Cocktailians

Author: vidiot

  • Drinky Linky: Getting Back In The Swing Of Things Edition

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    Some other things that've caught my eye lately: Shaker Faces. Heh. (Someone needs to put these side-by-side with Cooking Issues' Skoal! Project); Paul Clarke on the best bourbon cocktails; and of course tomorrow is Derby Day. Fittingly, the mint julep, the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby, just got enshrined in the Cocktail Hall of…

  • Drinky Linky: Getting Back In The Swing Of Things Edition

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    Some other things that've caught my eye lately: Shaker Faces. Heh. (Someone needs to put these side-by-side with Cooking Issues' Skoal! Project); Paul Clarke on the best bourbon cocktails; and of course tomorrow is Derby Day. Fittingly, the mint julep, the official cocktail of the Kentucky Derby, just got enshrined in the Cocktail Hall of…

  • Celebrity Bartender Rachel Maddow

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    Doesn't this sound like fun? From Politico's "Playbook" today: MSNBC’s “THE AFTER PARTY” following Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will feature Rachel Maddow tending bar, mixing Vieux Carres, Primm's Cups, rum daiquiris. The bash at the Mellon Auditorium, the biggest venue ever for an after-party, is being masterminded by Philip Dufour. MSNBC will have…

  • The Falling Water Cocktail Machine.

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    This seems to be the season of the Rube Goldberg device (between this & the latest OK Go video, which is always a harbinger of trends of one kind or another), and here, we have a wall-mounted and appropriately intricate device that produces a greyhound on demand. Extra points for using many of the links…

  • The Falling Water Cocktail Machine.

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    This seems to be the season of the Rube Goldberg device (between this & the latest OK Go video, which is always a harbinger of trends of one kind or another), and here, we have a wall-mounted and appropriately intricate device that produces a greyhound on demand. Extra points for using many of the links…

  • Bootlegger Blues

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    This week's The Moth podcast tells a whirlwind story of how L. Gabrielle Penebaz of The Saint Eve discovered absinthe through her lust for Donald Sutherland, and how her pursuit of just one taste of the real concoction led her to create a short-lived but enthusiastic community of partygoers who wanted the same thing. (Here's a…

  • Bootlegger Blues

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    This week's The Moth podcast tells a whirlwind story of how L. Gabrielle Penebaz of The Saint Eve discovered absinthe through her lust for Donald Sutherland, and how her pursuit of just one taste of the real concoction led her to create a short-lived but enthusiastic community of partygoers who wanted the same thing. (Here's a…

  • MxMo Submission: The Star Cocktail

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    This Mixology Monday was a tough one for me — not because it was difficult to create a new cocktail, or find a sufficiently interesting drink to write about, but rather because the theme was so goshdarned big. How could I narrow it down to just one drink, when there are so many wonderful cocktails…

  • MxMo Submission: The Star Cocktail

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    This Mixology Monday was a tough one for me — not because it was difficult to create a new cocktail, or find a sufficiently interesting drink to write about, but rather because the theme was so goshdarned big. How could I narrow it down to just one drink, when there are so many wonderful cocktails…

  • Announcing MxMo XLIII: Vermouth

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    The intrepid cocktailians participating in Mixology Monday have tackled some interesting things: spice, guilty pleasures, 19th-century cocktails, strong drinks. They've even asserted that vodka is your friend…something that can be a stretch for many cocktail aficionados. Well, it enjoys a somewhat better reputation among the cocktailian cognoscenti than it does among the greater public, but…