Some art is created in a painter’s studio, some is created in a bartender’s cocktail mixer. For the latter half of the great minds out there, there are tools equally as essential as the brush, chisel, and pencil.
For some advice on what to stock at the bar (besides the booze) we went to an expert who quite literally wrote the book on bar essentials: Jennifer Fiedler. The author of The Essential Bar Book: An A-to-Z Guide to Spirits, Cocktails, and Wine shared her thoughts on the tools of the trade for the amateur mixologist.
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If your idea of the holiday spirit comes in liquid form, we’ve teamed with Huckberry, one of our favorite online shops, to curate the items we’ll be giving to the gentleman drinker in our bars and our hearts. For the guy somewhere between chemistry nerd and Don Draper, here are some of the best gifts available.
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