To Make Powdered Booze At Home
Technology Fluffy like confetti and just as liquorous as the bottled stuff Some truths we rarely question. The sky is blue. The sun rises in the east. Cocktails are wet. But a new product, called...
View ArticleVideo: Palcohol Inventor Demonstrates His Powdered Booze
Technology Reconstituting a cocktail before your eyes Since we heard about Palcohol, the infamous powdered alcohol -- and published our technique for making your own at home -- the product has come...
View ArticleCocktail Calculus Chart: The Inner Workings Of Recipes
Entertainment Understanding the interplay of acid, sugar, and alcohol gives essential insight into how a cocktail is structured The following is excerpted from Liquid Intelligence, a new book by...
View ArticleWhat Happens As Decades Pass In A Whiskey Barrel?
Science The science of how a spirit gets better over time When the The Glenlivet’s 50-year-old Winchester Collection single malt scotch whisky was freshly distilled in 1964, the new spirit would have...
View ArticleCan You Smell The Difference Between Bourbon And Rye?
Science The average drinker can't It’s not really possible to tell the difference between bourbon and rye simply based on aroma, according to a new study.
View ArticleInfrared Radiation Can Fine-Tune The Taste Of Whiskey
Technology Just blast the barrels with the right wavelength of light Using Infrared Radiation To Fine-Tune The Taste Of Whiskey…
View ArticleSan Francisco Fog Made Into Misty Martinis
Entertainment A new vodka comes from thin air Today Hangar One announced [www.hangarone.com/fogpoint] a limited edition vodka made with water harvested from Bay Area fog, most of it collected at the...
View ArticleCan Science Build A Fake Wine That's Just As Good As The Real Thing?
Science Vino without veritas Making fake wine, bypassing grapes entirely and going straight for the molecules…
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