If you’re entertaining a crowd on Fourth of July weekend, you may not want to spend your time shaking up high-maintenance cocktails ad nauseam for throngs of thirsty guests. But you likely still want to serve something festive. In that case, these refreshing red, white, and blue cocktails are just the ticket. In advance of your party, just mix up and freeze a batch of strawberry-lemon ice cubes (recipe below), which contain some of the essential elements of your cocktail. Then, when...

There is nothing worse than pouring a pint from the keg you tapped last week and finding that the pint has an “off” mouthfeel. In the evaluation of beer, texture can be a neglected category, especially in the era of super-hopped IPAs and adjunct-heavy stouts and porters. If a peanut butter and jelly porter is a bit flat, or a 7000 IBU Triple Imperial, Double Dry-Hopped IPA has a bit too much bite from carbonation, it may be overshadowed by the...

Where do you store your wine? On a bar cart? Your kitchen counter? In one of those built-in wine cubbies above your fridge? How long can a bottle sit there before you crack it open? A week? A month? A year or more? Do you chill it before you drink it? Truth be told, where and how long you store your wine, and at what temperature you serve it definitively matter. Under the right environmental conditions, wine will age gracefully....