Expert techniques, recipes, and insights from the makers of the SmokeTop® cocktail smoker. Bartender-designed methods, wood pairing, and the technique behind every drink.
Cocktail smoking chips last a long time in the bag and one drink in the smoker. How much to use, how to store them, and when to replace them.
Yes, if you make cocktails at home a few times a month, especially whiskey drinks. What a cocktail smoker really costs to buy and run, who should skip one, and how top-of-glass smokers, smoking guns, boxes and boards compare.
If your smoked cocktail tastes like butane or lighter fluid, the fix is simple. Learn the four causes and how to eliminate fuel taste from your drinks.
Engraved bourbon gifts compared, ideas that fit in 10 characters, and how engraving works on the SmokeTop cocktail smoker.
How to choose a corporate gift for whiskey lovers, how the options compare, and how engraved SmokeTop orders work: no minimums, logo engraving, Net 30.
Six cocktail smoking mistakes that ruin a good drink, from too much smoke to damp chips and soda added too early, with a practical fix for each one.
The classic brandy old fashioned: ratios, brandy and Cognac selection, how it differs from the Wisconsin version, and a smoked variation with cherry or apple wood.
Torch-lit top-of-glass smoker or push-button electric unit? How each one works, where the flame-free pitch is legitimate, and where it costs you the aroma you bought a smoker for.
A working bartender's list of whiskey gifts for men, sorted by how they drink and what you want to spend. Skips the whiskey stones and novelty glasses.
What separates a whiskey smoker kit you will use from one that collects dust: build material, airflow design, wood chip variety, screens, and what to spend.
Bartenders are calling exaggerated smoke a gimmick, and in a lot of bars they are right. Here is the aroma-first standard and five tests that separate theater from technique.
How to check a Made in USA claim, American-made whiskey gift ideas, and the SmokeTop cocktail smoker, made in the USA from American cherry wood.
