Cocktail Queries is a Paste series that examines and answers basic, common questions that drinkers may have about mixed drinks, cocktails and spirits. Check out every entry in the series to date. I’ve ...

Whether you’re an impassioned cocktail snob or just a New Yorker with an Instagram account, chances are 2016 brought you into contact with the Negroni. This crimson quaff experienced a renaissance in ...

If you’ve flown all day — nearly missing your final connection — en route to your first work trip since 2019, and someone hands you a blessedly strong stirred cocktail, you accept it without question.

It’s National Bourbon Day! That means that it’s a great day to make a killer bourbon cocktail. Hell, let’s not just make one cocktail, let’s make a batch that we can enjoy for the rest of the week. A ...

A good cocktail needs a good (and slightly suspect) origin story. Here’s the Negroni’s: Hotel Baglioni, Florence, 1919, Pascal Olivier Count de Negroni wants more bite to his Americano – the classic ...

The Boulevardier cocktail is a lesser-known cousin of the Negroni cocktail. The drink is made with a Bourbon or Rye Whiskey, Campari and Sweet Vermouth and is believed to have been created in the ...

Just bourbon, banana liqueur, and sweet vermouth — an easy riff on the classic Boulevardier. The Banana Boulevardier is a spirit-forward cocktail made with just four ingredients: bourbon, sweet ...