Whether you're a professional or home mixer with just a few go-to drinks, there are certain essential ingredients in the cocktail maker's toolbox. Spirits provide the baseline. Ice keeps drinks frosty ...

Claire is Lifehacker's Senior Food Editor. She has a B.S. in chemistry, a decade of food journalism experience, and a deep love for mayonnaise and MSG. My fridge is full of syrups. Besides the ...

A staple behind every bar, simple syrup is one of those magic ingredients capable of bringing out the best in every drink without the fancy parlor tricks or sacrificing on refinement. This I know from ...

In an era where the home cocktail culture has flourished, yet access to high-quality ingredients remains limited, DIBS Mixers has emerged as a revolutionary solution. Founded by Ohio Crawford, a ...

Maple syrup adds texture, depth and structure that sugar can’t. Bartenders and whiskey makers explain how to balance it, what to pair it with and the mistakes to avoid.

At home cocktail mixing continues to be popular and amatuer bartenders everywhere are making their own concoctions. You can take your mixology skills to the next level with Cocktail & Sons' Fassionola ...

When it comes to the art of making great cocktails, there are certain aspects of the process that tend to be given inordinate amounts of attention and importance by the average consumer. It should go ...

How do you prepare your favorite specialty cocktail? Join the conversation below. From-scratch syrups with a thrifty bent are particularly enticing right now. This riff on the Saturn, a gin-based tiki ...