Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. It never made sense to me that more breweries don’t have small distilling operations…
Welcome to Add to Bar Cart, where Cool Material’s writers and editors recommend the spirits that they’re enjoying most right now. It’s easy to find gimmicky vodkas. You know the kind: They list an overabundance…
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. The martini definitely has a…
Where other vodka companies trick out their products with gimmicks and buzzwords, Crystal Head seems to be focusing on intentional ingredients and elevating their spirits to bring out the very best qualities. Onyx, for example,…
Crystal Head Vodka is always making waves these days primarily due to the unique and incredibly cool skull bottle. But the multi-award winning, ultra-premium vodka from Ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd continues to innovate in the world…
We’ve covered a lot of unique, unconventional and some might say crazy spirits over the years, but never anything like the vodka that Air Co. is currently producing in Brooklyn. Air Co. is using a…
Crystal Head Vodka is a multi-award-winning vodka from the legendary Dan Akroyd that works in everything from a martini to a Bloody Mary. But the spirit, despite being an absolutely delicious vodka, constantly gets overshadowed…
If you thought your Christmas tree was done after the post-Thanksgiving decorating bonanza, you were dead wrong. Smirnoff just dropped a whole line of vodka-filled ornaments, so there’s at least one more piece of boozy…
Reyka Vodka has garnered a reputation as being one of the purest vodkas in the world. Of course, that’s quite a distinction; one some more discernible boozehounds might find suspect. We traveled with the Reyka…
Everyone remembers college vodka. It came in a plastic jug with a Russian name splashed across the front. A fun stopper had to be removed before you could dump the contents into a tub of Kool-Aid.…
There are plenty of boozy ice creams on the market. The problem? They all lack one key element: they can’t get you drunk. If you want to get more than a brain freeze, you want…
The word “infusion” is appropriate. Rather than having a juice, extract, or sugar syrup that gets mixed into the spirit or cocktail, this processes fuses the flavors of whatever you’ve chosen with the deeper foundations…
Everyone knows about Fireball. The spicy, cinnamon-flavored whiskey that is beloved by frat boys and tailgaters alike. It’s pretty much the best thing since Jagermeister, right? Well, actually it isn’t. There are numerous other, much…
The consumption of alcohol is about as straightforward as human activities can get. You get alcohol and put it in your body. Do that six or seven times and you’ve participated in an activity older…
Vodka’s something we drink more out of resignation than enjoyment. We’d like to have a drink, but we’d much rather have that drink be a whiskey cocktail or a good local beer than some bastardization…
