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The Porto Flip is luxurious, satiny and sweet due to the addition of cream and egg to tawny port and brandy.

Keep warm this winter with this recipe for Spiced Hot Buttered Rum. It’s just one of many warm cocktail recipes available from Binny’s Home Bartender.

Relive the Roaring Twenties in the City of Lights with Paris Between the Wars, a scotch-based cocktail with fresh lemon juice and the bitter bite of Campari.

What are you drinking for Thanksgiving? We’ve got recommendations for spirits before, during and after dinner, beers that pair with a wide range of dishes and wines to pair with specific types of guests at your dinner table.

Take Binny’s Home Bartender’s advice – winter is coming, make some glogg. It’s a Swedish recipe for warm mulled wine with port, brandy, red wine, fruit and nuts.

Binny’s Home Bartender has holiday magic in a glass – The Sorel of the Story is a recipe for a perfect Thanksgiving cocktail.

Fall into Fall with the Side Slice, a riff on the classic Sidecar with apple brandy and apple liqueur.

Our resident Mixologist put together an original Champagne punch, fit for a New Year’s Eve. Punch, in some form, has been around for centuries. Punch’s long history has allowed for endless variations to arise, making it a diverse and many splendored thing that can be alcoholic or not, hot or cold, simple or complex, but no matter the iteration it must always be festive.

Binny's Home Bartender brings you the best wassail recipe. Our version of this ancient drink features, hard cider, English ale, Madeira and roasted apples combined with exotic spices and even eggs if you choose.

A holiday bonus from our resident mixologist: two cocktail recipes this week. The Saratoga is a pre-Prohibition classic that's a cross between the Manhattan and the Metropolitan. The Laird's A-Leaping is a riff that uses Laird's Apple Brandy.