Mixology Monday LVI: Your *Best*?!

SeanMike | April 11, 2011

“Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.” “Carla was the prom queen.” “Really?” (chambers a round in his gun) “Yeah.” Sorry. I love that movie (The Rock, if you have to ask). We used to watch it twice a night in college – once on a copy with [...]

Mixology Monday LIV: see you on the flipside

SeanMike | January 17, 2011

And it’s that time again – Mixology Monday! This time it’s hosted by Josh over at Cocktail Assembly and he chose the theme of “flips”. He said: You see, I figure this would be a great time to strategically use all this combined creative and crafty brainpower to build up a list of recipes to [...]

Mixology Monday: The Avenue

SeanMike | November 22, 2010

Well, it’s been a while, but it was time for Mixology Monday again!  This time it’s being hosted at Rock & Rye by Dennis.  Thanks, Dennis! The theme is “Forgotten Cocktails”.  Given the resurgence in cocktail culture, and my relative lack of scholarship done “on my own”, I did what I figure most folks would [...]

Mixology Monday: Brown, Bitter, and Stirred

SeanMike | September 1, 2010

It’s BUH-now, not buh-NULL.  Just so you know. When I heard the theme I had a great idea, because, well, everyone knows Bonal and rye go together so well, but man – stirred?  Feh. My first attempt was a Negroni variant.  Equal parts rye instead of gin, Bonal instead of sweet vermouth, Gran Classico instead [...]

Mixology Monday XLVII: Punch

SeanMike | March 22, 2010

Coming from the blog “Hobson’s Choice”, which has a really cool story for its name, we’ve got a theme this month for Mixology Monday of “punch”.  Over there, Mike quoted David Wondrich as he opined on what made a punch, starting from a definition in the 1700s or so. I’m not going back that far. [...]