Drinky Linky: Six Years Of This Place Edition

Happy New Year from the Cocktailians crew to you. And we turn six years old today! Happy blogiversary to us!

Here are some things that have caught our eye lately:

• perhaps appropriate for the date, a look at the science of hangovers;
• over at Serious Eats: Drinks, Michael Dietsch shares his cocktail resolutions for 2014 – in short, learn more about this wonderful stuff we call booze;
• and Andrew Strenio picks his top spirits of 2013;
• Contributors to the great new PUNCH magazine share their cocktail resolutions for 2014 as well;
• and Wyatt Peabody looks at top r(h)ums;
• and Anne Zimmerman tells us about one man's search for the Tom & Jerry of his youth;
• and Roger Kamholz explores nouveau American absinthe;
• Joaquín Simó extols one of my very favorite drinks, the Corpse Reviver No. 2, in Playboy;
• where Jeffrey Morganthaler sings the praises of Audrey Saunders' Old Cuban;
• even so, my friends and I were drinking Honey Fitzes last night;
• despite these good-looking recipes for new cocktails at NYC bars;
• MrBaliHai gives us his original recipe for the Big Mezcalhuna;
• the WSJ jumps on the punch revival, and adds the recipe for Dale DeGroff's tasty Millennium Punch;
• the NYT looks at the distilleries of NYC;
• and had a neat drinks-focused Dining section a few weeks back, highlighting some creative winter cocktails around town;
• and suggesting some drinks for parties;
• and Rosie Schaap spends Christmas at a bar;
• while Robert Simonson drinks at an airport (not to be confused with the cocktails you can make aloft, as tackled by yours truly & Erick Castro);
• and their T Magazine identifies drinks with tea as an emerging trend;
• LeNell brings us a hot tiki drink and a hot Grasshopper for this wintry weekend ahead;
• Rosie Schaap tells WNYC about all sorts of hot spiced wine drinks, from wassail to glühwein to gløgg;
• and paired drinks with folk songs;
• Chuck Cowdery fills us in on some interesting corporate history from the 1980s that I hadn't heard before, involving conglomerates, Age International, and Sazerac;
• Janet Patton examines the commodification of bourbon, in the Lexington Herald-Leader. (The paper's coverage of the bourbon industry is solid and worth a look.)
• Thinkgeek has some nifty flasks. I especially liked the one emblazoned with an ethanol molecule, and the one with the built-in shot glass;
• the Gin Kit from Uncommon Goods is an interesting idea — infuse your own compound gin! — but you could likely roll your own for much cheaper;
• Remember those "Cocktail Collection" neckties from the '80s and '90s, with abstract microscopic photographs of booze under polarized light? Mashable reports that the company is back, as BevShots;
• I put together some more reviews of NYC bars for CLASS magazine, including of Golden Cadillac, Manhattan Cricket Club, Henry, A Liquor Bar in the Hudson Hotel, Trouble's Trust in the New York Palace, Grace, and Play in the Museum of Sex;
• and if you liked Golden Cadillac — I sure did — check Regan Hoffman's invocation of the NYC bar scene, circa 1977, for PUNCH magazine;
• along these lines, Robert Simonson limns the hidden history of the Harvey Wallbanger;
• and tastes some historic spirits;
• In a crime wave, people are making off with Moscow Mule mugs;
• Sku runs down the crazy year in whiskeys;
• and — lucky man he — tastes some Prohibition-era bourbons;
• Atomic Grog has an exhaustive review of Jeff "Beachbum" Berry's new book, Potions of the Caribbean. Can't wait to read it for myself;
• In AFAR, Wayne Curtis tells us about Martinican rhum agricole;
• and delves into barrel aging in The Atlantic;
• Critter Bitters — the cricket-flavored cocktail additive. Hmmph;
• though ginger snap syrup sounds like it's more up my alley;
• craft distilling as punk rock; and
• Chef Edward Lee drinks bourbon around America in a boozy book tour.

Happy New Year, y'all. Let's make 2014 memorable, and remember to drink good things.