It's all about
the glass.
Seasonal cocktails and mocktails, recipe books to keep them in, and one private pour each month.
Morning Shift Mimosa
A bright tropical mimosa with citrus, pineapple, and crisp sparkling prosecco.
- 01Fresh orange juice
- 02Pineapple juice
- 03Chilled prosecco
Method, proportions, and the mocktail version, in the full recipe.
A new cocktail and mocktail every fifteen days. While this one is featured, we will email you the full recipe, both versions, free.
Your drink isn’t the problem. It’s the glass.
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The Coupe
Spreads the aroma wide. Best for short, stirred drinks meant to be sipped slowly.
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The Martini
Narrow at the base, open at the top: concentrates the perfume, keeps the drink cold.
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The Rocks
Heavy in the hand. Holds a large cube of ice that melts slowly, never dilutes too fast.
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The Highball
Tall and thin. Paces the drinker, lets the bubbles travel the full length of the pour.
The glass is not the package; it is part of the recipe. The width of the rim, the curve of the bowl, the weight in the hand: each changes the way a drink reaches the nose, the tongue, the moment.
“The right glass doesn’t just hold the drink, it enhances it.”
Waterline
A bright watermelon citrus cooler finished with crisp soda and fresh lime.
- 01Vodka
- 02Watermelon juice
- 03Lime juice
- 04Soda water
- 05Ice
Monthly archive recipe. Full cocktail and mocktail instructions are free on the card. A new archive recipe appears each month.
Waterline
Ingredients- 2 oz
- Vodka
- 2 oz
- Watermelon juice
- 1/2 oz
- Lime juice
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- Soda water
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- Ice
- 01Fill glass with ice.
- 02Add vodka, watermelon juice, and lime juice.
- 03Top with soda water.
- 04Stir gently.
- 05Garnish with watermelon wedge or lime wheel.
A garnish is not
a decoration.
It is the loudest small thing in the glass. A garnish extrapolates the flavors already there, pulls them up and forward, gives the drink its top note. Skip it and you are pouring with half the recipe.
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Citrus peel.
The oils on the skin of a lemon or an orange, expressed over the surface of the drink, change the first sip from the nose down. A garnish you smell before you taste.
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Herb sprigs.
Basil, mint, rosemary. Slap the sprig once on the back of your hand. The bruise releases the oil. Tuck it close to the rim so the drinker breathes it in.
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Salt & sugar.
A rim primes the palate. Salt brightens citrus, blunts bitterness. Sugar softens edges. Half a rim, never the whole, so the drinker has a choice.
Pours you can keep in your pocket.
Gathered into small digital books. They open on your phone at the bar cart, print at home if you want them to, and make a quiet, easy gift. No shipping, no shelf space, yours the minute you buy. Two ways in: the foundational collection, or a single book for the one spirit you actually pour.
The Original Fifteen.
The fifteen cocktails that started everything. The ones we kept coming back to, drawn from rum, whiskey, gin, tequila, and vodka. They were our late-night project for months: our favorite to make, our favorite to drink, and the reason this whole company exists. Now they are yours to pour.
Or stick to your spirit.
People like what they like, and we get not buying a whole shelf of recipes when you only pour one thing. Each book is a single spirit, start to finish, $4.99 once. Prefer zero proof? There's a whole book of house mocktails too.
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Bright, botanical, and built for citrus and fresh herbs.
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Agave-forward and bright, easy to pour in the heat.
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Warm and a little sweet, made for slow evenings.
$4.99 Get the book -
Deep and spiced, best when the day winds down.
$4.99 Get the book -
Clean, clear, and happy to play any role.
$4.99 Get the book -
Alcohol free. Bright, balanced, and fun.
$4.99 Get the book
Here once, then gone.
Once a month, one new drink in both forms, a cocktail and its mocktail twin, sent straight to your inbox. Never posted on the site, never printed in a book. Poured once for members, then gone for good.
$0.99 a month, cancel anytime. One cocktail and one mocktail, by email, the day you join and the first of every month after.
A few good things,
made slowly.
A small line of well-made things for the host, the home cook, and the weekend renovator, drawn from both sides of what we do.
Please sip slowly, pour for those over 21, and never drive after a cocktail. A pour is meant to mark a moment, not blur one.