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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
Features
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,…

By Christopher Osburn
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Mount Gay 1703 Rum Is As Complex and Enjoyable As Your Favorite Whiskeys

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. There’s something poetic about rum: ambrosia squeezed from the cane’s rugged stalk, perfume of the Tradewinds captured in a glass, nectar as dark and seductive as a tropical night.…

By Johnny Motley
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Single Grain Bearface Whisky Makes the Most of Canada’s Extreme Weather

Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. Canadian whisky conjures a certain set of biases among whiskey drinkers. It typically uses a mix of corn, rye, wheat, and barley that are all distilled and aged separately…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Give the Gift of Great Cocktails This Valentine’s Day With Oak & Eden’s Collaborative Cocktail Kits

When it comes to perfect Valentine's Day gifts, there's almost nothing that competes with the collaborative cocktail kits released in partnership between Oak & Eden and Cheeky Cocktails. Available in Espresso and Napa options, each kit combines a unique Oak & Eden spirit, Cheeky syrup and a rocks glass that…

By Pat McLaughlin
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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,…

By Lanny Fuller
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