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Follow this easy Greyhound cocktail recipe and craft the 2-ingredient cocktail at home in just a few minutes. It's simultaneously refreshing and tart - a winning combination. The word greyhound evokes different reactions from different people.

Greyhound: Easy 2-Ingredient Summer Cocktail

The Mai Tai cocktail isn't just the most iconic tiki drink. It's also a classic rum cocktail that's easy to craft at home and even easier to sip. Saying the words 'mai tai' makes us smile and elicits thoughts of sandy beaches and swaying palm trees. But better than saying the words, we love sipping Mai Tai cocktails whether we're on vacation, in a bar or at home.

Mai Tai: Iconic Tiki Rum Cocktail

If we had to (for some strange reason) pick only one spirit to mix with, it would be bourbon whiskey. We understand that spirits like gin, vodka, white rum, and blanco tequila are more well-suited for summery cocktails. And while summer is the season in which we’re most likely to whip up a cocktail or two, we believe that bourbon is the perfect spirit for all seasons.

Learn these classic bourbon-based cocktails

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Mens Journal

The bourbon from the stalwart brand features an age statement for the first time since 2014.

Jim Beam's Tasty New Whiskey Is Surprisingly Cheap

There's lots to love about whiskey, with its regional nature an especially captivating property. It's intriguing to sample liquors from different places, noting the unique ingredients, distillation methods, and barrel qualities that go into a spirit's terroir. And for drinkers who like to get especially technical — and don't mind their spirit a bit more aromatic — Scotch is a special candidate.

What Is Scotch Made From Actually?

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On Thursday, Santa Teresa 1796 unveiled the latest in a series of cask finishes that mingle rum with unexpected, often underutilized influences. While last year's bottling recruited Speyside scotch whisky casks for the task, this year's has gone full throttle on cold brew.

Dubbed Arabica Coffee Cask Finish, the expression begins life as the brand's flagship triple-aged Solera rum. Setting to work behind the scenes, American white oak casks were filled with coffee beans and four-year rum reserves to create a hybrid cold brew minus the typical addition of water. The spirited brew was left to rest in the casks for...

Venezuela’s Oldest Rum Producer Recruits Cold Brew Barrels for Arabica Coffee Cask Finish Bottling

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While we often like to provide tips on how to save money on whiskey, here are some great bottles that are actually worth splurging on.

19 Bourbons So Good That You’ll Want To Start Splurging

Royal Caribbean's drink packages offer unlimited beverages during a cruise, but the question is how much can you practically consume every day. The premise of a drink package is pay a flat fee to enjoy as many cocktails, beers, glasses of wine, coffees, and bottles of water as you like during your cruise. Drink packages have become incredibly popular with cruisers, and the average price has steadily gone up over the years.

How many drinks per day can you have with a drink package? Cruisers debate amount

For some of us, enjoying a glass of white or red with dinner is a pleasurable experience. But we may not always want to spend a fortune on a celebrated brand or a vintage bottle. Thankfully, there is a large variety of fortified vinos, blends, and varietals for just about any budget, which means you do not have to spend an arm and a leg for a good bottle with a nice ABV, or alcohol by volume.

The Cheapest Wines You Can Buy With The Highest Alcohol Content

The Lemon Drop Martini is a classy citrus sipper that's served with a frosty, sugar-studded rim. It's also super easy to craft at home and tastes like liquid candy. Could there be anything better than a cocktail that tastes like candy? Obviously, this is a rhetorical question for true lovers of both candy and cocktails. The better question is which cocktail tastes like candy without tasting too sweet or, even worse, cloying.

Lemon Drop Martini: Classy Citrus Sipper

Enter a wine shop or explore the selection at a large grocery store and the red vino varieties can feel endless. With thousands of grape types used, knowing the difference between styles like Cabernet franc and Cabernet sauvignon is just the tip of the iceberg. In addition to varietals, there are the distinct ways grapes from different locations taste, as well as winemaker-constructed blends to consider. (Many of which are often the best red wines available under $30.)

These Are The Sweetest And Driest Red Wines You Can Drink

While there's nothing quite like a bagel with cream cheese, there are so many toppings beyond the basics that will take a standard bagel to new heights. Cream cheese might be the go-to condiment, but don't be afraid to think out of the box about other types of creamy spreads, savory dips, and even extra indulgent desserts on top of your bagel.

15 Bagel Toppings Beyond Cream Cheese To Try ASAP

You don’t have to break the bank to create refreshing cocktails this summer when you can opt for these just as delicious, affordable whiskeys instead.

9 Smooth, Affordable Whiskeys You Can Mix Into a Summer Drink Guilt-Free

You won’t need to be a whiskey connoisseur to realize these bottles are totally worth the splurge.

12 Expensive Whiskeys Truly Worth Splurging On

Softened or "room temperature" butter is an essential ingredient in baking, typically creamed with sugar as the first step in making cakes, slices, muffins, and cookies. It's also a crucial element in creating deliciously fluffy buttercream frosting. But as any home baker will know, transforming a rock hard block of butter into something more squidgy is easier said than done. Soften the butter too little, and it won't blend with the sugar, ultimately creating dense and heavy bakes. Soften it too much, on the other hand, and it will give you a greasy, loose batter with a flat, soggy result.

Mary Berry's Go-To Technique To Soften Butter Quickly

Fish and chips is a classic seafood dish served at many restaurants, thanks to its straightforward cooking process and compelling crunch that gives way to tender, flaky flesh. It's just fish that is coated in batter and deep-fried, then served with a side of French fries, which are called "chips" because of the street food's close ties to the United Kingdom (in the U.K., fries are referred to as chips).

What Is The Mystery Fish In Your Fish And Chips?

The perfect roasted potato is a study in contrasts: crispy on the outside, fluffy on the inside, and bursting with hot, concentrated spud flavor. Yet attaining this nirvana of a side dish seems like a fool's journey, full of potential limp and watery pieces — or at least, nothing that crackles when you bite into it.

Secret Ingredients You Need To Start Adding To Roasted Potatoes

Pizza is easily one of the reigning champs of leftovers since forever; easy to grab the next day and enjoy cold straight out of the fridge (as some may prefer), or popped in the microwave to get warmed back up. But for those who argue that warm is better and routinely gravitate toward the microwave as their method of choice, there's a better way — and it's sitting right on your countertop.

Reheat Pizza In The Air Fryer With This Simple Tip For Crispier Crust

Let's be honest: The names of beef cuts are often confusing. From sirloin to strip steak to ribeye and eye of round, it's all too easy to mix up different parts of the animal. Yet if you know the specifics of a certain cut, you can unlock marvelous meat magic. One of the best examples of such hidden potential is the chuck flap, also known simply as flap meat and the edge roast.

Chuck Flap: The Rich Beef Cut You Need To Try Slow-Cooking

Perhaps you're one of the many people who've switched from milk to dark chocolate because the latter has less sugar and more antioxidants. But before you tear into that candy bar or hit the kitchen to start cooking up a homemade treat (like our salted caramel recipe), there's something you should know. Your dark chocolate may be hiding an even darker secret. It's known to contain two heavy metals — cadmium and lead — that can cause harmful health effects. Pregnant people and children are at higher risk.

The Dark Chocolate Brands With The Lowest Lead And Cadmium Levels

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The Best Cocktails For Cognac

If you're looking for a smooth, dark spirit with a complex flavor profile, it's hard to do better than cognac. Named for the Cognac region of...

The Best Cocktails For Cognac

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