The way Dave Newman and Pint + Jigger decide on their drink menu is “a little crazy.”
Take a simple cocktail like a negroni: three equal parts gin, Campari and sweet vermouth.
“But we don’t think that that’s the best possible iteration of that drink,” Newman said. “So we will grab six different gins, five different sweet Vermouths. We will make that drink over and over again with those different combinations, and then we will start changing proportions.”…