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Embrace the New Happy Hour With the Only USDA Organic THC Gummies
By Cool Material
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Why Buffalo Is New York’s Most Underrated Food Destination

Come for the wings, stay for the award-winning barbecue.

By Brandon Withrow
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Food
The Best-Looking Coffee Gear to Display on Your Counter

Make a tasty cup of coffee, and look great doing it too.

By John A. Paradiso
The Versatile Ingredient Every Host Should Have to Easily Liven Up a Dinner Party
Food
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
Drinks
Add to Bar Cart: The Vaults 2022 Release Blends Widow Jane’s Oldest and Rarest 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 no shortage of whiskey releases for bourbon lovers to keep track of. Many of the most sought after come from distilleries in Kentucky. But bourbon is America’s spirit,…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Drinks
5 Classic Scotch Cocktails Every Guy Should Know How to Make

It doesn't matter what the time of year is, it's always a good time for Scotch. For whisky devotees, if there's not at least a few bottles of Scotch on the bar cart (especially a minimum of one go-to bucket list bottle), then it's time to make a liquor store…

By Amos Kwon
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Features
The 2022 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout to Buy Based on What Type of Beer Drinker You Are

Goose Island introduced its Bourbon County Stout to the world in 1992. I, too, was introduced to the world in 1992. And while that means I don’t have an encyclopedic knowledge of the evolution of the much-hyped releases over the past 30 years, it does mean that I only know…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Entertainment
Churchill: A Drinking Life: Champagne, Cognac, and Cocktails

It's not exactly a secret that Winston Churchill enjoyed the occasional cocktail or two. However the legendary indulgences habits of the former Prime Minister are often blown out of proportion or simply untrue. Churchill: A Drinking Life: Champagne, Cognac, and Cocktails, written by Gin Sander and Roxanne Langer, is a…

By John A. Paradiso
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Drinks
How a Blind Bourbon Tasting Can Make You Rethink America’s Spirit

On a recent zoom tasting with a group of whiskey experts, I sat with two bourbons in front of me. The taster bottles were unlabeled other than a sticker that read “BOURBON WITH NO BOUNDARIES,” with “sample 1” underneath one bottle’s label and “sample 2” under the other. It was…

By Nickolaus Hines
How a Blind Bourbon Tasting Can Make You Rethink America’s Spirit