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The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter
By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
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The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party

Your next dinner party will be better with a caffeinated kick, and coffee concentrate makes a variety of tasty drinks and desserts easy.

By Nickolaus Hines
KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat
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KOW Steaks Made Me Ditch Mediocre Supermarket Meat

KOW Steaks might just be the best beef we've every enjoyed.

By John A. Paradiso
The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon
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The Canned Coffee That Gets Me Through Each Afternoon

In my house, there are two distinct coffee moments each day: the 7 a.m. brew and the 3 p.m. treat. The former is a slow, deliberate, and tactile experience with tools I love getting my hands on—grinding beans in a Fellow Ode Brew and filling up a Moccamaster. I stand…

By Cooper Fleishman
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This American Single Malt From a Luxury California Whiskey Brand Is the Perfect Special Occassion Bottle

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Some names in whiskey are famous because they’re plastered right on the bottle—Evan Williams, Jack Daniel’s, Elijah Craig, and so on. Other names are famous in a more subtle…

By Nickolaus Hines
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If You Like Tequila and Mezcal, Then It’s Time You Get To Know Sotol

Tequila is the second-best selling spirit category in the United States, after vodka. Mezcal is many (many) multiples less than that, but you might not guess as much by how hyped and cherished mezcal is by bartenders, liquor store owners, and the press (and yes, I include myself in that…

By Nickolaus Hines
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The 9 Hops That Every IPA Lover Should Know

You don’t have to be a scientist or a horticulturalist or a brewer to appreciate beer. You just have to have a lively palate and a sense of adventure. You don’t need an advanced degree to grasp the role hops play in shaping beer, either, but beer education is fun,…

By Andy Crump
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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…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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This Pizza Oven Will Have You Making Restaurant-Quality Pies In No Time

This is Worth The Hype, where our writers and editors put popular products to the test to see if they are, in fact, worth the hype. A few years ago, during my food blogging days, I was invited to a cheese festival in Burlington, Vermont (yes, they exist, and yes,…

By Brett Braley
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