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Dec 11, 2021Liked by Peter Suderman

Estate sales are a good place to find inexpensive glassware, particularly coupe glasses

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Yep. You can also find a lot of interesting older glassware on Etsy, although the good stuff is less common these days.

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Dec 10, 2021Liked by Peter Suderman

+1 to the Koriko shaker from Cocktail Kingdom—definitely upped my game

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Yeah, I resisted paying the shipping on this for a while, but eventually gave in and bought one. It’s good.

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The fact that I have pretty much everything on this list means it must be pretty good. One addition, one piece of advice, and one pedantic correction:

- Vintage Rival electrical ice crushers can be had for a reasonable price on eBay. Unless you have some frustrations to take out, they're preferable to a Lewis bag for anything more than a drink's worth of crushed ice.

- If you're going to use a pint glass as the top of your shaker, make sure you're buying the tempered kind.

- Mostly what a metal mixing tin will change is a cocktail's dilution, since it doesn't take as much energy to cool down a metal tin as a mixing glass. (This will make the drink a little colder, since less dilution means higher ABV means lower equilibrium temperature.) You can accomplish pretty much the same thing by pre-chilling your mixing glass.

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