• You’ll shoot your eye out, kid

    As promised, this is going to be my second (and final for a while) post of festive, holiday cocktails.  Last time we did Dale…

  • Famous Riffs

    I think for the next couple of weeks, we’ll take a bit of a departure from our usual aesthetic and relive a couple our…

  • Negroni

    Last Friday, the lab decided it needed a “spontaneous act of happy hour” at Briana’s house.  She had the comestible well in hand, which…

  • Festive and Fizzy

    B informed me she wanted some thing festive and fizzy this afternoon.  After a bit of mouth-agape monkey-trying-to-solve-a-Rubik’s-cube thinking, she reminded me that she…

  • Emerald

    As college towns go, it’s been my contention that we have long suffered a dearth of suitable drinking establishments.  Well, a couple of weeks…

  • The Widow’s Kiss

    I have to confess that I found this one looking for something with Calvados in it.  In looking at it, it had pretty much…

  • Agricole Daiquiri

    This twist on the classic involves one of my favorite things… quirky booze.  This time it’s rhum agricole.   All rum is originally fermented…

  • Limoncello Fizzy Sangria

    Admittedly “Limoncello Fizzy Sangria” is a bit of a deviation (some might even go as far as deviant) from the usual vintage cocktail vibe…

  • Vieux Carré

    I just realized that it’s been exactly six months since my last post.  Wow.  I knew I had been putting this off a bit,…

  • Mexican Sweet Limes

    Thought I would go with a quick post here. B and I bought a couple of “Mexican Sweet Limes” at the Sacramento Farmers’ Market…