Home Cocktail Trend Still Strong, and I’m Part of the Problem
Despite being part of that shift, I’m still a little bothered as a former restaurant industry employee. It’s tough to know distant peers are struggling due to a shift in the new habits adopted by me and millions of other drinkers.
As awful as the Coronavirus pandemic was, it’s hard not to love some of the lifestyle changes it created. One I’m helping continue is making and drinking cocktails at home.
My wife and I always made cocktails for each other and our guests, but we, like so many cooped up in 2020, knuckled down to master drinks that required more care and effort than our favored classic three-ingredient concoctions. We spent money on amendments such as amari, bitters and liqueurs and made drinks for friends that, in a few cases, nudged them to up their home cocktail game. Liquor.com became a treasured resource back then.