We recently attended the Nightclub and Bar Show in Las Vegas and here’s 5 trends we saw emerge from the 700 plus exhibitors. …Read More

Hopefully dad appreciates you just the way you are, but these items can’t hurt in helping him love you just a little bit more …

Highland Park 50

With only 275 bottles produced, this prestigious edition is set to become an exclusive collectors’ item.

Bottled at 44.8% ABV, Highland Park 50 Years Old is a vatting of five refill oak casks distilled in 1960.  This higher proof brings out richness of this special whisky.

Each … Read more

The Sipping Seder – A site of Passover Cocktails
Does the Perfect Bourbon Exist? – The Washington Post postulates
All 68 NCAA Tournament Teams Ranked by Their Best Drunk College Food – Endless Simmer
Fastest Bartender in the World – Zagat
For alcohol brands, social media a stiff cocktail – CNet
Six Pack Frame Cinch – The Awesomer
Columbia Koozie Hoodie – Uncrate
NY Times DIY Cooking Handbook. Sounds kinda like our new books DIY … Read more

Today is Pi Day! (March 14 is 3/14 … pi’s first digits are 3.14 … get it?) Even if the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter isn’t the type of thing you’d normally celebrate, Pi Day is another great reason to mix a cocktail.

The fun folks at ThinkGeek came up with this cocktail:

The ThinkGeek Pi-Tini

~ 3.14 ounces of blueberry vodka

~ “Measure the diameter of the glass in centimeters, then … Read more

Happy New Year! Back to the grind, at least we are 1/2 through the first week. Only 51 more to go.

The Barkeeper has publisher another issue, including a Random Drink Story from his upcoming book B.A.S.T.A.R.D.S,
Amaze your friends with the ice ball maker from Japan. It presses cubes into sphere. Cool!
SF Weekly has a list of tasty beer cocktails.
The Bottoms Up Beer Filler. Still trying to completely figure this one out, … Read more

When it’s time to break out the bubbly, make sure you open the bottle the right way!

This Champagne Key at Gent Supply Co. eliminates foaming and spilling. It also makes opening champagne so simple that you won’t worry for a second that you’ll put someone’s eye out.

How to Open a Bottle of Champagne 
Champagne Cocktail Recipes

Lock away your precious wine with this metal wine cage–complete with drawbridge door. The cage holds 12 bottles and is generally awesome. Also, it will totally impress and intimidate your guests.

“Even the most oblivious house guests can’t unintentionally uncork your finest bottle of Chateau Margaux when it’s kept under such tight security.”

Metal Wine Cage @ Cool Material (via NOTCOT)

I am a sucker for novelty ice trays … and therefore I am a sucker for FRED products. Love the Stone Cold ice tray! I’m ready to make cocktails with tiny Easter Island Moai in them.

Stone Cold Ice Cube Tray @ Perpetual Kid

Creep out your Halloween party guests by serving blood-red punch out of this dispenser that looks a bit like an IV drip.

In My Veins Drink Dispenser @ Amazon.com

Some punches that will look great in this:

Bloody Black Currant Punch
Blood Red Sangria
Dragon’s Blood Punch

Paul Loughridge took a Heineken mini-keg and made Beer2-D3, distant cousin to Star Wars droid R2-D2. Genius!

Maybe he needs a Beer-3PO to help keep him out of trouble.

[Via Make]