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Bartenders Explain Why Cocktails Taste Better From the Bar (and How to Emulate Them)
On my walk to the bar, I rehearsed “para uno, en la barra está bien” exactly 30 times. I once read about a technique called mega-drilling, suggesting it takes 30 repetitions to cement a memory. I can’t tell you if it works, though. Because when I arrived at Baltra Bar,…
The 7 Best Leather Journals To Keep Your Thoughts in One Place This Year
A leather journal, more than just a collection of blank pages, can become a sanctuary for your thoughts--not to mention your mental well-being. Studies have found that regular journaling boosts mental health, helps you work through emotions and achieve goals, boosts memory, and inspires creativity. While you don't need the…
Black Book: The Cool Material Editors’ Favorite Things Right Now: December 2023
For many, the holiday season means wading through list after list looking for that perfect gift for the loved ones in your life (if you’re still on the hunt for a last minute gift, you just might find it among these gifts for him and gifts for her). And in…
The Best Car Detailing Kits To Keep Your Ride Clean as New
Keeping your car clean and sparkling like new is not an easy task. It requires a lot of effort, time, and money to maintain the exterior and interior of your vehicle. A car detailing kit can simplify this task for you, without you having to spend a fortune on a…
Houseplant’s New Ashtray 3.0 is the Most Stylish Ashtray You Can Buy
Some form of cannabis, whether recreational or medicinal, is now legal in the majority of states in the United States. By population, nearly 50 percent of Americans live in a state with legal recreational cannabis. Progress on ending cannabis prohibition was slow, and then very fast over the past decade…
The Ultimate EDC Guide With Everything You Need Before Leaving the House
In today's world, it's more important than ever to be prepared for anything. That's where EDC, or everyday carry, comes in. EDC is all about having the essential items you need on hand at all times, so you can handle whatever life throws your way. Exactly what makes each person's…
Murse, Tote, Handbag: Whatever You Call It, You Need One
Close your eyes and go back to the early 2000s. Bush was president. Facebook was a quaint idea. Digital cameras and Four Lokos were all the rage. It was also the height of cringey menswear portmanteaus. There were “mandals” for men’s sandals. And “meggings” for the compression tights cross-country runners…
6 Real World Treasure Hunts That Could Make You Rich
Real-world treasure hunting isn't limited to the movies. There are enough local legends, ancient texts, and conspiratorial histories out there that it's surprising someone isn't tripping over a hidden chest of emeralds every other day. The mere thought of discovering a chest filled with gold, jewels, or ancient artifacts has…
What to Drink This Weekend: Vesper
Looking for a new cocktail to try out this weekend? Want to wind down with a fresh new drink? We’ve got you covered. Here’s what you should drink this weekend. I don't consider myself much of a vodka drinker. I think it's wise to keep a bottle on one's bar…
The Best Sour Beers To Drink This Summer
Increasingly, craft beer brewers and patrons have turned toward lagers - pale, dark, Pilsners, Helles, bocks - as the breezy de facto alternative to the God Emperor of the craft industry, the IPA. People want options, and they want beer they can recognize immediately as “beer” as codified by America’s…
Stuck In a Beer Rut? Try These Offbeat Beer Styles Instead of Your Go-to
The Cicerone Beer Style Profiles flipbook and its expansion pack, both of which I used to help me put this guide together, list 60 different beer styles between the two of them and those 60 are by no means exhaustive. By contrast, almost every brewery I’ve visited in the past…
10 Flavored Whiskeys Actually Worth Drinking, According To Bartenders
You can say what you will about flavored whiskeys, but there’s definitely a market for them. Take a stroll down the aisle at your local liquor store or peruse an online retailer and you’ll find seemingly countless bottles. That being said, it feels like drinkers either love them or hate…
The One Adventure App You Need For Every Backcountry Trip
Planning an adventure into the mountains requires a niche skillset that includes the ability to accurately research, route, and execute your plan of action safely and efficiently. Experienced expeditioners will tell you that getting to this point takes years of practice–at least, it used to, until the proliferation of the…
The 10 Best Small Batch Bourbons Under $50
Just like “cask strength," you’ve likely seen the phrase “small batch” scrolled on the label of your favorite bottle of bourbon. But even if you’ve seen it often, you might not have ever stopped to think about what the phrase means. Well, like with many terms in the whiskey world,…
Former Esquire Editor Jay Fielden Speaks On Defining Personal Style and His Latest Project With Dewar’s
Jay Fielden has influenced the way men live and style themselves for more than three decades. He was the founding editor in chief of Men’s Vogue, as well as worked as the editor in chief of Town & Country and Esquire. His writing has been published in The New Yorker,…
