Bloody Mary Version 1

Metal tins against glass, Boston against cobbler, julep against hawthorn: Dave Arnold says what he uses and why, from thermal mass to the gate on a hawthorn strainer and the knack of stirring with a bar spoon.

A built drink is made in the glass over one big cube and is designed to change slowly as it waters down. Dave Arnold walks through his Cliff Old-Fashioned and the rules that keep a built drink balanced.

A blender is the most efficient chiller a bar has, and it overdilutes a normal recipe. Dave Arnold shows how to rebalance a drink for the blender, how a hand ice shaver does the same job quietly, and a generic blender sour.