The Best Cocktail Weather

Marshall | October 18, 2011

Ahhhhh . . . There’s a nip in the air and the leaves are starting to change color and drop to the ground. The night descends earlier (or is it faster) and the grip of winter is just around the corner. It isn’t a secret that autumn is my favorite season. I love the cold [...]

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 [...]

Reading & Drinking

SeanMike | November 14, 2009

First off – happy belated two year anniversary to us!  I admit we maybe haven’t been blogging perhaps as much as we should be, and I’m trying to get off my tookus and do more.  Tales of the Cocktail and that trip to Korea broke my rhythm!  But the good news is that I’m finally [...]

Mixology Monday – Made From Scratch

Marshall | November 9, 2008

It’s another Mixology Monday and this month we are hosted by that Pegu drinking wild man Doug over at The Pegu Blog.  Doug’s chosen theme is “Made From Scratch” wherein he instructs “mix up a drink which is produced with one or more ingredients that you make yourself, be it bitters, infused liquors, liqueurs, syrups, [...]

Mixology Monday: 19th Century Cocktails

SeanMike | September 15, 2008

When I first heard the theme of this month’s MxMo I was a bit worried. I didn’t know what I’d want to do – something classic, like the Manhattan or Sazerac, or maybe try to convert something out of the Harry Johnson’s bar guide that Marshall got me for my birthday? What the heck is [...]