The Widow’s Kiss
I have to confess that I found this one looking for something with Calvados in it. In looking at it, it had pretty much everything I love. It’s old. It’s chock-full of screwball booze. Also, it turns...
View ArticleEmerald
As college towns go, it’s been my contention that we have long suffered a dearth of suitable drinking establishments. Well, a couple of weeks ago that situation markedly improved with our new Irish...
View ArticleFestive and Fizzy
B informed me she wanted some thing festive and fizzy this afternoon. After a bit of mouth-agape monkey-trying-to-solve-a-Rubik’s-cube thinking, she reminded me that she had found a recipe for a drink...
View ArticleNegroni
Last Friday, the lab decided it needed a “spontaneous act of happy hour” at Briana’s house. She had the comestible well in hand, which left the libation in our hands. Knowing gin was a popular...
View ArticleFamous Riffs
I think for the next couple of weeks, we’ll take a bit of a departure from our usual aesthetic and relive a couple our more whimsical holiday jocularities. After that, I promise, we’ll get serious-for...
View ArticleYou’ll shoot your eye out, kid
As promised, this is going to be my second (and final for a while) post of festive, holiday cocktails. Last time we did Dale Degroff’s Royal Gingersnap. This time we are going to do one from the...
View ArticleThe Old-Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail
Our hiatus into frivolous drinking over, it’s now time to turn our attention to some more serious entrez in to the world of cocktails. With this post, we take on what David Wondrich describes as on of...
View ArticleDiabolo
B was looking through Robert Hess’s The Essential Bartender’s Guide the other night for something new when she ran across a rather oddly named cocktail, the Diabolo. No, not Diablo, Diabolo....
View ArticleSangria
Owing to a concatenation of circumstances, I now realize that I haven’t had a new post in far too long. Those same circumstances are now compelling me to make the first post ever without a post–ironic...
View ArticleBoulevardier
It’s yet again been a little while since the last blog post. In this case, there is a better reason than usual; B & I bought a house and moved. After a frenetic few weeks, we are again feeling...
View ArticleAperoni
B forwarded me a post from Michael Rhuhulman’s blog about a Berkshire Martinez from last April, which was his take on the classic Martinez cocktail. Apparently this post was inspired by a robust (such...
View ArticleEl Presidente
B & I decided to give this cocktail a second look. We had originally tried the El Presidente a number of years ago based on David Wondrich’s recipe in his book Esquire Drinks. It was decidedly...
View ArticleThe Manhattan–Grandaddy of them all…
I now realize that it’s been almost four months since I last posted. Apparently I have been doing more drinking that writing. Well, since I’d rather avoid doing less drinking, I better do more...
View ArticleDerby Day
As yesterday was the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby, it seemed an auspicious time to revive the blog after an eleven moth hiatus, and what else could one comment on that the venerable Mint Julep....
View ArticleA margarita by any other name
As anyone who’s made my acquaintance will know, I love tequila. Not that mixto crap that frat boys pour down coeds throats, but the good stuff. The 100% agave azul stuff. Sipped neat, without the...
View ArticleThe Blue Moon Cocktail
I ran across this cocktail back in the September, 2009 issue of Imbibe and decided I really should give it a try. When you have a bottle of crème yvette or a bottle of crème de violette, you don’t...
View ArticleMai Tai Madness
Well July has been a rather busy one at work. I know, loyal reader (yah, there probably is only one of you) is shocked to find that M is actually feigning employment. The downside of this...
View ArticleHigh Noon
My father-in-law, one of the pioneers out Riding the Beer Trail in Oskosh, has a pretty hard and fast rule that a cocktail can’t have more than three ingredients. A bit Spartan, but I catch his point....
View ArticleThe Graduate
A bit of a short post in the continuing tribute to Imbibe Magazine’s quartet of “Simple Cocktails”. Unlike the High Noon that cleverly paired several ingrediets that go very well together (tequila and...
View ArticleA bitter edge
The lineup. This weeks post is a bit of a departure from the usual cocktail recipe and discussion. Instead I want to discuss something essential to so many great cocktails, which would not be terribly...
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