Mixology Monday XLVI – Absinthe

Marshall | February 23, 2010

Ahhhh . . . Mixology Monday XLVI.  I’ve never been good at roman numerals, so I’m not even going to guess what that translates to in normal non-roman number type things.  Regardless, it’s that time again and this month we are being hosted by Sonja at Thinking of Drinking.  Sonja’s chosen theme is absinthe and [...]

MxMo XLIII: Vermouth

Marshall | October 25, 2009

This month Mixology Monday is being hosted by Vidiot over at Cocktailians and the chosen theme is vermouth.   Our instructions, So: your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to present a delectable vermouth cocktail for us all to drool over. Sweet/Italian or dry/French vermouth are fair game of course, as are quinquina, aperitif [...]

Leopold Spirits

SeanMike | September 9, 2009

Hi guys!  Remember me? It’s been a while.  We hit Tales of the Cocktail back in July – and not long after I got back from that I found out that my job was sending me out of the country.  It was the first time for me doing so, which also meant I got to [...]

Be careful with this one

SeanMike | June 21, 2009

I’ve had a heck of a run of luck on this drink.  Named after the awesome Rachel Sergi of Zaytinya, I have managed to make a mess each time I made one.  First try – spilled the first one completely.  Second try (for Rachel, actually) – broke a bottle of simple syrup on the floor.  [...]

Cognac – and a new drink (variation)

SeanMike | June 10, 2009

Day three of the series leads me to do two things – come up with a drink with none other than our own iStevi, hostess of “Two at the Most”, a fellow LiveJournal refugee who found her way out onto a hosted site, but also to write up my article that I promised to the [...]