Posts by Bruce Glassman, Co-Founder at Downtime Cocktails

Here’s our second installment covering lesser-known, rare spirits and ingredients you might want to get acquainted with. Some of them are best sipped on their own, but most of them will add a unique and interesting flavor to a mixed cocktail. Regardless of your creative intentions, we recommend sipping each one straight before considering how…

We go to a lot of bars and we read a lot of cocktail menus. Despite our breadth of cocktail knowledge, we still often come upon creations with ingredients that are completely unfamiliar to us. If this happens to us, we assume it also happens to you. So, we wanted to dedicate a few articles…

The longest bar in the world can be found at a sprawling cocktail establishment called Humble Baron, located within Tennessee’s Nearest Green Distillery. And it turns out that the bar also has a long and interesting history behind it. The record-setting bar is by far the most popular feature at the Nearest Green Distillery, which…

El Floridita, Havana There are only a few bars in the world that can rightfully claim to be the birthplace of a global cocktail phenomenon, and El Floridita in Havana, Cuba, is one of them. Not only has the bar been host to dozens of the world’s most notable writers, celebrities, and politicians, it’s also…

During the third week in September, Campari and Imbibe Magazine joined forces to celebrate one of the world’s most popular cocktails and to support Slow Food, which works to create a more sustainable and equitable environment in the food and beverage industry. Bars and restaurants around the globe celebrated the Negroni by highlighting its supreme…

Death & Co. “The mad geniuses behind Death & Co have elevated cocktail creation to punk-rock artistry.” — Aisha Tyler, critic So far, in our ongoing dive into the World’s Best Bars, we’ve covered two classic European institutions that set worldwide standards for style at the turn of the twentieth century (Harry’s New York Bar…

American Bar at The Savoy Hotel The now-iconic Savoy Hotel in London was a glittering showpiece from the moment it opened its doors in 1889. The genius behind the hotel was theatrical impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte, who brought his unique flair for the theater to the ambience and service at the Savoy. An essential part…

Harry’s New York Bar What do you feel like drinking tonight? How about a Monkey Gland? The Monkey Gland is just one of dozens of iconic cocktails created by the legendary barman Harry MacElhone at Harry’s New York Bar in Paris (you can find the recipe at the end of this article). Few bars rise…

In culinary school, many classical curricula teach students to become fluent in preparing what are called the “Mother Sauces.” In French cuisine, these are the five sauces that can pretty much be used as the foundation for any sauce you may want to create in the kitchen. (For reference, the five Mother Sauces are Bechamel,…

It’s probably safe to say that it takes something of an outsized personality to create one of the largest empires in the history of the world. Macedonian King Alexander was just such a person. By the time he died at age 32 in 323 B.C.E., ATG had built an empire that stretched from Greece to…