Cocktail Blogs
- How To: Blend it Right
With summer officially here, blended drinks - also known as frozen drinks - are just the thing to cool you off on a hot summer afternoon. But the trick with blended drinks is that you have to get the balance of ice and liquid ingredients just right. Too much liquid ingredients and you get [...] - Review: Webtender Website
The Webtender, which you can find at www.webtender.com has been online for 12 years now, going all the way back to 1995. It's a huge database, featuring over 6000 cocktail recipes from nearly 4000 contributors!
On the positive side there are a lot of recipes to choose from and you can search or browse in many [...] - Terminology: Dash, Splash & Float
Mixology has its own language which can be confusing if you're reading a recipe and it wants you to float a splash of this or add a dash of that. So here's the skinny on these bartending terms.
Dash: This is the tiniest common recipe measurement. It's generally considered to be equivalent to 1/32 oz. However [...] - Review: Desert Island Long Island Ice Tea Mix
I've had more bad Long Island Ice Teas than I've had good ones. And that's somewhat understandable. The Long Island Ice Tea is a very challenging cocktail to mix correctly. With 5 different liquors (rum, vodka, gin, tequila and triple sec) and a host of different manufacturers for each liquor there's 9,757,237,539 different combinations of [...] - What The Heck Is A Jigger & Pony?
Jigger & Pony: Maybe it's the name of the pub you were at last night but got too drunk to remember - but more than likely it's something of an old fashioned measuring device that looks like 2 different sized metal shot glasses with the bottoms sauldered together.
Jigger and Ponys are used to measure ingredients [...]
- Run Fox Run!
This is a delightful cocktail that I made this fall to celebrate the 100th year of the Chagrin Valley Hunt. Spiced rum, apple cider and several other mischievous delights are blended to create a devilishly deceptive drink that can be served warm or cold! - The New York City Food & Wine Festival
This weekend I had the total pleasure of attending the 1st ever, Food Network Food & Wine Festival in New York City! Wonderful cocktails were everywhere! - Sake and Pear Juice Cocktail
Sake cocktails are becoming all of the rage in many of the Japanese restaurants and sushi bars that I frequent. Light and floral, sake is a wonderful light alcohol that mixes well with many different flavors!
- Keep It Simple
I've been raving about aged rum. Well, this weekend I stopped at the Wine Gallery in Brookline and picked up a bottle of Ron Zacapa Centenario 15 year aged rum, a very fine and affordable ($28) Guatemalan spirit, then went to the trusty Hi-Lo market for a dozen limes, so I could give this excellent ... - The Jasmine
I have my friend Rebecca to thank for a new drink to the repertoire: the Jasmine. It's a surprising, but simple enough, combination of ingredients that a well-stocked basic bar would have: Jasmine Cocktail scant jigger gin 1/2 jigger lemon juice a splash Cointreau a splash Campari She whipped up ... - Alchemist
I’ll admit I’m biased: I miss Triple D’s, the JP townie bar turned biker hangout turned lesbian karaoke joint. As my friend remarked last night, "How Boston is it to take a place that’s fun with an interesting mix of people and replace it with some bland notion of what a ‘big city’ resta... - Time for Aged Rum
With all the summer heat, it's been time for the rum drinks. In particularly, I've grown really fond of aged rum lately. White, golden and dark rums are familiar to most (avoid spiced rum unless you want to bring back your guest's memories of college hangovers past), but aged rum is as different fro... - Cherries
I hate maraschino cherries. Or, rather, I like the look of them sitting plumply in my manhattan, but the waxy candy flavor is offputting and, in my view, undercuts the quality of the booze. Fortunately, it's cherry season right now, and the perfect time to stock up on real cherries. I pit them wit...
- "A dead ringer for John Travolta"
Smirk all you like, ye denizens of New York, San Francisco, London, and all the other cities rich with bars serving nothing but well-crafted cocktails -- but how often do you wind up with a bartender on the front page of one of your city's daily newspapers?
Seattle can be a sleepy place at times, but [...]
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- Table Matters
There are so many new food and drink sites coming online that it's hard to keep up -- while my online reading is mostly oriented toward spirits and cocktail-related blogs and sites (those, and news feeds to satisfy my political junkie side), the world of cocktail blogs has erupted so much over the past year [...]
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- MxMo XXXII: Guilty Pleasures
I'm prone to exaggeration from time to time, but I say with all seriousness that the results of this round of Mixology Monday -- hosted by Stevi at Two at the Most, with the theme Guilty Pleasures -- may truly frighten me. But not for the uppity reasons you might expect from a card-carrying cocktail [...]
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- Whiskyfest
God, I love whiskey.
That shouldn't be surprising to readers of this blog, but I felt the need to point that out while packing for my trip to San Francisco, which will host its second annual Whiskyfest on Friday night.
Created by the good folks at Malt Advocate and now swinging into its second year with the [...]
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- The next Mixology Monday: October 13
We're up to round 32 for Mixology Monday, which takes place this coming Monday, October 13. Hosting this round is Stevi at Two at the Most, and Stevi has chosen Guilty Pleasures as her theme. In her words:
October’s Mixology Monday will be a tribute to our guilty pleasures. Write about that one cocktail that, no [...]
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