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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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7 Bottles to Understand American Single Malt, the Country’s Newest Whiskey Category

It’s not often that a new whiskey style emerges. It takes balancing different ideals between producers to land on the exact definition, along with proving that the style is, in fact, distinct from what’s already available. New styles can mean confusion for both producers and consumers. But it’s also an…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Why Every Whiskey Lover Should Care About Grain-to-Glass Distilleries

Looking at a bottle of wine, the location of the vineyard is often front and center. The same can’t be said for whiskey, despite the fact that it, too, is an agricultural product. But there’s a set of distillers out there who are looking to change that, and the resulting…

By Nickolaus Hines
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Everything You Need to Know to Master Your Own Texas-Style Barbecue

The act of grilling is truly ritualistic. Mastering your grill requires real dedication and the acceptance that a grill can be an unforgiving appliance. Grill and barbecue enthusiasts dedicate years to practicing and perfecting this particular food preparation. And that's just to nail the basics. Only a select few of…

By John A. Paradiso
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The 4 Ways to Drink Whiskey That Every Guy Should Know

According to the great philosopher Ron Swanson, there is no wrong way to consume alcohol. That’s true down to the part where he is immediately proven wrong when he’s presented with the wrong way to consume alcohol. Infused hand lotions aside, when people set out to drink whiskey, they’re generally…

By Dillon McLaughlin
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Crafting The Morning Dram Barrel Aged Coffee With Keeper’s Heart in Minneapolis

If my name is familiar to you, it’s most likely because I’m the owner of two of New York’s most acclaimed and awarded whiskey bars, Fine & Rare and The Flatiron Room. It’s not easy to keep any business going in Manhattan for close to a decade, even without a…

By Tommy Tardie
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