• Whoa, Nellie!

    As even the occasional reader of this blog can attest, we generally are a bit circumspect when it comes to newly minted cocktails.  When we…

  • Pegu Club

    The last post on the blog, Intro to Aperol, by Audrey Saunders at Pegu Club, got me thinking about the name sake of that…

  • Intro to Aperol

    B & I were looking through the liquor cabinet in search of inspiration this Sunday and came across our bottle of Aperol.  A quick…

  • The Income Tax Cocktail

    The tax man cometh here at CocktailswithM. And by way of balm to solace our ragged nerves, we have today’s post. After a bit…

  • Brains… Must have brains…

    Even here in this happy oasis of a cocktail blog, one cannot completely escape the inexorable march of time. So, hopefully one of these…

  • The Russell Cocktail

    This is a CocktailswithM first—a cocktail of our own creation.  Normally we stay away from this because 1) in more than a century of…

  • A bitter edge

    This weeks post is a bit of a departure from the usual cocktail recipe and discussion.  Instead I want to discuss something essential to…

  • The Graduate

    A bit of a short post in the continuing tribute to Imbibe Magazine’s quartet of “Simple Cocktails”.  Unlike the High Noon that cleverly paired…

  • High Noon

    High Noon

    My father-in-law, one of the pioneers out Riding the Beer Trail in Oskosh, has a pretty hard and fast rule that a cocktail can’t…

  • Mai Tai Madness

    Well July has been a rather busy one at work.  I know, loyal reader (yah, there probably is only one of you) is shocked…