Have you been spending a lot more time at home lately?Funny, us, too! That’s why, in this issue of The Alchemist, we look at ways to shake things up in our home bars. Charlene Rooke rounds up the tools you need—which also happen to make great holiday gifts—and talks to cocktail legend Camper English, founder of cocktailsafe.org, about the dangerous things you really shouldn’t be doing at home or anywhere. We offer the five essential classic cocktail recipes everyone should know and a guide to cocktail kits in Vancouver. Our Tasting Panel shares the bottles they stock
at home. And we introduce our new Home Bar columnist, Matthew Benevoli, who shows us how to make homemade vermouth.
But we still want to get out and have some fun sometimes, so Gail Johnson gives us a tour of some of the new(ish) Vancouver restaurants serving Italian cocktails and Michael White checks in with the Whiskey Muse, Reece Sims. Plus we check out all the latest spirited news from here and around the world.
