The Caesar Cocktail, invented in Canada, is a Bloody Mary that uses Clamato juice instead of tomato juice. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to make the cocktail so popular that there was once a movement to make it the Canadian national drink!

How to make the Caesar cocktail

The gin and tonic is an extremely simple drink to make, but is that any reason to avoid it? Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to create this easy and delicious classic cocktail.

How to make a gin and tonic cocktail

The vessel from which we drink our cocktails should not be overlooked. Whether traditional, iconic or modern, cocktail expert Robert Hess explains that the glassware used in serving a guest says a lot about what's inside.

How to choose glassware for your cocktails

There are a few different recipes with the name "White Lady." Many of them are by Harry MacElhone, who created the drink in 1919. Here, cocktail expert Robert Hess shares the recipe as it was served by Harry Craddock at the Savoy cocktail bar in London.

How to make the White Lady cocktail

The December 1934 edition of Esquire Magazine includes a list of the Top 10 most popular cocktails, starting with an Old Fashioned and ending with a Daiquiri. The rest of the drinks on the list are reasonably well known, except for one - the Harvest Moon. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to make one!

How to make the Harvest Moon cocktail

This versatile drink is perfect hot or cold, served as a punch or individual cocktails! Watch as mixologist Charlotte Voisey shows us how to make the delicious Farmer's Daughter cocktail.

How to make the Farmer's Daughter cocktail

The Old Cuban is closely related to the Mojito, but with far more elegance. Watch as Robert Hess shows us how to make this sophisticated cocktail, topped with Champagne!

How to make an Old Cuban cocktail

What is the most important ingredient in any cocktail? Hints: it used to be a liquid, it can be made into any shape, and it's very cold! Mixologist Jamie Boudreau shows us which types of ice to use with different cocktails.

How to use ice in cocktails

Start your day right with the delightfully refreshing Breakfast Collins. Here, mixologist Jamie Boudreau shows us how to make this delicious cocktail - with jam!

How to make a Breakfast Collins cocktail

The &quot;cobblestone&quot; shape of crushed ice gives this delicious, fruity drink its name. Mixologist Charlotte Voisey shows us how to crack the ice and mix this refreshing cocktail!

How to make a strawberry rhubarb cobbler cocktail

Mixologist Jamie Boudreau brings back the "golden ratio," and discusses proper technique when opening a corked bottle of wine or vermouth. The resulting cocktail, Kentucky Medicine, will surely cure what ails you.

How to make the Kentucky Medicine cocktail

Fresh herbs add a wonderful aroma and flavor to cocktails. The Clover Club cocktail, originally created for the gentlemen at the Philadelphia club of the same name, is a pre-prohibition cocktail dating back to at least 1911. Chef and mixologist Kathy Casey gives it a bit of a twist with her homemade raspberry syrup and the addition of fresh thyme from her garden.

How to make the Clover Thyme Club cocktail

A Manhattan is a sophisticated cocktail that isn't for the faint of heart.  Mixologist Allen Katz shows how to mix a classic Manhattan.

How to mix a classic manhattan cocktail

Can you imagine how many drinks Don, Peggy and Roger have had throughout the seven seasons of Mad Men? It might be beyond measure, so we compiled five of the most iconic cocktails from martinis to old fashionedsmixed by five of our finest experts.

Mad Men Cocktails: Top 5 Classic Drinks

Once you have your seasonal fruit purees ready, chef and mixologist Kathy Casey recommends using them in a delicious seasonal lemon drop cocktail! Each fruit provides a whole new experience for your palate.

How to make a seasonal lemon drop cocktail

The Bordeaux cocktail was created by the owner, and sometimes bartender, of Mona's Bistro & Lounge in Seattle. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows us how to make this two-ingredient drink that's both simple and elegant!

How to make the Bordeaux cocktail

There are various origin stories of the Jack Rose cocktail. It's been attributed to a criminal, a bartender and a rose varietal. Regardless of its origins, it's delicious! Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to make this Applejack-based drink.

How to make the Jack Rose cocktail

Decadent and smooth, the Espresso Martini is part cocktail, part dessert. Mixologist Charlotte Voisey shows us how to shake up this divine cocktail.

How to make an espresso martini

The Fairbank is a vintage cocktail that dates back to sometime before the 1920's. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shares the recipe for this interesting twist on a martini. Serve in a coupe glass with a cherry!

How to make the Fairbank cocktail

The Grasshopper Cocktail was submitted as an entry to a New York cocktail contest which, some say, was held during the Prohibition era. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to make this simple drink that is perfect for dessert!

How to make the Grasshopper cocktail

This cocktail was named after the Algonquin Hotel in New York, home to famous literary lunches known as the Algonquin Round Table. Though there were in fact several drinks named after this historic venue, cocktail historian Robert Hess shows us the recipe that is currently served by the hotels bartenders.

How to make the Algonquin cocktail

This cocktail is named for a member of the Guion family, which founded one of the primary steamship lines providing transportation from London to New York from 1866 to 1892. Cocktail expert Robert Hess shows you how to make this interesting variation on the classic martini!

How to make the Guion cocktail

The original recipe for this drink called for equal parts of all four ingredients. Such a drink would be far too unbalanced, so cocktail historian Robert Hess shows us a recipe that's more of a modified dry martini, with absinthe and violette being supporting actors instead of co-stars.

How to make the Attention Cocktail

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Jun 13, 2014

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