Barware
Does what you drink your beverage from matter? After more than a decade of tasting, we can categorically tell you that your barware or glassware is a key component of any drinking experience. In this section we review glasses, decanters, dispensing equipment, aerators, and even bar knives.
Top Barware Posts:
Does Glass Shape Affect the Way a Whiskey Tastes?
Hopsy Home Draft Beer System
Experimenting with Beyond Barrels Bottle Aging Staves
Coravin Model One Wine Preservation System
When the weather is right, there’s nothing quite like a frozen cocktail. In fact, even if the weather is not so good, I’m never really against a frozé or a frozen margarita. Making frozen drinks is always a labor of love that involves lots of ice and a blender and crossed fingers that everything works…
Crafting the perfect cocktail is both an art and a science, a delicate dance between flavors, aromas, and presentation. Just as a painter relies on a fine brush and vibrant palette, a mixologist needs the right tools to transform ordinary ingredients into extraordinary libations. Quality cocktail tools are essential. From precision jiggers that measure with…
How’s this for an idea: A wine chiller… to go! Packit is a simple yet effective idea, a single-bottle wine chiller that encases the wine completely in a padded bag, including a shoulder strap and a small pouch for your corkscrew (and, perhaps, some straws). The vinyl pack zips up to completely encase the wine,…
Ice is a relatively modern creation that most take for granted today. To many, it almost seems unfathomable to not be able to enjoy a soda or alcoholic beverage chilled with ice. Early access to ice was once achieved through the laborious practice of harvesting from the surface of frozen lakes in the dead of…
There are lots of ways to preserve a half-consumed bottle of wine, but one of the most reliable is to use argon gas, which is heavier than air and provides an invisible blanket of protection between the wine in a bottle and the oxygen above it. Fresh-Port is a minor twist on this theme, a…
High Camp keeps cranking out the fancy flasks, and as long as they do, we’ll keep on covering them. The new Firelight Flask is similar to the last High Camp flask we reviewed, the Parkside Flask. Both hold 750ml of liquid and include two tumblers that adhere magnetically to the top and bottom of the…
Judging from the number of glass cloches I see on the backs of bars these days, smoked cocktails are still a thing, and consumers now have plenty of options for making these unique libations at home. New to the scene is Bark & Barware, a kit that includes a gunlike torch, smoking vessel that sits…
I’ve lost count of how many times we’ve reviewed High Camp‘s luxe flasks, but I don’t see much reason to stop, seeing as it keeps cranking out new products. The Parkside Flask is a big one — 750ml in size — which might clue you in to its intended purpose: Filling it up with wine.…
Today we road-test the latest rendition of stemless plastic reusable wine “glasses” from Govino. They’ve been around since 2008, so it’s likely that many in the wine community are already familiar with their line of stemless plastic drinking vessels. Per their website, these apparently are the “best Govino ever” glasses, and are shatterproof, BPA-free, and…
Yeti continues to expand into the backyard bar space with its newest product, the Rambler Cocktail Shaker. Earlier this year, we test drove the Rambler Beverage Bucket, a straightforward yet impressively capable mini cooler of sorts, but moving into the cocktail gear space feels like a new frontier for the brand. How does Yeti’s trademark…