Classic · Re-tested
The Old Fashioned, finally settled.
Eleven bartenders, four ryes, one week of arguments. The version we pour on a Wednesday when nobody's watching.
This Week · Boobar Wire #214
1,247 cocktails. Every one re-made in the last eighteen months.
The recipe index isn't a content farm. It's a tested, rated, ever-refreshed archive — built in a 1,800 sq ft Brooklyn test kitchen, not from a laptop. Start with this week's lead pour, then fall into the database by spirit, era, difficulty, or glass.
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Four editorial taxonomies. Pick a starting point — every recipe carries a tested-by, last-remade date, and a difficulty rating from our panel of eleven.
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The Recipe Index
Latest recipes, tested and rated.
Modern · 2008
Paper Plane, the one Sam would still pour.
Equal parts of four ingredients is the easy part. The hard part is the Aperol you actually want to drink.
Twist · Reader request
A Mezcal Negroni that earns the smoke.
Not a substitution. A separate drink, with a different bitter and a smaller dose of vermouth than you think.
Classic · Pre-Prohibition
The Hemingway Daiquiri, without the maraschino lie.
Three ounces of grapefruit juice is the recipe's worst idea. Here's the one we actually serve, with the Luxardo accounted for.
— A note from the test kitchen
Every recipe in this index has been made at least twice by our staff in the last eighteen months — not because we're precious, but because the last time you trusted a cocktail blog, the proportions were off by a quarter-ounce and nobody noticed. We notice. We re-rate, we re-photograph, we update the dilution note when a vermouth quietly changed its formula, and we publish the diff. If a recipe here is wrong, it is wrong in writing, with a date attached, and we fix it before the newsletter goes out.
— Jenna Marlowe, Editor-in-Chief · Brooklyn, NY
What we're shaking this month
Staff picks.
Pick of the Week · Issue 214
The dry Martini, with a wet handshake.
After four months of side-by-side panels and a freezer test we invented just to stop arguing, this is the Martini we order when nobody's paying attention. A 50/50 split of two gins, vermouth by the teaspoon, and a temperature rule we wish more bars would learn.
Staff Pick · Equal parts
The Last Word, with the chartreuse you can find.
Staff Pick · Campari
A Boulevardier for people who say they don't like Campari.
Staff Pick · Modern classic
The Penicillin, with the float done right.
By the numbers
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Six facts that have to be true before any recipe lands on this index. No metric is borrowed, none are projections, none are paid placements.
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1,247
Original cocktail recipes published and re-tested
Every entry made by staff in the last 18 months.
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412
Spirits reviewed in 2024 across whiskey, gin, agave, rum
The largest independent review panel in North America.
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Newsletter open rate on the Boobar Wire
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Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award, Best Cocktail Writing
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