• French 75

    The French 75 has bcome something of a New Year’s Day tradition for B & me.  Sadly, it is something of a leftover drink…

  • On naming a cocktail

    B likes grapefruit juice, so I am always on the lookout for a good grapefruit juice based cocktail (see our last post on The…

  • The Blinker

    This is one B and I have been making since we found it in our copy of the original edition of Ted Haigh’s Vintage…

  • The Sazerac

    This cocktail has a lot of things I like.  It’s old. It has Rye, absinthe and screwball ingredients (Peychaud’s bitters).  Oh, and it’s a…

  • Drinking advice for the undead

    First let me say it again.  I love absinthe.  The real stuff. This cocktail comes from a whole family that dates back to the…

  • The Aviation Cocktail

    I’ve been thinking about his one for a while. It started out as something to do with a recently acquired bottle of creme de…

  • The Pink Lady

    The Pink Lady

    This is another one we found in Ted Haigh’s Vintage Spirits and Forgotten Cocktails. In it, he points out that you can go into…

  • The Blackthorn Cocktail

    I was in the mood for something I hadn’t heard of before.  Not new, just new to me.  B was also thinking some thing…

  • The Stinger

    If last week’s post was an afternoon’s light hearted frivolity, then this would be pretty much be the opposite. The is one of B’s…

  • Beachcomber Cocktail

    I was in the mood for something new and frivolous.  Plan 1)  that new Porsche Boxter S.  B did point out, however, that it…