Wayne Curtis

1 week ago | gardenandgun.com | Wayne Curtis |Matt Tanner

Summer is long drink season—the sultry weather leads to cravings for tall, cooling beverages. And so highballs appear, and classic winter drinks like the Negroni find themselves altered and lengthened to become the thirst-quenching Americano. Get Our Bourbon NewsletterSummer is also frosted mug season. Just looking at a thick glass mug fogged with rime right out of the freezer can cool you off, especially when it’s filled with a bracing beer.

1 month ago | gardenandgun.com | Wayne Curtis

Name a state in the South that lacks a city, town, or county honoring Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette. I’ll wait. The atlas says Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Texas, and Florida all have places named Lafayette (or in some cases LaFayette). In Alabama, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Arkansas you’ll find Fayettes or Fayettevilles.

1 month ago | imbibemagazine.com | Wayne Curtis

Let us say a few words about the Duck Fart. I promise they will be mercifully few. Lore decrees that this drink was invented in 1987 at the Peanut Farm bar in Anchorage, Alaska, by a bartender named Dave Schmidt. It consists of Kahlúa, Bailey’s, and Crown Royal, layered like the flag of an unknown yet undoubtedly undesirable country. No one seems to remember why it was called that, but the cocktail became popular enough that it was soon considered Alaska’s state drink.

1 month ago | imbibemagazine.com | Wayne Curtis

Yield: 152 lb. powdered sugar1 (750ml) bottle of white wine1 (750ml) bottle of rum10 egg whites10 lemons2 sweet orangesTools: sieve, barspoon, whisk, bowlGlass: punchbowl and punch cups Combine the juice of the lemons and oranges with the powdered sugar in a bowl until the sugar is dissolved, and add a thin rind of orange. Stir and run the mixture through a sieve into another bowl. Slowly add the egg whites and beat it to a froth. Put the bowl in the freezer, allowing the mixture to freeze a bit.

2 months ago | gardenandgun.com | Wayne Curtis

Start with these stellar ingredients that hail from or speak to the South, and along with some basic pantry items (tomato juice, cream, limes, mint, simple syrup, vermouth), you can craft juleps, old-fashioneds, milk punches, Sazeracs, Kentucky mules, Bloody Marys, and dozens of other drinks in a snap. From far left:Jack Rudy Cocktail Co. Tonic SyrupStir this quinine concentrate into club soda and you’ll have a layered tonic ready for gin, ice, and a porch.