There may come a point during this season of booze-filled gatherings when “you are the one doing the pouring,” said Steven Stern in The New York Times. It could be at an office holiday party or during the New Year’s countdown. So we set out to find potions “designed to impress and to comfort.” This 19th-century punch unearthed by the “cocktail scholar” David Wondrich is simple, “highly potent,” and goes down easy. “The someone who serves it will earn a year’s worth of gratitude.”
Original Chatham Artillery Punch
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