Drink Recipes

How to Batch Cocktails for a Crowd

Everything you need to know to easily prepare a batch cocktail for a batch of guests.

Beer Pairings 101: Sour, Tart, and Funky Beers

How to pair sour, tart, and funky beers with food.

Beer Pairings 101: Fruity and Spicy Beers

How to Pair Saisons, Tripels, and Wheat Beers With Food

Beer Pairing 101: Rich and Roasty Beers

Porters and stouts go well with more than just dessert.

Beer Pairing 101: Malty and Sweet Beers

Learn how to pair malty-sweet dubbels, doppelbocks, Scotch ales, and more with your favorite winter foods.

Beer Pairing 101: Hoppy and Bitter Beers

Think IPAs and other hop-heavy beers are too bitter to taste good with food? Think again.

Beer Pairing 101: Crisp and Clean Beers

Learn what foods pair best with crisp and clean beers, like pilsner, amber lager, blonde ale, helles, kölsch, maibock, and märzen.

What's the Difference Between Espresso and Coffee?

Sort of like how a horse is a quadruped, but a quadruped is not necessarily a horse.

The Spirit of Mexico: A Guide to Mezcal

An introduction to mezcal.

Sherry 101: An Introduction to the Hippest Old-Person Drink Around

Learn to tell your Amontillado from your Palo Cortado.

Why You Should Buy an Entire Case of Sparkling Wine for the Holidays

Why and how to stock perfect back-up gift that everyone loves.

Cocktails 101: How to Shake a Cocktail

Are you shaking yours right?

Why Tea Addicts Go Crazy for Pu-Erh

Ever drank a tea as old as you are?

A Beginner's Guide to Drinking Better Oolong Tea

What's the tea that drives tea lovers wild? Follow oolong to find out

A Beginner's Guide to Drinking Better Green Tea

The essential guide to getting better green tea, which will in fact give you superpowers

How to Use Honey in Cocktails

It's time to look beyond sugar. How to use honey in cocktails

Should You Really Only Cook With Wine You'd Drink?

Should you really only cook with a wine you'd drink? @dgritzer finds out the truth

Use Our Booze-o-Matic Drink Calculator to Plan Your Cocktail Party

Throw a heck of a bash without blowing all your cash.

Single Malt, American Style: A Delicious New World of Whiskey

The Serious Eats Guide to Essential Cocktail Techniques

Tips, essential pointers, and the wisdom of a few stellar bartenders, all in one guide.

The Best Way to Store Vermouth

The Best Way to Store Vermouth

Coffee Science: How to Make the Best Pourover Coffee at Home

How Coffee is Processed Around the World

How to Build a DIY Home Carbonation Rig

The Science of Jello Shots

The Serious Eats Cheese and Wine Pairing Cheat Sheet

The Serious Eats Guide to Holiday Beer Pairing

Tips for Planning a Holiday Cocktail Party

10 Bourbon Terms You Should Know

Corked, Cooked, Bretty, Bad: How to Spot 7 Common Wine Flaws

Cork taint is just one wine flaw you can learn to identify; here's our guide to seven of the most common.

Cocktails From a Low-Stocked Bar: A Guide to Substitutions

Cocktail Science: All About Foams

How to Host A Beer and Cheese Tasting Party

How to Host a Mother's Day Beer Brunch

The Serious Eats Guide to Tequila

The Serious Eats Guide to Irish Whiskey

What Is the Difference Between Single Malt and Blended Whisky?

What's the difference between single-malt and blended whisky, anyway?

How to Make Awesome Coffee For A Crowd

Coffee Tragedies: The Shattered French Press

Cocktail 101: How to Muddle Mint and Other Herbs

Thinking Big for Summer Party Drinks

Cocktail 101: Glassware Basics

How to tell your rocks glass from your highball.

How to Plan and Host a Cocktail Party

The Science of Fat-Washing Cocktails

Ask a Sommelier: The Best Wine for Thai Food

Why Tea Addicts Go Crazy for Pu-Erh

Ever drank a tea as old as you are?

Cocktail Science: Do Alcohol Calories Count?

A Beginner's Guide to Spanish Wine

The Hows and Whys of Blooming Coffee

To bloom, or not to bloom, that is the question.

US-Grown Tea Is Incredibly Rare. This Small Farm Is Blazing a Trail

The tiny Great Mississippi Tea Company may offer a few lessons in how domestic tea production could take off.

Behind the Phenomenon That Makes Your Wine Smell Like Farts

What does it mean if a wine is reduced? Industry experts tease apart some wine science to make sense of this controversial wine flaw.

The Drink of the Gods: An Introduction to Pulque

Pulque is a lightly fermented drink that is inextricably tied to Mexican identity.

The Case for Bad Coffee

Bad coffee is there for you.

Behind the Scenes at Casa Herradura Tequila Distillery

What "Selling Out" Allows a Craft Brewery to Do

Does anything actually improve when Big Beer buys you?

Coffee's Third Wave (Finally) Washes Ashore in Seattle

Why I Drink ESB

Plus, a few extra-special favorites.

Why a Control State Might Be Your Best Bet for Finding Rare Spirits

The one-of-a-kind bottles that you might find only through government-run liquor stores.

The Fall and Rise of Zimbabwe's Coffee Economy

Behind the Scenes: Making Olmeca Altos Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico

So You Think You Want to Open a Brewery...

The Best Universal Wine Glasses

We tested 10 universal wine glasses to see which ones perform best with red, white, and sparkling wines.

Batch Cocktails: A Serious Eater's Guide to Drinks for a Crowd

A new cocktail book exploring creative big-batch drink recipes.

The Best Coffee Grinders

We dive deep on the grinder that's best for your morning cup.

This Flowchart Will Find Your Signature Holiday Cocktail

Make finding the perfect holiday drink fun and interactive—with flowcharts!

Great Gifts for Cocktail, Wine, and Beer Lovers

Everything you need for spirited festivities.

The Best Blender for You: Expensive Versus Budget Buys, Tested

Just how much performance bang do you get for your buck?

The Best Coffee Makers

Our top picks of automatic-drip coffee makers.

Our Favorite Gifts for Coffee and Tea Lovers

Gifts for the coffee and tea lover.

The Best Electric Kettles

Making tea or coffee? We put electric kettles to the test to find the best tool for the job.

Tea Essentials: The Only Teaware You Really Need

Skip the silly gadgets. Here's the tea-brewing gear you actually need

More Than Just Peat and Smoke: The Best Islay Single Malts

Looking for a special Father's Day gift? These are the best Islay single malts you can buy

The Best Gin for a Martini

We drank ALL THE MARTINIS to determine the best gin for the job

Where to Buy Amazing Tea Online

Buying tea online is risky business, but these companies will never let you down

The Best Gin to Buy on a Budget

The best gins that'll run you less than an Andrew Jackson

The Best Scotch to Buy on a Budget

Mo' money = mo' fancy Scotch. But here are our favorite bottles for a bit less scratch:

The Best Tequila for a Margarita

The 10 Best Budget Rums

10 Absinthes You Should Be Drinking

Taste Test: Should I Use Filtered or Bottled Water for Tea?

The 7 Best Budget Tequilas

Good, cheap tequila for what ails you.