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So effing awesome!!! Want!
Cupa-Rocks Tumblers
We’re kind of purists when it comes to the liquor we imbibe. Adding water to a quality whiskey is as close to sacrilege as you can get in our minds (for the record, water backs are fine). When someone told us that adding oxygen opened up the flavor like it does with wine we thought they were pulling our legs…until we realized that we’d been doing it all along by swirling. This two pack of lead-free, crystal Cupa-Rocks Tumblers takes all the effort out of oxygenating your booze with the assistance of the top-like shape that makes it swirl on its own. $50
Need this for my Dad!!!
Roller Rock Glass
There are many whiskey drinkers out there who would welcome the invention of some sort of whiskey glass lid to keep out all impurities—ice included. Us, we happen to like a couple of fingers chilled. The thing both sides can agree on is ice from your fridge dispenser has no place making a splash landing in some Jack. If you happen to like your drink on the rocks but hate the fact that you end up diluting whatever you’re imbibing, invest in this Roller Rock Glass. Just freeze up a 2″ ice ball with the included mold and drop that sucker in the glass. The glass is designed to let the ice roll across the bottom and open up all the aromatics your drink has stored away while it chills without diluting. Plus, swirling it at a cocktail party while pondering some deep thoughts will surely attract some ladies. $22
OMG…these glasses are gorgeous. I need some! I edited Cool Material’s editorial below to also include girls who like a spirit in a whiskey glass! Heehee!
Rikke Hagen Whiskey Glasses
If you’re still consuming whiskey out of red Solo cups, it’s time to grow up. As men (and women), we are blessed with a few drinks that are both elegant and delicious, and while those cups might not do much about the taste, they sure as hell aren’t helping the elegance part. For a distinctively grown up way to consume some Johnny Walker Blue Label, we’re digging the sophistication of these Rikke Hagen glasses from Normann Copenhagen. The curve at the bottom of the glass is designed so you can hold and swirl your drink like The Most Interesting Man or Woman in the World (you know, when she’s not drinking Dos Equis). $61
I’m so bummed this place is in Glendale. I want one in Santa Monica so I can go visit and drink unique spirits!! I mean, how gorgeous is that glass of whatever that is? Lovely. Neat A friend recently shared her favorite “cocktail” recipe with us: Open a bottle of good whiskey and pour a few fingers into a glass. Drink. It’s a dead-simple prescription that’s arguably the only way to drink finer spirits. Aidan Demarest, who has left a trail of exceptional cocktails behind him at various Southland bars, has taken this purist’s approach as his own at Neat, which opened earlier this month in Glendale. Housed in a minimally rehabbed dive, Neat is no showy affair; there isn’t even a drink list. You order by the liquor, and the chosen spirit is served with a chaser, the pair of glasses tidily resting in round recesses on a small wooden tray. Bundaberg ginger beer complemented the glass of caramelized-orange-tasting Elijah Craig 12 we partook in (pictured; $12), while the Curious Cola-backed pour of Ron Zacapa XO ($35) was a sublime recollection of our long-past rum-and-coke days. The Zacapa is one of a handful of bottles at Neat culled from Demarest’s personal spirits collection. The unmarked cut-crystal decanter glinting at you from the top shelf? That’s Demarest’s stash of Macallan 30 ($50), a Scotch with a finish as long as the booze is old. Neat, 1114 N. Pacific Ave., Glendale; 818-241-4542 or theneatbar.com