Helmut Mystic Mango Punch

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.

Dave Arnold says a truly good gin and tonic is impossible with traditional methods, but a careful one is possible: frozen gin and glass, fresh ice-cold tonic, a fixed order of pouring, and the lime last. He also gives the force-carbonated version.

A stirred drink is pure chilling and dilution, and consistency is the whole game. Dave Arnold covers the right ice, why metal beats glass, when to serve up or on the rocks and why colder is not always better.