Cocktailians

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  • Drinky Linky: Bad Ideas (and Some Good Ones) Edition

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    Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus another links roundup post so soon after the last one. But there's a lot of stuff that's worth your attention. Including some horrible ideas. We looked at this last time around in brief, chiefly the idea of spiking a Thanksgiving turkey. But, alas, along with all the cool…

  • Drinky Linky: Thanksgiving Edition

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    Happy Thanksgiving from all the Cocktailians to you. I don't have a particular Thanksgiving cocktail to share with you, but I will probably be making Tippecanoe Sparklers tonight after the day job releases me. And, recently I was the lucky recipient of a gift of Pumpkin Spirit from the Great Lakes Distillery in Milwaukee. (Well,…

  • Drinky Linky: Thanksgiving Edition

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    Happy Thanksgiving from all the Cocktailians to you. I don't have a particular Thanksgiving cocktail to share with you, but I will probably be making Tippecanoe Sparklers tonight after the day job releases me. And, recently I was the lucky recipient of a gift of Pumpkin Spirit from the Great Lakes Distillery in Milwaukee. (Well,…

  • Splice the Mainbrace

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    In honor of National Rum Day today: Sailors have long been associated with drinking; the British Royal Navy issued daily rations of hooch to its sailors for centuries. At first, each sailor was issued a gallon of beer or wine a day, but after some storage difficulties, that was changed to a ration of hard…

  • Splice the Mainbrace

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    In honor of National Rum Day today: Sailors have long been associated with drinking; the British Royal Navy issued daily rations of hooch to its sailors for centuries. At first, each sailor was issued a gallon of beer or wine a day, but after some storage difficulties, that was changed to a ration of hard…

  • Drinky Linky: Girding My Liver for Tales Edition

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    A bunch of interesting shiznit from the Web, for your enjoyment and perusal: Eater tracks what it says are the big five cocktail trends of 2010. Really? A lot of these seem like they've been ongoing for a while; The NYT chronicles the cocktail scene in Copenhagen; while Budget Travel does likewise in LA; No…

  • Drinky Linky: Girding My Liver for Tales Edition

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    A bunch of interesting shiznit from the Web, for your enjoyment and perusal: Eater tracks what it says are the big five cocktail trends of 2010. Really? A lot of these seem like they've been ongoing for a while; The NYT chronicles the cocktail scene in Copenhagen; while Budget Travel does likewise in LA; No…

  • Terrible, Terrible (Hopefully Fictional) Drinks

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    My favorite super-secret Internet cult site recently had a thread in which users posted their recipes for horrific-sounding drinks. (Reminiscent of Defective Yeti's marvelous post on "Unpopular Mixed Drinks" a little while ago.) A selection follows: Ginbeerbon One shot of gin and one shot of bourbon in a pint glass with an open bottle of…

  • Terrible, Terrible (Hopefully Fictional) Drinks

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    My favorite super-secret Internet cult site recently had a thread in which users posted their recipes for horrific-sounding drinks. (Reminiscent of Defective Yeti's marvelous post on "Unpopular Mixed Drinks" a little while ago.) A selection follows: Ginbeerbon One shot of gin and one shot of bourbon in a pint glass with an open bottle of…

  • Drinky Linky: Bloomsday (+1) Edition

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    Go Latino!, originally uploaded by Globe Trodden. I know it's really a day when you should be drinking a "good glass of Burgundy" at Davy Byrne's, (What do you mean? It's June 17th. –Ed. (Yeah, but I started writing this post yesterday.) Hmmmph. –Ed.) but here's a roundup of things mixological that I've found interesting…