Highlight Reel: April

Memorial Day and the unofficial start to summer are only four weeks away! Use the time to catch up on any of our recent articles that you may have missed. Here are five of the best cocktails-and-spirits features from the past month. Cheers!

Raising the Bar: John Lermayer:

Meet the talented Miami bartender who helped establish the city’s mixology scene and just opened The Regent Cocktail Club in South Beach.

The Five Biggest Tequila Myths:

With the assistance of agave-spirits expert and Liquor.com advisory board member Jacques Bezuidenhout, we clear up some common misconceptions about the Mexican liquor.

One for the Road: Tiki Palace:

While tropical bars are all the rage now, their heyday was really in the ‘50s and ‘60s. Visit a few of the surviving originals, which are still as kitschy as ever—and make a mean rum cocktail.

Ingredient Hunter: Duty-Free Spirits:

Taking an international spring break? Here are the bottles you can’t find in the US that you should buy at duty-free.

Behind the Bar: Mad Men:

Just in time for the return of Mad Men, master mixologist and Liquor.com advisory board member Dale DeGroff shares what it was actually like to drink with advertising men in the 1970s.

(Photo courtesy Frank Ockenfels/AMC)