The Russell Cocktail
This is a CocktailswithM first—a cocktail of our own creation. Normally we stay away from this because 1) in more than a century of mixing a limited number of ingredients together, it’s probably...
View ArticleBrains… Must have brains…
Even here in this happy oasis of a cocktail blog, one cannot completely escape the inexorable march of time. So, hopefully one of these will ease your forgiving this belated homage to All Hallows’ Eve....
View ArticleThe Income Tax Cocktail
The tax man cometh here at CocktailswithM. And by way of balm to solace our ragged nerves, we have today’s post. After a bit of digging in to the back story on the Income Tax cocktail, I have to...
View ArticleIntro to Aperol
B & I were looking through the liquor cabinet in search of inspiration this Sunday and came across our bottle of Aperol. A quick perusal of our blog revealed an omission of a really great cocktail...
View ArticlePegu Club
The last post on the blog, Intro to Aperol, by Audrey Saunders at Pegu Club, got me thinking about the name sake of that establishment: the orginal Pegu Club, in Burma. The 1930 edition of Harry...
View ArticleWhoa, Nellie!
As even the occasional reader of this blog can attest, we generally are a bit circumspect when it comes to newly minted cocktails. When we were reading Ti Adelaide Martin and Lally Brennan’s book, I...
View ArticleDjango Reinhardt
It has been a bit hot here lately. And by a bit, I mean “cook you brain/even the cactus looks PO’d hot”. So when B & I were thinking about what to drink, it had to be something on the lighter...
View ArticleChampagne Whiskey Punch
Summer is the season for festive and refreshing (if slightly frivolous) imbibing with great friends. I originally made this frivolously festive tipple a couple years back for the adherents of the...
View ArticleThe Liberal
Devotees of the blog will doubtless know the esteem in which I hold the Manhattan, which is why we rather assiduously avoid frivolous knockoffs. Devotees, however, will also know my predilection for...
View ArticleCaipirinha
Labor Day has decide to turn up the heat here and I decided something need to be done (and hopefully in a way that would result in a post). I to thinking about who does heat and holidays better than...
View Article2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2015. If it...
View ArticleSatan’s Whiskers
With the start of the new year, it’s time to resume blogging. Last year was not an epic year for the blog, though we had some good moments. To kick the new year off, I decided (B actually told me) to...
View ArticleMoving to MolecularDrinking.com
After nine years (yah, I actually had to go back and check—hard to believe) we’ve decided to give the blog a name change and give it a new URL. The new site is MolecularDrinking.com. All nine years of...
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