The New Highball
September, 2012
? The highball is one category of cocktail you don't need a dog-eared copy of Jerry Thomas's 1862 Bartenders Guide to master. Essentially booze and a mixer over ice in a tall glass, it doesn't get much easier. (If you've made a rum and Coke, you can make any highball.) Better bartenders across the country are taking the highball higher, with excellent booze and just a bit more thought. We turned to Jason Kosmas, co-founder of New York's mixologi-cal mecca Employees Only, author of Speakeasy an...
